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Involvement of the neural social behaviour network during social information acquisition in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)
Involvement of the neural social behaviour network during social information acquisition in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)
Download2022-01-01
Lauren M. Guillette, Tas Vámos, Susan D. Healy, Simone L. Meddle
Female zebra finches Taeniopygia guttata will copy the novel foraging choice of males. The degree to which they do so, however, can vary considerably. Among-individual differences in social learning and their underlying neural pathways have received relatively little attention and remain poorly...
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LaDEC: Large database of English compounds
2019-06-24
Gagne, Christina, Spalding, Thomas, Schmidtke, Daniel, , Gagné, Christina L.
The Large Database of English Compounds (LADEC) consists of over 8000 English words that can be parsed into two constituents that are free morphemes. This file contains compounds formed from 3-10 letter long bases. All items are listed in Wordnet as Nouns. The database contains a number of...
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LADEC_SemanticTransparency-FactorAnalysis
2020-07-23
Gagné, Christina, Auch, Leah, Spalding, Thomas
This entry contains the data and Stata analyses files for Auch, L., Gagné, C. L., & Spalding T. L. (In press). Conceptualizing semantic transparency: A systematic analysis of semantic transparency measures in English compound words. Methods in Psychology. The article is Open Access.
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1997-01-01
If speech-language pathologists are to identify bilingual children in need of intervention, it is essential to understand the normal variations of bilingual acquisition and how it is the same or different from monolingual development. In this paper, we present an overview of the basics of...
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Large Database of English Pseudo-compounds (LaDEP)
2023-07-18
Pérez Cruz, Karen, Auch, Leah, Gagne, Christina, Spalding, Thomas, Gagné, Christina
The Large Database of English Pseudo-compounds (LaDEP) contains nearly 7,500 English words which mimic, but do not truly possess, a compound morphemic structure. These pseudo-compounds can be parsed into two free morpheme constituents (e.g., car-pet), but neither constituent functions as a...
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Learning about construction behaviour from observing an artefact: can experience with conspecifics aid in artefact recognition?
Learning about construction behaviour from observing an artefact: can experience with conspecifics aid in artefact recognition?
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Observation of or interaction with the enduring products of behaviour, called ‘social artefacts’ (e.g. an abandoned nest) are a potential source of social information. To learn from an artefact, that artefact needs to be recognized as the product of a behaviour that can provide relevant...
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Learning from authoritarian teachers: Controlling the situation or controlling yourself can sustain motivation
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Chaffee, Kathryn E., Noels, Kimberly A., Sugita McEown, Maya
Positive psychology encompasses the study of positive outcomes, optimal functioning, and resilience in difficult circumstances. In the context of language learning, positive outcomes include academic engagement, self-determined motivation, persistence in language learning, and eventually becoming...
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Matlab code demonstrating how to calculate the homing error, position error, and heading error using the replaced O, X1 to X4.
Matlab code demonstrating how to calculate the homing error, position error, and heading error using the replaced O, X1 to X4.
Download2018-06-12
This method was developed and used in the following articles. Mou, W., & Zhang, L. (2014). Dissociating position and heading estimations: Rotated visual orientation cues perceived after walking reset headings but not positions. Cognition, 133(3), 553-571. Zhang, L., & Mou, W. (2017). Piloting...