Parsing

In the research article “Top-Down Processes Override Bottom-Up Interference in the Flanker Task,” written by Rotem Avital-Cohen and Yehoshua Tsal, it is explained that top down processing is key to being successful in the flanker task. Avital-Cohen and Tsal hypothesized the probability that the brain uses top-down processing when dealing with various distractors, which are stimuli different than what participants are supposed to be paying attention to. These experiments provide evidence to a variety of subsets of top-down processing. Using the topics learned in lecture, it is easy to comprehend the data within the article. Looking at both of the experiments in the article, our understanding of top-down processing can be enhanced, particularly in regards to context effects, such as ambiguous letters and out of context objects. The flanker test is done by taking a letter that is made ambiguous with another number, such as the “S-5” combination and the “O-0” combination, and flanking them with various other numbers or letters. In the first experiment, participants were told to hit the left “ctrl” key if they saw the letter “S” and to hit the right “ctrl.” In 75 percent of the trials, the letters were surrounded by the unambiguous characters “A,” “F,” “L,” “3,” “4,” and “6.” When surrounded by a letter, the ambiguous character was viewed as a letter, and vice versa when surrounded with numbers. However, 25 percent of the trials had one ambiguous letter surrounded by the…

Pre-listening: I introduce a children’s story, L. Frank Baum (1900). The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Then, I explain the meanings of some words which students might not know. Knowing words’ meaning before listening to the story helps students to understand what the speaker is saying. I need to explain about ‘bottom-up parsing’ and ‘top-down parsing’ because “effective L2 learners used both top-sown strategies listening for intonation or phrases and bottom-up strategies listening for words, while…

.4 Basics of Gestures Gesture is the use of nonverbal communication in between the humans or to any other creatures. This kind of communication uses different part of the body such as hand, head, the lips and etc. Those body parts are used to convey messages nonverbally. Basically, for gesture recognitions that are used in the digital world, it can be categorized into three different areas which are voice gesture recognition, facial gesture recognition and hand gesture recognition. 2.4.1 Voice…

has debunked this myth with the simple fact that for computers “the hard problems are easy and the easy problems are hard” (191). For example, a simple question like “Do zebras wear underwear?” can confuse the computer. This suggests that the computers could eventually successfully replace the harder jobs like engineering rather than the more simple jobs like a receptionist. Pinker goes into more depth on why this is throughout the chapter. Pinker begins by how we process syntax. We understand…

globally. Globalization is not a current phenomenon, but it was started thousands and thousands of years ago. The history of the Silk Road, which connects Asia and Europe as well as Renaissance, Enlightenment, and Industrial Revolutions, is the early steps of globalization. However, some critics claims that globalization is westernization and imperialism, moreover they claimed that globalization started from the west and then expanded into the eastern region of the world. This essay will…

11, 2017 Scenario – PDF parsers An application needs to be developed for parsing PDFs, and potentially performing optical character recognition (OCR) in case of non-searchable PDFs. For searchable PDFs, an open source tool called Apache PDFBox is available, while for non-searchable PDFs, depending on quality requirements, OCR needs to be performed by going to a paid Google Vision API or using open-source tools like Tesseract. A strategy pattern based solution Figure 3 - Strategy…

“The Secret to Raising Smart Kids” (Dweck. 2015) inspires me to reassess my teaching style as a teacher and a parent. Positive reinforcement can be very helpful to boost a student’s morale, but parsing, if not done properly, can be detrimental to student’s mental development (Dweck.2015) Every child is different with his or her unique talents and capabilities. As explained by Howard Gardner’s “Theory of Multiple Intelligences” , “We all exhibit different profile of intelligence and these are…

The seven authentic letters of Ignatius, bishop of Antioch (ca. 110 CE), provide some of the earliest insight into the theology, organization and worship, internecine struggles, and epistolary practices of the primitive Church outside of the New Testament. ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΑΙ ΙΓΝΑΤΙΟΥ: The Letters of Ignatius is a unique tool that assists those with an intermediate level of Koine Greek in reading these valuable epistles. Using the text of Kirsopp Lake’s 1919 edition of The Apostolic Fathers, ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΑΙ…

educators don’t agree with the idea that all children have the ability to learn in the same way at the exact same time of their life. In a traditional school, a child will be taught the same maths as the other youngsters in the room whereas in the Montessori school, we try to observe each child and question ourselves about what the child understand, what helps them to learn and how we can make it easier and more enjoyable for them to learn. We also take each child’s interest and see how we can…

Face’ is one of my personal favorites from this collection because of it’s interesting, vibrant characters. Guffey takes a new twist on the witch archetype, making the story original yet classic. Moreover, I loved the intricate details Guffey wove into all his stories. Guffey created fully fleshed out environments and settings, complementing his characters beautifully and vitalizing his narratives. I had very few problems with this book. Overall, The People Up The Holler is an incredibly…