Good morning,
Whitewater’s forecast calls for a sunny day with a high temperature of fifty degrees.
The Comment Forum will be off today, but will return next Friday. Other features are on the way, today and through the holiday weekend.
Tomorrow I’ll post FREE WHITEWATER’s annual Scariest of Whitewater, with this year’s top ten list of the scariest things in town. For a quick look at past posts, follow these links to the 2007, 2008, and 2009 editions.
From Wired, there’s a story entitled, Your Fingers Know When You Make a Typo, that describes how the
The brain uses two different checks to guard against sloppy copy, a new study finds. By using a doctored word processor to sneak errors into typed words and surreptitiously fix typists’ real errors, researchers teased apart the various ways people catch their own mistakes. The study, published in the Oct. 29 Science, highlights the complexity of performance monitoring….
The results may reveal a hierarchical method of error correction — with a “lower” system doing the actual work and a “higher” system assigning credit and blame, Logan suggests. These multiple layers of control may be evident in tasks such as playing music, speaking and walking to a destination, Logan says. As a man heads toward a new restaurant, his brain is noticing landmarks and keeping on the right course. Meanwhile, his feet steadily plod along, navigating the terrain automatically.
Here’s the citation: G. Logan and M. Crump. Cognitive illusions of authorship reveal distinct hierarchical error detection in skilled typists. Science. Vol. 330, October 29, 2010, p. 683.