Resource-explicit interactions in spatial population models.

Continuous-space population models can yield significantly different results from their panmictic counterparts when assessing evolutionary, ecological, or population-genetic processes. However, the computational burden of spatial models is typically much greater than that of panmictic models due to the overhead of determining which individuals interact with one another and how strongly they interact. Though these calculations are necessary to model local competition that regulates the population density, they can lead to prohibitively long runtimes.

Cherry pit primes Brad Pitt: Homophone priming effects on young and older adults' production of proper names.

This study investigated why proper names are difficult to retrieve, especially for older adults. On intermixed trials, young and older adults produced a word for a definition or a proper name for a picture of a famous person. Prior production of a homophone (e.