This paper proposes a new theory of the relationship between the sentence processing mechanism and the available computational resources. This theory -- the Syntactic Prediction Locality Theory (SPLT) -- has two components: an integration cost component and a component for the memory cost

A method for anomaly detection is introduced in which "normal" is defined by short-range correlations in a process ' system calls. Initial experiments suggest that the definition is stable during normal behavior for standard UNIX programs. Further, it is able to detect several common

. With the Stroop effect as an example, automatic processes are shown to be continuous and to emerge gradually with practice. Specifically, a computational model of the Stroop task simulates the time course of processing as well as the effects of learning. This was accomplished by combining the cascade mechanism

A two-process theory of human information processing is proposed and applied to detection, search, and attention phenomena. Automatic processing is activa-tion of a learned sequence of elements in long-term memory that is initiated by appropriate inputs and then proceeds automatically

distributed system to follow directly from the reliability of its con-stituents, but this is not always the case. The mechanisms used to structure a distributed system and to implement cooperation between components play a vital role in determining how reliable the system will be. Many contemporary

from aspects of lexical representation and are resolved by the same processing mechanisms. Reinterpreting syntactic ambiguity resolution as a form of lexical ambiguity resolution obviates the need for special parsing principles to account for syntactic interpretation preferences, reconciles a number

User studies are important for many aspects of the design process and involve techniques ranging from informal surveys to rigorous laboratory studies. However, the costs involved in engaging users often requires practitioners to trade off between sample size, time requirements, and monetary costs

to understand in detail the mecha-nisms and internal structure of cognitive pro-cesses that produce these relations. In the limiting case, we would like to have process models so explicit that they could actually produce the predicted behavior from the in-formation in the stimulus.

What was noted by E. J. hanger (1978) remains true today: that much of contemporary psychological research is based on the assumption that people are consciously and systematically processing incoming information in order to construe and interpret their world and to plan and engage in courses

that holds the name of the hospital at which they will train. Some go into the resident match kicking and screaming. Others are so trusting of the process (or so weak of conviction) that they let it decide whether they will be internists or surgeons. Fighting off the vivid image of the great mechanical maw