The Animate and The Inanimate

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Paivio, A. (2007). Mind and its evolution: A dual coding theoretical approach. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. In Spanish, the preposition a (meaning "to" or "at") has gained a second role as a marker of concrete animate direct objects:

Zehrer, Klaus Cäsar (2017). Das Genie (in German). Zürich: Diogenes Verlag. ISBN 978-3-257-06998-3. It might be asked whether the animacy effect was driven by congruity. For instance, it could be that individuals relied on the animate category to make decisions about the category the item belonged to (e.g., “is this a living thing?”) and to cue performance during retrieval. However, we do not think the congruency account likely because the participants were instructed to decide whether a given word referred to an animate or an inanimate thing, each decision requiring a specific response, pressing a different key. It is important to stress that the participants were given a brief explanation about what is meant by animate and inanimate before starting the categorization task. Thus, the animate category was not defined in a more positive way than the inanimate category. This was also the case in VanArsdall et al.’s ( 2013) study in which the participants had to use a six-point scale anchored at one end by an object and at the other by a living thing. Moreover, the animacy effect was replicated many times with intentional learning in that study, in which attention was not drawn to the animacy dimension. Sidis's upbringing emphasized intellectual pursuits at the expense of other qualities. In 1909, The New York Times derisively portrayed Sidis as "a wonderfully successful result of a scientific forcing experiment". [5] His mother maintained that newspaper accounts of her son bore little resemblance to him. Montour, Kathleen (April 1977). "William James Sidis, the broken twig". American Psychologist. 32 (4): 265–279. doi: 10.1037/0003-066X.32.4.265.Sidis, William James (1926). Notes on the Collection of Transfers . Retrieved May 25, 2011– via Sidis.net. Nairne, J. S., & Pandeirada, J. N. S. (2010a). Adaptive memory: Ancestral priorities and the mnemonic value of survival processing. Cognitive Psychology, 61, 1–22. doi: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2010.01.005 The pictures corresponding to the words used in Experiment 1 were used. They were taken from two databases (Bonin et al., 2003b; Snodgrass & Vanderwart, 1980). In addition to the controls described in Experiment 1, animate and inanimate stimuli were also matched on variables pertaining to the pictures. Thus, the name agreement, image agreement, and visual complexity of the pictures were controlled for (see Table 1). Name agreement is the degree to which individuals agree on a name for a particular pictured object. One widely used measure is the percentage of participants who provide the most common name. Image agreement is the degree to which the mental images formed by participants in response to an object name match the object’s appearance; it is measured using a Likert scale. The visual complexity of pictures involves the number of lines and details in the drawing. Participants rate the degree of visual complexity of each picture on a 5-point scale, ranging from 1 for a visually simple picture to 5 for a visually very complex picture. Apparatus

Howe, M. L., & Otgaar, H. (2013). Proximate mechanisms and the development of adaptive memory. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 22, 16–22. doi: 10.1177/0963721412469397 Paivio, A., & Csapo, K. (1973). Picture superiority in free recall: Imagery or dual coding? Cognitive Psychology, 5, 176–206. doi: 10.1016/0010-0285(73)90032-7 a b c d e f g Klenin, Emily (1983). Animacy in Russian: a new interpretation. Columbus, OH: Slavica Publishers. After a group of Harvard students physically threatened Sidis, his parents secured him a job at the William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Letters, Science, and Art (now Rice University) in Houston, Texas, as a mathematics teaching assistant. He arrived at Rice in December 1915 at age 17. He was a graduate fellow working toward his doctorate. Snodgrass, J. C., & Vanderwart, M. (1980). A standardized set of 260 pictures: Norms for names agreement, image agreement, familiarity, and visual complexity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 6, 174–215. doi: 10.1037/0278-7393.6.2.174

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Animacy (antonym: inanimacy) is a grammatical and semantic feature, existing in some languages, expressing how sentient or alive the referent of a noun is. Widely expressed, animacy is one of the most elementary principles in languages around the globe and is a distinction acquired as early as six months of age. [1] Sidis created a constructed language called Vendergood in his second book, the Book of Vendergood, which he wrote at age 8. The language was mostly based on Latin and Greek, but also drew on German and French and other Romance languages. It distinguished between eight moods: indicative, potential, imperative absolute, subjunctive, imperative, infinitive, optative, and Sidis's own "strongeable". [38] One of its chapters is titled "Imperfect and Future Indicative Active". Other parts explain the origin of Roman numerals. It uses base 12 instead of base 10: Kroneisen, M., & Erdfelder, E. (2011). On the plasticity of the survival processing effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37, 1553–1562. doi: 10.1037/a0024493 The animacy effect in long-term memory has thus far been obtained with nonword (VanArsdall et al., 2013) and word (Nairne et al., in press, and Exp. 1 of the present study) stimuli. One unexplored issue is whether the animacy effect is also obtained with pictures. It is well known that information is more likely to be recollected when it is presented in pictures rather than in words (Paivio, 1971; Rajaram, 1996). Because processing pictures (i.e., imagery) preceded the processing of language (e.g., words) in the evolution of human memory (Paivio, 2007), on the basis of a functionalist view of human memory (Nairne, 2010), whereby memory has evolved to favor the processing of fitness-relevant information, we expected to find that pictures of animate items would yield better recall than pictures of inanimate items. Examining this hypothesis would provide valuable information regarding the robustness of the animacy recall advantage. Method Participants Sidis died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1944 in Boston at age 46. [28] Writing and research [ edit ]

In Experiment 1, we found that incidental encoding led to better recall of words referring to animate than inanimate items. In Experiment 2, we found that the animacy effect found in long-term memory with words also extended to picture stimuli. This was of particular interest because, according to the adaptive memory view, our memory systems have evolved to favor the processing of fitness-relevant information, whatever the format in which animate versus inanimate entities are encountered. Wiener, Norbert (1964). Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262230117 . Retrieved April 1, 2019.

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Mahony, Dan. "Frequently Asked Questions About W. J. Sidis". Sidis.net . Retrieved January 12, 2018. Bi, Y., Han, Z., Shu, H., & Caramazza, A. (2007). Nouns, verbs, objects, actions, and the animate/inanimate effect. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 24, 485–504. doi: 10.1080/02643290701502391 A group of 33 students (mean age 20.12 years) at the University of Bourgogne participated in the study in exchange for course credits. None were taking any medication known to affect the central nervous system. Stimuli