Finally, we summarize neuroimaging results that pinpoint effects on association cortices and thalamocortical functional connectivity, which inform current theories of psychedelic action. By synthesizing knowledge across the chemical, molecular, neuronal, and network levels, we hope to provide an integrative ...
There has always been an interest in geniuses and prodigies. The word ‘genius’, from the Latin gens (= family) and the term ‘genius’, meaning ‘begetter’, comes from the early Roman cult of a divinity as the head of the family. In its earliest form, genius was concerned with the...
Edward Tylor, summarised in 1871 as ‘knowledge, belief, art, morals, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society’. Anthropologists
Music, on the other hand, can reliably induce a range of emotions spanning the valence-arousal space with less explicit linguistic structure52,53,54. Unfamiliar pieces of instrumental music may help prevent individuals from relying on prior knowledge to scaffold episodic encoding processes55. Finally...
of scientists like Kepler or Einstein become the commonplace knowledge of schoolchildren and the once outrageous shapes and colours of an artist like Paul Klee so soon appear on the fabrics we wear.This does not minimise the supremacy of their achievements, which outstrip our own as the sub-...
knowledge of teachers about NOS and its situational testing. Up to now, to measure professional knowledge of teachers on Nature of Science in teaching contexts is a lack of quantitative instruments. To help to fill this gap is the intention of the test presented in this article. The test ...
of scientists like Kepler or Einstein become the commonplace knowledge of schoolchildren and the once outrageous shapes and colours of an artist like Paul Klee so soon appear on the fabrics we wear.This does not minimise the supremacy of their achievements, which outstrip our own as the sub-...
What is it to have genuine knowledge? What makes an actionvirtuousor an assertion true? Such questions can be asked with respect to many specific domains, with the result that there are whole fields devoted to thephilosophyof art (aesthetics), to thephilosophy of science, toethics, toepistemol...
1. Relative amount of knowledge possessed. The greater the dogmatism the greater the discrepancy between degree of knowledge of facts, events, ideas, and interpretations stemming from the belief system and any one of the disbelief subsystems. Thus, for example, with an increase in dogmatism there...
If you ever wanted answers to these and many other questions about animal acoustic communication, then join Nicolas Mathevon on his grand tour around the world. Sharing his encyclopedic knowledge as if you were his companion, he weaves explanations of the intricacies of sound production and percepti...