Reviewer comments: Nonetheless, I do not see how the critique of generally assumed a., b. and c. is germane to the paper.
There are two issues in this paper that are not as germane to its main conclusions as the above but are important and deserve comment because they are not, I believe, adequately addressed.
Adding to the debate and germane to the current paper, we have recently shown that there are large individual differences in AB magnitude, and that in some individuals, (about 5% of the population), the AB is absent altogether in a task that requires identification of two letter targets embedded amongst digit distractors [20].
The formation of new species is the first step to macroevolutionary patterns and processes, so it is all the more germane to the thesis of this paper.
This is, obviously, directly germane to the massive misrepresentation of the PURE papers that were yesterday's news.
Each ostensible news headline turns out to be subtly germane, as in the book's opening chapter about the paper's Paris correspondent, Lloyd Burko, which is "Bush Slumps to New Low in Polls".
When I'm working on a book, or what will eventually become a book, everything germane floats around and comes out on little pieces of paper: from flyers, note cards, notebooks, newspaper, you name it; magazine blow-in cards are good, too.
Particularly germane is "Communicating Climate Change Risks in a Skeptical World," a paper by John Sterman of the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose work has been discussed here before.
The paper then describes how the core components of cognitive load – intrinsic, extraneous, and germane load – may be observable using neuroimaging techniques, and argues for the exploration of new links between education research and neuroscience.
File cabinets and boxes nearby included more extensive assignments he had recently completed: summaries of long deposition testimony from which he had extracted the most germane parts, copies of summonses and subpoenas he had prepared and lawyers' court papers he had vetted to assure that the decisions they cited were still valid as precedents.
