Bøker av JP Spencer

Freedom: A "e;Roaring Ecstasy"e; are poems and paintings that reach out to the absolute heart of the reader. In depth, it brings family, love, and the gift of life itself into the center of the true meaning of unity and love. In this time of Covid, the reality is the realization of how much we all need and depend on each other.Roseanne and Pennell Spencer's other related book of poetry is The Mystical Magical Miracle in which we have Paintings and Love Poems of Montana and the World. Website: jpspencergallery.com-Alva

The book Paintings and Love Poems of Montana and the World is truly an expression of love and is stimulated by the forces of nature, the beauty of mother earth, and the miracle of the sun and sea that feed the soul of our existence; the ups and downs of our emotional state, with expressions of natural love, wild Montana love, and adventure. Upon reading, you will tap into love and beauty forevergreen. The power of it is truly a gift to life and all humanity. Love is all there is. -Alva

Executive function (EF) is a central aspect of cognition that undergoes significant changes in early childhood. Changes in EF in early childhood are robustly predictive of academic achievement and general quality of life measures later in adulthood. We present a dynamic neural field (DNF) model that provides a process-based account of behavior and developmental change in a key task used to probe the early development of executive function--the Dimensional Change Card Sort (DCCS) task. In the DCCS, children must flexibly switch from sorting cards either by shape or color to sorting by the other dimension. Typically, 3-year-olds, but not 5-year-olds, lack the flexibility to do so and perseverate on the first set of rules when instructed to switch. Using the DNF model, we demonstrate how rule-use and behavioral flexibility come about through a form of dimensional attention. Further, developmental change is captured by increasing the robustness and precision of dimensional attention. Note that although this enables the model to effectively switch tasks, the dimensional attention system does not "know" the details of task-specific performance. Rather, correct performance emerges as a property of system-wide interactions. We show how this captures children's behavior in quantitative detail across 14 versions of the DCCS task. Moreover, we successfully test a set of novel predictions with 3-year-old children from a version of the task not explained by other theories.