383 research outputs found
Lack of semantic parafoveal preview benefit in reading revisited
No full textIn contrast to earlier research, evidence for semantic preview benefit in reading has been reported by Hohenstein and Kliegl (Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 40, 166–190, 2013) in an alphabetic writing system; they also implied that prior demonstrations of lack of a semantic preview benefit needed to be reexamined. In the present article, we report a rather direct replication of an experiment reported by Rayner, Balota, and Pollatsek (Canadian Journal of Psychology, 40, 473–483, 1986). Using the gaze-contingent boundary paradigm, subjects read sentences that contained a target word (razor), but different preview words were initially presented in the sentence. The preview was identical to the target word (i.e., razor), semantically related to the target word (i.e., blade), semantically unrelated to the target word (i.e., sweet), or a visually similar nonword (i.e., razar). When the reader’s eyes crossed an invisible boundary location just to the left of the target word location, the preview changed to the target word. Like Rayner et al. (Canadian Journal of Psychology, 40, 473–483, 1986), we found that fixations on the target word were significantly shorter in the identical condition than in the unrelated condition, which did not differ from the semantically related condition; when an orthographically similar preview had been initially present in the sentence, fixations were shorter than when a semantically unrelated preview had been present. Thus, the present experiment replicates the earlier data reported by Rayner et al. (Canadian Journal of Psychology, 40, 473–483, 1986), indicating evidence for an orthographic preview benefit but a lack of semantic preview benefit in reading English
The design strategy and methodology of the RAPID-MOC project moorings
No full textThe use of scientific moorings is a long established method for obtaining timeseries data from the ocean, and they are often deployed for long periods at a time - sometimes for many years. As many moored instruments log data internally and are unable to transfer them to shore, moorings must be recovered for the data to be downloaded. Scientists therefore rely on not only the mooring collecting data as planned, but also the hardware surviving the deployment period. It is important to be able to predict mooring behaviour when subjected to environmental conditions at the site to ensure that they will be able to perform the required scientific tasks, such as collecting measurements at the correct depths. This paper presents the design strategy used by the Natural Environment Research Council's Rapid Climate Change Meridional Overturning Circulation (RAPID MOC) project. It discusses how the designs have evolved during subsequent deployments to improve the quality of the data collected and to reduce the risk of instrument and data loss impacting on the scientific objectives of the project
Rayner Whitely - 02
No full textPhotograph - Rayner Whitley's house being moved three miles east of Colinton, Alberta. The house is on a flatbed pulled by a truc
Contributions to the History of Psychology: LIX. Rosalie Rayner Watson: The Mother of a Behaviorist's Sons
No full text Rosalie Rayner Watson (1899–1936), John Watson's second wife, assisted her husband in the development of applied behavioral psychology. Not only did Rayner Watson co-author the seminal paper on conditioned emotional reactions, she also assisted Watson in preparing the most popular child care book of the time. Curiously, in the only article under her sole authorship, Rayner Watson described behaviorism in the home somewhat negatively. </jats:p
Publishing Tolkien
No full textDuring the last thirty years of the Professor’s life, but especially towards the end, Rayner Unwin met, talked with, and worked for, J.R.R. Tolkien. It was a business relationship between author and publisher, but increasingly it became a trusting friendship as well. In an ideal world authors and publishers should always act in partnership. This certainly happened between Professor Tolkien and George Allen & Unwin, but in some respects, the speaker explains, the collaboration had very unusual features
Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation slowdown cooled the subtropical ocean
No full textObservations show that the upper 2 km of the subtropical North Atlantic Ocean cooled throughout 2010 and remained cold until at least December 2011. We show that these cold anomalies are partly driven by anomalous air-sea exchange during the cold winters of 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 and, more surprisingly, by extreme interannual variability in the ocean's northward heat transport at 26.5°N. This cooling driven by the ocean's meridional heat transport affects deeper layers isolated from the atmosphere on annual timescales and water that is entrained into the winter mixed layer thus lowering winter sea surface temperatures. Here we connect, for the first time, variability in the northward heat transport carried by the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation to widespread sustained cooling of the subtropical North Atlantic, challenging the prevailing view that the ocean plays a passive role in the coupled ocean-atmosphere system on monthly-to-seasonal timescales
Beyond the Rockton Window: remembering author and painter Helen Haenke, 19 Mar 2017
No full textA talented artist and writer of poetry, plays and prose, Helen Haenke was an influential figure in Ipswich from the 1940s to 1978. The family's historic house Rockton was her creative sanctuary. The panel discussion around the works and life of Helen Haenke was led by UQ Honorary Senior Research Fellow Bronwen Levy, with Helen's daughter Margot Rayner and local Ipswich resident and drama teacher Helen Pullar. Introdcution by Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Alan Rix. UQ Press released an anthology of Helen Haenke's work, Helen Haenke at Rockton - A creative life, which was on sale at the event. This event was supported by Ipswich City Council, University of Queensland Library, Ipswich Poetry Feast and University of Queensland Press
Author reply to Hettiarachchi et al. (re Helicobacter pylori resistance in Australia…)
No full textLetter to the EditorJonathon P. Schubert, Paul R. Ingram, Morgyn S. Warner, Christopher K. Rayner, Ian C. Roberts-Thomson, Samuel P. Costello and Robert V. Bryan
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