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Geldard and Sherrick likened the perception to that of a rabbit hopping along the skin, giving the phenomenon its name. While the rabbit illusion has been most extensively studied in the tactile domain, analogous sensory saltation illusions have been observed in audition [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and vision.
Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future is a 2016 book by Swedish writer Johan Norberg (a Senior Fellow of the libertarian Cato Institute), which promotes globalization, free trade and the notion of progress. In it, Norberg develops his ideas published previously in In Defense of Global Capitalism (2001). [1]
The current cycle, PIRLS 2016, is the fourth cycle of the IEA PIRLS. Like the previous PIRLS cycles (conducted in 2001, 2006, and 2011), the study will also collect information about home supports for literacy, curriculum and curriculum implementation, instructional practices, and school resources in each participating country.
The book summarizes the findings of Ericsson's 30-year research into the general nature and acquisition of expertise. Intended for a lay audience, Peak is an expository book on deliberate practice , a term coined by Ericsson to refer to the specific learning method used by experts to achieve superior performance in their fields, and mental ...
The motivation for mastery learning comes from trying to reduce achievement gaps for students in average school classrooms. During the 1960s John B. Carroll and Benjamin S. Bloom pointed out that, if students are normally distributed with respect to aptitude for a subject and if they are provided uniform instruction (in terms of quality and learning time), then achievement level at completion ...
2016 () French in Action is a French language course, developed by Professor Pierre Capretz of Yale University . The course includes workbooks, textbooks, and a 52-episode television series .
Progress in Brain Research is a series of academic books on neuroscience published by Elsevier. The first volume appeared in 1963 and as of January 2014 [update] , 207 volumes have been published. The editors-in-chief of the series are Stephen Waxman ( Yale University School of Medicine ), Donald G. Stein ( Emory University ), Dick Swaab ...
Beyond the Limits and The Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update were published in 1992 and 2004 respectively; [8] [9] in 2012, a 40-year forecast from Jørgen Randers, one of the book's original authors, was published as 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years; [10] and in 2022 two of the original Limits to Growth authors, Dennis ...