Resources

  

Selected Media

  

• Brains of Elderly Slow Because They Know So Much. The Telegraph. January 2014.

    

• The Myth of Age-Related Cognitive Decline. Psychology Today. January 2014.

    

• Why Johnny Can't Name His Colors. Scientific American Mind. July 2010. [ebook]

    

• The Advantages of Being Helpless. Scientific American Mind. February 2010. [French]

    

The mind unchecked: Is a toddler's lack of self-control key to early learning? Los Angeles Times. December 2009.

  

• Your kids can't say no to candy? Blame it on their brains. US News & World Reports. November 2009.

    

Research Blogging

  

• Too much information. Language Log. January 2014.

    

• The sneakiness of self-consciousness. Language Log. February 2011.

    

• Helping children understand number: It's all in the way we speak to them. Science Daily. October 2010. [Spanish]

    

• A thinking machine: On metaphors for mind. Child's Play. August 2010.

    

• A case for the distractible toddler. We're Only Human [APS Blog]. November 2009.

    

• Smart babies. Frontal Cortex [Wired Blog]. July 2010.

  

Notable Mentions

  

[American Scientist] [Atlantic Monthly] [Discover] [Mind Hacks] [Stanford Daily] [Big Think] [3QuarksDaily]

  

  

• NDL Package for R
  Naive Discriminative Learning package implements learning and classification models based on the Rescorla-Wagner equations and their equilibrium equations.

  

• Corpus of Contemporary American English
  The freely-searchable 425 million word Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is the largest corpus of American English currently available, and the only publicly-available corpus of American English to contain a wide array of texts from a number of genres.