Monday, April 26, 2004

Learning Disabilities: A Clearer Path to Reading Fluency. A new study shows that more aggressive treatment can make dyslexic brains work the way normal brains do. By John O'neil. [New York Times: Education] 10:59:44 PM      Google It!.

Imaging test 97% accurate in diagnosing schizophrenia [Science Blog] "An abnormal pattern in an area of the brain that governs hearing may be an accurate method of diagnosing schizophrenia, according to a study by Yale researchers and collaborators." 10:45:39 PM      Google It!.

Introduction to Latent Semantic Indexing. http://javelina.cet.middlebury.edu/lsa/out/cover_page.htm This paper, titled "Patterns in Unstructured Data: Discovery, Aggregation, and Visualization" is offered by the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education as a "layman's introduction to latent semantic indexing." It does start to go into the specifics of how LSI works, but fortunately at an introductory enough level that most of us can grasp. This paper has it all: metadata...ontologies...visualization ... what more could you ask for! A helpful introduction to an overlooked technology. See also the NITLE's LSI project page for pointers to PERL-based LSI software. (Thanks to Bruce Landon for the tip.)- SWL [EdTechPost] 10:42:59 PM      .