January, 2010
The New Year's day is very windy and cold.
The second day of the year is much warmer than yesterday.
Semantic memory may be what episodic memory has been universalized to be, or what episodic memory has been proceduralized to be. Or, it might be what we have made good use of both episodic memory and procedural memory to work out abstract cognitive activities, or to meet academic affairs.
Semantic memory might be what episodic memory's entries have been abstracted to be to meet academic needs.
The first Sunday of the year is a rather warm day. This year's first CD I hear from the Bach's complete works is the first disc of Matthew's Passion (in 3 discs) conducted by Helmuth Rilling. What a coincident! I might be lucky this year.
The first workday, after 6 days of New Year holidays, clearly revealed the eastern mountains. The air is clear without the 6 days' industrial activities. During the 6 days, however, service industry was quick to start again. Many opened on the 2nd; some even on the 1st. I wonder if we can still call it a holiday season, when the society has been tertiary-industrialized. During the season, most hotels are, as a matter of fact, open. Most chain restaurants are open.
I found a fractal in the east sky, the shining edges of the winter clouds.
The second work day of the new year has ended with the cold and hard winds.
Eastern dark gray clouds are divided into two: the upper ones and the bottom ones. The bottom ones conceals the eastern mountains which used to be clearly seen on New Year holidays. The industry activities have started. So have our educational industry activities.
Today's winter gray clouds have narrower zigzag breaks, which don't show the sky. Yet, there should be a clear sky above them all.
Such being the heaven, the world is not so bright. With a fewer students on the platform yet, the world seems a little bit dim. When will the world really start, if it is ever to start?
The morning winter clouds were, of course, gray, but had brightly orange-colored edges around them. I could even find white-colored clouds above them. Even the winter has its bright side.
How can I improve my English communication both quantitatively and qualitatively? I have focused on improving my English proficiency, and have made a certain progress. How can I make more progress? Or, what is the next step of the progress?
My first club Saturday of the year finished closing school buildings and gym. Not so bad. Not so bad.
It's a fine morning.
We walked out of Oe-bashi Station to find the
It's cloudy this morning.
Celadon is pottery or, more specifically speaking, porcelain known with its light (sometimes greenish) blue color, the color of jade. As Chinese court people loved jade, they valued the earthenware highly. Those of Ru Ware were appraised with their sky blue color.
It’s overwhelmingly cloudy. The heaven is almost a cloud. The cloud is dotted with orange-color street lights, not with the orange-color morning sun light.
The first class day of the week has finished with the end of the cold rain. I wonder if it will be warmer tomorrow. No hope?
A cold morning. Colder than it used to be for a week or so. It is the dead of winter. I doubt if it will be better in the day as we are told to have a couple of colder days ahead.
The tram is crowded again, as we have entered our second school week after the winter holidays. The Coming-of-age Day weekend has finished, and we are supposed to work in full throttle.
Gray. Gray. Gray. Even the winter cold winds look gray. It's a relief to find a few tops of the clouds shone in morning orange colors.
The socialization of non-elite rising generation is an agenda. I think that of non-elite non-poor rising generation should be an agenda.
It's off today, although I have to go to school to take care of the club. Anyway, It's a relief to have an off.
I'm waiting for the
The east bottom deep purple gradates into light grayish blue toward the top of the winter morning heaven. Is Shu Uemura's eyelash curler another new type of Four Treasures of Study?
Four Treasures of the Study is an expression used to denote the brush, ink, paper and ink stone used in the literal traditions in Chinese and other East Asian countries. The name appears to originate in the time of the Southern and Northern Dynasties (420-589 AD). Classical scholars had more than just the Four treasures in their studies. The other "Treasures" include the brush-holder, brush-hanger, paperweights, the brush-rinsing pot, and the seal and seal-ink.
Bookmen and penmen in
Epistemological errors could be found anywhere. They are unavoidable when the society is so complicated that anyone needs to make deductive cognition to be socialized. Some biased ideology might steal into the cognitive process.
Fight or flight? Some high school graduates are actually fighting; the others are making their flight somehow or other. Beyond the psychological conflict between fight and flight, can we expect the development of today's humans?
A rainy morning with the less occupied tram. Because of the rain? Or because of the delay caused by the rain?
I saw the homeless DVD and NEET 30s' TV program yesterday. It was a good timing. The doctrine or mantra of self-responsibility is at issue. I don't think we can return to the communalism.
A fine morning with no class gives me a little bit of relief. If "once a social category has been activated it plays an important part in subsequent information processing." (Miles Hewstone and C. Neil Macrae, 'Social Cognition', "The Blackwell Dictionary of Cognitive Psychology", 1990, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, UK, p.338)
We can say memorizing vocabulary along themes, that is employing “Content-based Vocabulary,” has a significant meaning.
Learning to read and write English is to be socialized into English-speaking communities. When you read or write, your lexicon will be utilized especially along the theme-line you are reading or writing. Lexicon will be activated by the category. If you remember lexicon by the category, they might be activated more easily.
A fine morning with the last night's stressful dream.
The words and idioms learned, or lexicons, or lexemes, are naturally clustered along themes, or under categories. Will learning words and idioms by the category help their storage and retrieval?
"Finally, errors reveal that the different levels of planning are largely analogous; all involve inserting elements into frames." (Carol A. Foler, 'Speech Production', "The Blackwell Dictionary of Cognitive Psychology", 1990, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, UK, p.346) This "inserting elements into frames" might be the reason why native speakers' errors can be "understandable" for other native speakers, while those of non-native speakers are hard to be understood by native speakers: we make errors even in "frames."
"Writing is only 5000 or so years old, and until recently the skill of writing was possessed by only a small minority of individuals, even in literate societies. Only within the last hundred years has the expectation arisen that all members of an advanced society will be able to both read and write. When considering the problems children now experience in learning to spell, we should bear in mind the fact that the English spelling system was not designed with ease of learning for the general population in mind. Given that we spend perhaps a dozen years learning to write, then 60 practicing the skill, it could be argued that the design features of writing systems should still be biased toward the expert rather than the novice writer." (Andrew W. Ellis, 'Spelling', "The Blackwell Dictionary of Cognitive Psychology", 1990, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, UK, p.347)
The same could be said even about learning Japanese writing system.
Eastern clouds are not those of winter any more. They are shone more brightly than they were a week ago. The big tangerine can be seen through winter bare trees. It is a morning rather than a dawn.
Even the purple clouds in the east, shone with bright tangerine colors, suggest the spring is coming in the heaven. How about on the ground?
The clear Eastern sky reveals its preparation for the New Spring. According to the Luna calendar, we are having the New Spring or the New Year with after a couple of weeks. We should be under the preparation traditionally.
Grayish purple clouds are floating over the grayish purple eastern mountains. In between are filled with light orange colors.
A rather warm morning we have on the second last day of the first month of the year 2010. Is that because I woke up later than on weekdays?
Where should we visit in spring holidays?
The last day of the first month of the year is cloudy, which implicates … nothing.
The way to Makiochi,
It had started raining on the way to
The winds of brass have blew through me, and I'm sitting on a seat at Makiochi Station. On my right, I can see the mountains of
On my way back, I dropped in Bagel & Bagel for lunch, instead of dining out in Hankyu International Hotel. The change is that of between 780 yen and 2000. If it were not raining outside, I might have chosen the hotel lunch. However, the bagel chicken and burdock sandwich I had was delicious enough not to feel regret. The bagel was that with soy milk and green soy beens.
They didn't sell doughnuts with bean curd refuse in the Umeda branch of Ikari Supermarket. Why? It's not clear. I had no choice but to buy 5 loafs of bread and some Danish pastry with almond chocolate in them.
"A network is a system of nodes and pointers; the nodes represent concepts, the pointers represent the relations between the concepts." (Wietske Noordman-Vonk, "Retrieval from Semantic Memory", Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 1979, New York, p.4) "In the most parsimonious version of a network model, semantic similarity between two concepts is represented as the distance between the concepts. The distance is expressed by the number of intermediate nodes between the concepts. Similarity is inversely related to the distance." (do., p.4/5) Those mean that each concept is not only a concept node but also a node which connects other concept nodes. They are connected, and are connectors as well.
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