Serial list linking by macaques: List position influences

A new free-list measure of cognitive salience, B′, is presented, which includes both list position and list frequency. It surpasses other extant measures by being normed to vary between a maximum of 1 and a minimum of 0, thereby making it useful for comparisons irrespective of list length or number of respondents. An illustration of its properties, uses, and computation is provided with the aid of examples drawn from free lists of foods elicited from a sample of migrants from the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

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Visual Serial-List Learning in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

10.17918/etd-4257 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Ariana Tart-Zelvin

Keyword(s):

Temporal Lobe Epilepsy ◽

Temporal Lobe ◽

Serial List ◽

List Learning

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The Netherlands

10.1093/oso/9780198849063.003.0029 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 594-612

Author(s):

Simon Otjes ◽

Tom Louwerse

Keyword(s):

The Netherlands ◽

Empirical Analysis ◽

Individual Autonomy ◽

Board Members ◽

List Position ◽

Paradoxical Situation ◽

Party Dominance ◽

Member Of Parliament

Speechmaking in the Dutch parliament is characterized by party dominance and individual autonomy. This paradoxical situation can be understood from the perspective of specialization: every Member of Parliament acts as a spokesperson on a specific issue for their party. Therefore, usually, only one MP per party participates in a debate. Within their policy portfolio, MPs enjoy considerable autonomy, in particular in deciding whether to participate in a debate and what to say. The leadership does not decide for each debate whether or not to delegate speaking time to individual MPs, but rather at the beginning of the parliamentary term when the portfolios are assigned. An empirical analysis of debate participation and the number of words spoken shows that these are most strongly related to electoral list position and seniority. PPG leaders speak longer than other MPs, but we observe no such effect for committee chairs or PPG board members.

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The transposition replacement policy with a partial memory

Journal of Applied Probability ◽

10.1017/s0021900200037281 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 19 (03) ◽

pp. 733-736 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Peter R. Nelson

Keyword(s):

Replacement Policy ◽

Serial List ◽

Left Hand ◽

Average Position

Consider as a model for any serial list a bookshelf with books B 1, ···, Bn. At each unit of time book is demanded with probability pi and is replaced one position to the left of where it was removed (or in the same position if it is already at the left-hand end). If this transposition is made only when Bi has been demanded k times in a row, we show that the average position of the next book demanded is a monotone decreasing function of k.

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