Vocora Publications & Notes
This page collects work related to Vocora. Each item remains in its canonical section according to its type. Inclusion here means that the item informs the project; it does not mean that it is a peer-reviewed publication.
Research and Design Notes
What Should Vocora Measure as Learning?
Type: Working research and design note
Status: Published; requires future empirical evaluation
Distinguishes practice activity, same-session performance, and longer-term retention, and explains the current product metrics and guardrails.
Retrieval Practice in Vocora
Type: Working research note
Status: Published; application-specific effects not yet evaluated
Reviews why active recall is used, which claims the evidence can support, and what a delayed recall measure still needs to establish.
Spaced Practice and the Leitner System
Type: Working research and design note
Status: Published; current schedule not empirically optimized
Separates the general spacing effect from the practical but unvalidated intervals used by Vocora’s current Leitner-style scheduler.
Ethical Gamification in Vocora
Type: Working research and design note
Status: Published; current feature effects not causally evaluated
Defines autonomy, competence, privacy, and guardrail requirements for goals, streaks, progress feedback, and sharing.
قانون هب و شکلگیری تداعیها
Type: Working conceptual note
Language: Persian
A cautious introduction to Hebbian learning and its limits when used to think about learned emotional associations. It is not a clinical or therapeutic guide.
Translations and Reading Notes
مغز چگونه الگوهای زبان را دنبال میکند
Type: Translation and adaptation
Original author: Cindy Blanco, Ph.D.
A general introduction to statistical learning in language, published with clear attribution to the original source.
Project Documentation
Research Log
A dated record of substantive changes in questions, interpretations, measurements, and project decisions.
Gamification and Sharing Principles
Type: Product design and evidence note
Location: Vocora repository
Documents the current motivation principles, metric definitions, privacy constraints, design boundaries, and future phases for progress sharing and gamification.
Vocora Source and Technical Overview
The application source, setup instructions, architecture, tests, and current product capabilities.
Publication Standard
Future Vocora entries should identify their type and status clearly. Useful labels include:
- Working Research Note
- Literature Review
- Design Note
- Experiment Protocol
- Experiment Report
- Translation or Adaptation
The term paper should be reserved for work that is prepared and presented as a formal paper, and peer reviewed should only be used when that process has actually occurred.