Neuroscience
Interesting article in the May 2005 issue of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology on linguistics & answering reference questions. Hampshire doesn't have access to the full-text online, but you can read the citation & abstract at the Wiley / JASIST home page. I was able to download the pdf without paying, so maybe it's free!
A linguistic analysis of question taxonomies.
Jeffrey Pomerantz Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Volume 56, Issue 7, Pages 715 - 728.
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Neuroscience
Linguistics & Reference Questions
Interesting article in the May 2005 issue of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology on linguistics & answering reference questions. Hampshire doesn't have access to the full-text online, but you can read the citation & abstract at the Wiley / JASIST home page. I was able to download the pdf without paying, so maybe it's free!
A linguistic analysis of question taxonomies.
Jeffrey Pomerantz Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Volume 56, Issue 7, Pages 715 - 728.
- Google Scholar & You
Here are answers to some Frequently Asked Questions about Google Scholar. I often get asked what I think about Google Scholar, so I wrote a post on my library's blog in response -- and have referred several students to it. I figured it was worth sharing...
- Seniors & Medical Information
Read an interesting article yesterday from JASIS&T which covered usability for seniors in two domains: first, the article talks about how seniors get information about drugs, and then it talks about how they look for information about drugs within...
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An odd bit of indexing news regarding the New Yorker article on linguistics. As you can tell from my post, and certainly from the article itself, it's primarily about linguistics and language. It's also tangentially about Christianity, as Everett...
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Here are three articles "my" faculty in Communication Sciences at UConn recently published. If you have access to Academic Search Premier, you can see the full abstract. "Contextual Features of Violent Video Games, Mental Models, and Aggression." By:...
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Have you seen the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas yet? Very impressive! The new edition is 6 volumes (compared with 4) and has some very topical and cognitive entries. There are several having to do with consciousness, the philosophers among you...