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The latest issue of Teaching of Psychology (Vol 31, No.2) includes an article (pp 146-148) describing an interative Excel workbook illustrating some elements of the Rescorla-Wagner model of conditioning. The idea is that many of our students have not experienced a computational model of behavior before, and having a chance to play with one -- e.g., seeing the effects of changing the variables -- can quickly increase their intuitive understanding of how such models work. But this post isn't intended as an advertisement for the paper. I've been receiving numerous e-mails from folks describing difficulty in downloading the workbook using the link provided in the article. My interim response has been to e-mail the file to these folks, and I'm happy to continue doing this for anybody who needs it. Now that the semester's over and I'm beginning to get dug out from under the paper blizzard, however, I finally got a chance to investigate the problem and have discovered its cause: The font used in ToP renders the "en" dash character (a.k.a. hyphen) on an angle, which leads some people -- including me, at first glance -- to see it as a tilde (~) or some other character. The link works, but it is not what some people think it is: The correct link is http://www-pub.naz.edu:9000/~mrenner8/RW.xls I hope this is helpful. Cheers, Michael Renner ------------------------------------------------- Michael J. Renner, Ph.D. Dean, College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Psychology Nazareth College 4245 East Avenue Rochester, NY 14618 http://www.naz.edu/dept/cas/index.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: +1.585.389.2391 Fax: +1.585.389.2392 ------------------------------------------------- --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
