This post is a scholarly addendum to today’s main post, aimed to satisfy the curiosity of my academic readers. I’m going to leave you with an excerpt from an excellent book chapter, “Repetition and Reuse in Child Language Learning,” by Colin Bannard and Elena Lieven. The two take up the question of why Zipfian distributions [...]... Simon, H.A. (1955) On a class
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September 6, 2010
Why are Zipfian distributions found in language?
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June 1, 2010
How does the human brain memorize a sound?
Sound repetition allows us to memorize complex sounds in a very quick, effective and durable way. According to new research, this form of auditory learning is believed to occur in daily life to help us identify and memorize sound patterns; it allows, for example, immediate recognition of sounds which become familiar through experience, such as the voice of relatives. The same mechanism is involve
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June 23, 2009
Schizophrenic’s Automatic Pilot Still Works
But the processing of new information causes problems. Phoning someone whilst driving to work without having to think about it. After plenty of practice, people can do a lot of things on automatic pilot and simultaneously. However, for people with schizophrenia that is a different story. Researchers investigated whether a disruption to the automation process, learning by repetition to do somethin
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