@GernsbacherLAB

Vilas Research Professor & Sir Frederic Bartlett Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, researching cognitive neuroscience, human attention & communication

 Madison, WI
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Joined August 2010
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Here’s everything you need to mount a semester-long course to improve scholarly communication gernsbacherlab.org/wp-conten…
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Who of my brilliant ML (machine learning) colleagues wants to improve the world by building a re-scam bot (rescam.org/) to "engage" scam journals?
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Replying to @autistichoya
Here's empirical evidence against such euphemisms cognitiveresearchjournal.spr… & blog post blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-h…

“Special needs” is an ineffective euphemism

Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications - Although euphemisms are intended to put a more positive spin on the words they replace, some euphemisms are ineffective. Our study examined the...

link.springer.com
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Our recent study demonstrates that “special needs” is an ineffective euphemism (and probably should not be used) cognitiveresearchjournal.spr…

“Special needs” is an ineffective euphemism

Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications - Although euphemisms are intended to put a more positive spin on the words they replace, some euphemisms are ineffective. Our study examined the...

link.springer.com
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Thank you for reading our article. I too love MOM-nos's description of Bud's echolalia.
Historical #BringOutYerNulls: No effect on word recognition of concreteness, no. of meanings, or letter frequency ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…

Resolving 20 Years of Inconsistent Interactions Between Lexical Familiarity and Orthography,...

Numerous word recognition studies conducted over the past 2 decades are examined. These studies manipulated lexical familiarity by presenting words of high versus low printed frequency and most...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Is the life-long production-comprehension lag reduced or even reversed in autistic language development? No. arjournals.annualreviews.org…
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Is pronoun reversal (e.g., using 'you' when 'I' is intended) unique to autistic language development? No. arjournals.annualreviews.org…
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Is echolalia (repeating what someone has said) unique to autistic language development? Nope. arjournals.annualreviews.org…
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cc: @USAScienceFest @aquinastars
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Thanks @USAScienceFest for the fun I had talking to 150 amazing @aquinastars middle-schoolers about #DiverseBrains gernsbacherlab.org/wp-conten…
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@hpashler @ceptional Sounds like dual-coding to me (2 consistent modalities trump 1). Also why video captions help gernsbacherlab.org/wp-conten…
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Scientists’ measurement of, society’s responsibility to, and individuals’ benefit from accepting #DiverseBrains gernsbacherlab.org/wp-conten…
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The science is clear: Everyone should have access to and use video #captions. gernsbacherlab.org/wp-conten… #Deaf #ESL
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When millennials tell me they’re better multi-taskers than their grandparents, I suggest they try cooking a complete Thanksgiving dinner.
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@UWMadison18 Jul 2015
Shelf cloud above, @LakeMendota below. Holy cow. (via bit.ly/kirbywright) #wiwx
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Parallel to Sam Smith’s “you broke my heart but I got four Grammys” shout out in a scientific article acknowledgement
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I’m having a ball teaching my new @UWMadison course, “Psychological Effects of the Internet.” Here's the syllabus: gernsbacherlab.org/wp-conten…
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And the 60s (I can vouch) RT @HistoryInPics Kids, this is how we texted in the 80s
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