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Nostalgic correspondence and James Boswell's Scottish malady.
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In February 1763 the young James Boswell, then in London, dined with his friends Andrew Erskine and Thomas Sheridan. The conversation turned to the poetry of Ossian, who recently had been "discovered" in the Scottish Highlands by another acquaintance of Boswell's, James Macpherson. Sheridan, never shy with an extravagant opinion, asserted that Ossian was perhaps the greatest poet in the world since he "excelled Homer in the Sublime and Virgil in the Pathetic," and concluded that the poems Macpherson had found "give us great light into the history of mankind. We could not ...
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Conjunction benefits and costs reveal decision priming for first-order and second-order features
Magazine article from: Perception and Psychophysics
; ...priming was examined for conjunctions composed of first-order...indicating the presence of a conjunction were faster than those for...discrimination was slowest (conjunction benefits). Also, responses indicating the absence of a conjunction were delayed if one of the...
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Memory conjunction errors for realistic faces are consistent with configural processing
Magazine article from: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
; ...old = FA to conjunctions). Memory conjunction errors (Reinitz...in memory conjunction errors for...observed using conjunctions made of the...FAs) to conjunctions have been...cases, the conjunction condition...
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Elaborative processing and conjunction errors in recognition memory
Magazine article from: Memory & Cognition
; ...processing at encoding on recognition memory conjunction lure errors. In these experiments...exact form (old) or recombined to form conjunction lures on the recognition test. Participants...recall-to-reject processing and conjunction lure familiarity increased with both...
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The memory conjunction error paradigm: Normative data for conjunction triplets
Magazine article from: Behavior Research Methods
; In the typical memory conjunction experiment, participants are presented...are later recombined to form a "conjunction lure" (e.g., blackbird...which normative data for 96 memory conjunction triplets are presented. The first...
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Measurement of the conjunction error in social judgment: answer choice and answer justification.(Report)
Magazine article from: Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal
; ...basic principle of probability is the conjunction rule, P (A & B) [less than...individual elements which comprise the conjunction. However, when judging the probability...demonstrate what has been referred to as the conjunction fallacy (Tversky & Kahneman...
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Sentence Conjunctions in the Gospel of Matthew
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
; ...begin with a conjunction that serves...then surely conjunctions must form...analyzing conjunctions Black looks...how each conjunction works in...available conjunctions (Barthes...is a given conjunction doing in...
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Metamemorial influences in recognition memory: Pictorial encoding reduces conjunction errors
Magazine article from: Memory & Cognition
; ...amp; Racine, 1999) on rates of conjunction errors as a function of encoding condition...demonstrate a reliable reduction of conjunction errors when participants study pictures...study phase is important for reducing conjunction errors. Collectively, the experiments...
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When false recognition is out of control: The case of facial conjunctions
Magazine article from: Memory & Cognition
; ...confidence, a recognition error to conjunction lure faces (each a reconfiguration...effort to temper recognition errors for conjunction or feature lure faces. A single process...sole process underlying recognition of conjunction and feature faces, and familiarity...
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Conjunction should be quite a show
Newspaper article from: Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA
; ...many planetary conjunctions, but only a few...The upcoming conjunction of Venus and Jupiter...separate the two. A conjunction is when two or...other in the sky. Conjunctions can involve planets...it does Venus. Conjunctions of Venus and Jupiter...close observable conjunction between ...
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Feature and conjunction effects in recognition memory: Toward specifying familiarity for compound words
Magazine article from: Memory & Cognition
; ...familiarity in the production of feature and conjunction errors with both word (Experiments...information in leading to feature and conjunction errors across Experiments 1 and 2...based interpretation of feature and conjunction errors and a lexical morpheme basis...
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