[HTML][HTML] The neuroscience of active learning and direct instruction

JM Dubinsky, AA Hamid - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Throughout the educational system, students experiencing active learning pedagogy
perform better and fail less than those taught through direct instruction. Can this be ascribed …

The neural basis of humour processing

P Vrticka, JM Black, AL Reiss - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2013 - nature.com
Humour is a vital component of human socio-affective and cognitive functioning. Recent
advances in neuroscience have enabled researchers to explore this human attribute in …

[LIBRO][B] iDisorder: Understanding our obsession with technology and overcoming its hold on us

LD Rosen, NA Cheever, LM Carrier - 2012 - books.google.com
iDisorder: changes to your brain's ability to process information and your ability to relate to
the world due to your daily use of media and technology resulting in signs and symptoms of …

[PDF][PDF] Humor recognition and humor anchor extraction

D Yang, A Lavie, C Dyer, E Hovy - Proceedings of the 2015 …, 2015 - aclanthology.org
Humor is an essential component in personal communication. How to create computational
models to discover the structures behind humor, recognize humor and even extract humor …

Lack of selectivity for syntax relative to word meanings throughout the language network

E Fedorenko, IA Blank, M Siegelman, Z Mineroff - Cognition, 2020 - Elsevier
To understand what you are reading now, your mind retrieves the meanings of words and
constructions from a linguistic knowledge store (lexico-semantic processing) and identifies …

Collecting diverse natural language inference problems for sentence representation evaluation

A Poliak, A Haldar, R Rudinger, JE Hu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
We present a large-scale collection of diverse natural language inference (NLI) datasets that
help provide insight into how well a sentence representation captures distinct types of …

Therapeutic clowns in pediatrics: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

K Sridharan, G Sivaramakrishnan - European journal of pediatrics, 2016 - Springer
Children and/or their parents are in fear and anxiety when admitted to hospitals or undergo
invasive surgeries or investigations. Clown therapy has been shown as an effective …

Listening under difficult conditions: An activation likelihood estimation meta‐analysis

C Alain, Y Du, LJ Bernstein, T Barten… - Human brain …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The brain networks supporting speech identification and comprehension under difficult
listening conditions are not well specified. The networks hypothesized to underlie effortful …

Settling into semantic space: An ambiguity-focused account of word-meaning access

JM Rodd - Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Most words are ambiguous: Individual word forms (eg, run) can map onto multiple different
interpretations depending on their sentence context (eg, the athlete/politician/river runs) …

Localising semantic and syntactic processing in spoken and written language comprehension: An Activation Likelihood Estimation meta-analysis

JM Rodd, S Vitello, AM Woollams, P Adank - Brain and language, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract We conducted an Activation Likelihood Estimation (ALE) meta-analysis to identify
brain regions that are recruited by linguistic stimuli requiring relatively demanding semantic …