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Washington & Jefferson College
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About: Washington & Jefferson College is a education organization based out in Washington, Pennsylvania, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Tensor. The organization has 248 authors who have published 360 publications receiving 10225 citations. The organization is also known as: Collegium Washingtoniense et Jeffersoniense & W & J College.
Topics: Population, Tensor, Creativity, Chemical shift, Cognitive development
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TL;DR: Oak bark out-performed the other chars and nearly mimicked Calgon F-400 adsorption for lead and cadmium, and the oak bark char's ability to remove Pb(II) and Cd( II) is remarkable when considered in terms of the amount of metal adsorbed per unit surface area.
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TL;DR: The results suggest that representation of information about human faces by young infants may be influenced by the gender of the primary caregiver.
Abstract: Six experiments based on visual preference procedures were conducted to examine gender categorization of female versus male faces by infants aged 3 to 4 months. In experiment 1, infants familiarized with male faces preferred a female face over a novel male face, but infants familiarized with female faces divided their attention between a male face and a novel female face. Experiment 2 demonstrated that these asymmetrical categorization results were likely due to a spontaneous preference for females. Experiments 3 and 4 showed that the preference for females was based on processing of the internal facial features in their upright orientation, and not the result of external hair cues or higher-contrast internal facial features. While experiments 1 through 4 were conducted with infants reared with female primary caregivers, experiment 5 provided evidence that infants reared with male primary caregivers tend to show a spontaneous preference for males. Experiment 6 showed that infants reared with female primary caregivers displayed recognition memory for individual females, but not males. These results suggest that representation of information about human faces by young infants may be influenced by the gender of the primary caregiver.
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TL;DR: The paired-preference procedure was used in a series of experiments to explore the abilities of infants aged 3 and 4 months to categorize photographic exemplars from natural (adult-defined) basic-level categories and revealed that infants could form categorical representations for dogs and cats that excluded birds.
Abstract: The paired-preference procedure was used in a series of experiments to explore the abilities of infants aged 3 and 4 months to categorize photographic exemplars from natural (adult-defined) basic-level categories. The question of whether the categorical representations that were evidenced excluded members of a related, perceptually similar category was also investigated. Experiments 1–3 revealed that infants could form categorical representations for dogs and cats that excluded birds. Experiment 4 showed that the representation for cats also excluded dogs, but that the representation for dogs did not exclude cats. However, a supplementary experiment showed that the representation for dogs did exclude cats when the variability of the dog exemplars was reduced to match that of the cat exemplars. The results are discussed in terms of abilities necessary for the formation of more complex categorical representations.
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TL;DR: It was found that categorical representations could be formed for horses that excluded cats, zebras, and giraffes, and for cats that excluded horses and tigers but not female lions.
Abstract: A series of experiments examined the abilities of 3- and 4-month-old infants to form categorical representations to exemplars of natural kinds--cats and horses. These experiments also permitted assessment of the relative exclusivity of these representations--the extent to which they exclude exemplars from contrasting basic-level categories from the same superordinate category. We found that categorical representations could be formed for horses that excluded cats, zebras, and giraffes, and for cats that excluded horses and tigers but not female lions. Lions were, however, excluded from the representations of cats in 6- and 7-month-old infants. Evidence was also obtained for 2 a priori preferences for members of one category over another. The discussion examined the roles of similarity between the exemplars of the contrasting categories and those of the tested category on estimates of exclusivity and of spontaneous preferences on the formation and exclusivity of categorical representations.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Paul C. Quinn | 53 | 210 | 10058 |
Murray Sidman | 52 | 118 | 13913 |
Madeleine M. Joullié | 41 | 377 | 6434 |
Gary A. Silverman | 41 | 131 | 12186 |
M. E. McCracken | 25 | 60 | 1914 |
Jelena M. Janjic | 20 | 63 | 1865 |
Peter Ludlow | 18 | 48 | 1239 |
Robbie J. Iuliucci | 17 | 35 | 924 |
Gregory Hallenbeck | 17 | 25 | 2196 |
Jonathan Gottschall | 15 | 29 | 1210 |
James G. March | 15 | 18 | 1340 |
Taylor Eddens | 13 | 28 | 674 |
Robert C. Litchfield | 12 | 21 | 491 |
Cody L. Hoop | 12 | 28 | 752 |
Thomas A. Contreras | 12 | 15 | 1244 |