John Duff
Biographic Data
| ID | 316758 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Duff |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Duff |
| SIGNATURE | DUFF J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts, Amherst Integrative Learning Center 650 N. Pleasant St. Amherst MA 01003 USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6820-0717 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Role of Reinforcement Learning in Pragmatic Reasoning Tasks
In Gricean pragmatics, inference during communication is regarded as a form of rational, domain-general reasoning about the intentions of other agents. Studies using the pictorial communication “reference game” task are sometimes used in support of this hypothesis. Yet, measures of pragmatic reasoning in this task sometimes reveal poor performance, with participants requiring many rounds of play before they exhibit patterns which match Gricean in…
Integrating language model embeddings into the ACT-R cognitive modeling framework
In 2025, psycholinguistic research has the benefit of large, high-quality datasets of human behavior, and massively-scalable metrics for variables of interest like frequency and association. This means we have more data than ever before to shed light on classic language processing phenomena like associative priming. But in order to build and test rigorous theories against this data, we also need computational modeling tools that can simulate cogn…
Anticipating Negation
AbsractA sentence like (i) can often be used interchangeably with (ii). I don't think it's raining. I think it's not raining. With particular matrix predicates (e.g., think, seem, be probable) the negation from a complement clause may appear in the matrix clause, according to syntactic accounts, owing to a rule of Neg Raising, or according to semantic accounts, owing to a cancelable presupposition of the Excluded Middle (I believe p or I believe …
Australie occidentale. Les médecins généralistes étrangers et leurs conjoints dans les zones rurales
Cet article analyse la politique de recrutement des médecins ayant un diplôme étranger pour répondre à la pénurie de professionnels de la santé dans les zones rurales de l'Australie. Il analyse le contexte de maintien de ces médecins dans un environnement social plus vaste, notamment par un examen des conséquences des attentes et expériences de ces médecins et de leurs conjoints
Financing to Foster Community Health Care
Affluent countries face increasing health costs arising from the chronic illnesses of their ageing populations. Reforms are already being implemented, but in the face of considerable criticism. Community care, linked with self-care and family care, promises ways of containing costs, but questions of effectiveness and equity remain. Community care makes use of community infrastructures to foster family care and self-care supported by volunteer net…
Comparative Perspectives on Regional Development Policy in Australia and Ireland
Public health equity goals
Explains that current public health policy puts so much emphasis on food and nutrition because the single largest cause of death is nutrition‐related, and also because it is easier for a government to promote public health through nutrition than to address ailing health infrastructures or get to grips with adult literacy. Reports, however, the gaps in health equality between different socio‐economic and ethnic groups, and across gender and age. D…
The Molasses Reef wreck, Turks and Caicos Islands, B.W.I
Financing to Foster Community Health Care
Affluent countries face increasing health costs arising from the chronic illnesses of their ageing populations. Reforms are already being implemented, but in the face of considerable criticism. Community care, linked with self-care and family care, promises ways of containing costs, but questions of effectiveness and equity remain. Community care makes use of community infrastructures to foster family care and self-care supported by volunteer net…
The Molasses Reef wreck, Turks and Caicos Islands, B.W.I
Public health equity goals
Explains that current public health policy puts so much emphasis on food and nutrition because the single largest cause of death is nutrition‐related, and also because it is easier for a government to promote public health through nutrition than to address ailing health infrastructures or get to grips with adult literacy. Reports, however, the gaps in health equality between different socio‐economic and ethnic groups, and across gender and age. D…
Comparative Perspectives on Regional Development Policy in Australia and Ireland
Financing to Foster Community Health Care
Affluent countries face increasing health costs arising from the chronic illnesses of their ageing populations. Reforms are already being implemented, but in the face of considerable criticism. Community care, linked with self-care and family care, promises ways of containing costs, but questions of effectiveness and equity remain. Community care makes use of community infrastructures to foster family care and self-care supported by volunteer net…
Australie occidentale. Les médecins généralistes étrangers et leurs conjoints dans les zones rurales
Cet article analyse la politique de recrutement des médecins ayant un diplôme étranger pour répondre à la pénurie de professionnels de la santé dans les zones rurales de l'Australie. Il analyse le contexte de maintien de ces médecins dans un environnement social plus vaste, notamment par un examen des conséquences des attentes et expériences de ces médecins et de leurs conjoints
Anticipating Negation
AbsractA sentence like (i) can often be used interchangeably with (ii). I don't think it's raining. I think it's not raining. With particular matrix predicates (e.g., think, seem, be probable) the negation from a complement clause may appear in the matrix clause, according to syntactic accounts, owing to a rule of Neg Raising, or according to semantic accounts, owing to a cancelable presupposition of the Excluded Middle (I believe p or I believe …
The Role of Reinforcement Learning in Pragmatic Reasoning Tasks
In Gricean pragmatics, inference during communication is regarded as a form of rational, domain-general reasoning about the intentions of other agents. Studies using the pictorial communication “reference game” task are sometimes used in support of this hypothesis. Yet, measures of pragmatic reasoning in this task sometimes reveal poor performance, with participants requiring many rounds of play before they exhibit patterns which match Gricean in…
Integrating language model embeddings into the ACT-R cognitive modeling framework
In 2025, psycholinguistic research has the benefit of large, high-quality datasets of human behavior, and massively-scalable metrics for variables of interest like frequency and association. This means we have more data than ever before to shed light on classic language processing phenomena like associative priming. But in order to build and test rigorous theories against this data, we also need computational modeling tools that can simulate cogn…
Political science (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Cognition (2 works) · Health care (2 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (2 works) · Population (2 works) · Agriculture (1 work) · Alternation (linguistics (1 work)