Word stem completion is one task in which subjects can be instructed either to make a deliberate recall (explicit instruction) or to be told to complete the stem with any appropriate word (implicit instruction). Positron emission tomography (PET) studies have indicated that during implicit ...
Remembering Oscar Hijuelos:Oscar Hijuelos,the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his 1989 bookThe Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, died at age 62 last month. Here is his obituary fromThe New York Times.His friend Gustavo Perez Firmat remembered him inthis NPR interview...
Alvaro Rodriguez is the pen behind a border-set exploitation film, a frenetic kids’ movie and a vampire western, among others. Rodriguez co-wrote the screenplay for this year’s hit movie, Machete, as well as 2009’s Shorts, and 1999’s From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman’s Daughter....