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Transfer of extinction retrieval cues attenuates the renewal effect in rats
Get PDFAn experiment using rats investigated whether retrieval cues for an extinction memory could also be brought under the control of cues not physically present during extinction learning. Following the extinction of a fear motivated task in a context different from original learning, rats were exposed to the training context either immediately, 30 min, or 60 min after extinction. When tested back in the original context, rats that were exposed to the training context immediately following extinction treated the context as if it had received extinction in that setting, i.e., no renewal. This attenuation of renewal was reduced or eliminated with longer post-extinction delays, which suggests the importance of an active extinction memory during exposure. These findings are consistent with other research examining the transfer of retrieval cues using original memories and old reactivated memories, and in this case demonstrate a similarity between extinction learning with original acquisition
Methods of Behavioral Analysis in Neuroscience
No full textUsing the most well-studied behavioral analyses of animal subjects to promote a better understanding of the effects of disease and the effects of new therapeutic treatments on human cognition, Methods of Behavior Analysis in Neuroscience provides a reference manual for molecular and cellular research scientists in both academia and the pharmaceutical industry. The materials presented draw from the scholarly works of recognized experts in several fields of cognitive and behavioral neuroscience.https://scholarlycommons.susqu.edu/facultybooks/1081/thumbnail.jp
Health Care Symposium Schedule
Get PDFThe Arlin M. Adams Center for Law and Society has convened a two-day symposium to examine the state of health care coverage in America and question whether we should adopt a system of universal health care. Jonathan Cohn, graduate of Harvard University, senior editor at the New Republic and author of the best-seller Sick, is the keynote speaker. Dr. Jerome Groopman, an internationally respected physician, researcher and author himself, has said, “In Sick, Jonathan Cohn takes an honest, penetrating look at a health care system which is completely broken. Cohn has written a call-to-arms for a complete transformation of American medicine.
Code Blue: Can We Save the Health Care System? Transcript of the Symposium
Get PDFCode Blue: Can We Save the Health Care System? A Dialogue Featuring: Claudia M. Fegan, M.D., associate chief medical officer, Cook County Health and Hospital System and former president of Physicians for a National Health Program. Devon Herrick, Ph.D., senior fellow, National Center for Policy Analysis. Moderated by Allan D. Sobel, director of the Arlin M. Adams Center for Law and Society. Presented Thursday, March 26, 2008 Degenstein Center Theate
Lessons and Legacies IX: Memory, History and Responsibility--Reassessments of the Holocaust, Implications for the Future
No full textMemory, History, and Responsibility: Reassessments of the Holocaust, Implications for the Future contains the highlights from the ninth Lessons and Legacies conference. The conference, held during the height of the genocide in Darfur, sought to reexamine how the darkness of the Holocaust continues to shadow human existence more than sixty years after World War II left the Third Reich in ruins. The collection opens with Saul Friedländer’s call for interdisciplinary approaches to Holocaust research. The essays that follow draw on the latest methodologies in the fields of history, literature, philosophy, religion, film, and gender studies, among others. Together both the leading scholars of the Holocaust and the next generation of scholars engage the difficult reality—as raised by editors Petropoulos, Rapaport, and Roth in their introduction—that the legacies of the Holocaust have not proved sufficient in intervening against human-made mass death, let alone preventing or eliminating it.https://scholarlycommons.susqu.edu/facultybooks/1049/thumbnail.jp
Testimonial Advertising in the American Marketplace
No full textFaculty-authored essay: “The Ten Year Club”: Artificial Limbs and Testimonials at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, by Edward Slavishak This collection brings together essays that explore the history and practices of testimonial marketing in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.https://scholarlycommons.susqu.edu/facultybooks/1001/thumbnail.jp
Interactive Methods for Teaching Action Potentials, an Example of Teaching Innovation from Neuroscience Postdoctoral Fellows in the Fellowships in Research and Science Teaching (FIRST) Program
Get PDFAcquiring a faculty position in academia is extremely competitive and now typically requires more than just solid research skills and knowledge of one’s field. Recruiting institutions currently desire new faculty that can teach effectively, but few postdoctoral positions provide any training in teaching methods. Fellowships in Research and Science Teaching (FIRST) is a successful postdoctoral training program funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) providing training in both research and teaching methodology. The FIRST program provides fellows with outstanding interdisciplinary biomedical research training in fields such as neuroscience. The postdoctoral research experience is integrated with a teaching program which includes a How to Teach course, instruction in classroom technology and course development and mentored teaching. During their mentored teaching experiences, fellows are encouraged to explore innovative teaching methodologies and to perform science teaching research to improve classroom learning. FIRST fellows teaching neuroscience to undergraduates have observed that many of these students have difficulty with the topic of neuroscience. Therefore, we investigated the effects of interactive teaching methods for this topic. We tested two interactive teaching methodologies to determine if they would improve learning and retention of this information when compared with standard lectures. The interactive methods for teaching action potentials increased understanding and retention. Therefore, FIRST provides excellent teaching training, partly by enhancing the ability of fellows to integrate innovative teaching methods into their instruction. This training in turn provides fellows that matriculate from this program more of the characteristics that hiring institutions desire in their new faculty
Hip Hop and Inequality: Searching for the Real Slim Shady
No full textWhen noted rapper Eminem commanded his audience\u27s attention in his 2000 megahit release The Real Slim Shady and queried in the lyrics, Will the real Slim Shady please stand up? , the authors took the question seriously and began to search for the real slim shady among the fabric of contemporary capitalism. The result of this research is this book, which explores how a dominant culture incorporates some dimensions of a subculture--in this case hip hop--and uses it to perpetuate dimensions of social stratification within a society. Essentially, this book critically examines how the values of a dominant culture and the controlling images it reproduces, impact issues of racial diversity, class distinctions, and gender stereotypes. Authors Dave Ramsaran and Simona Hill are two sociologists who have sought to understand the contradictory nature of contemporary social phenomenon. Hip hop that is brought into the mainstream by contemporary media serves several purposes. First, it greatly enhances corporate profits. Second, it repackages old dimensions of inequality, including racial stereotyping and the sexist contempt for women. Third, the glorification of violence, the idealization of excessive consumption, and the promotion of hypersexual black masculinity serve to reinforce the privilege of dominant groups. Hip hop that challenges these stereotypes and cultural notions is pushed into the underground. The intent of the book is to uncover this process of moving from cultural questioning to cultural appropriation and reinforcement of structural inequality. Despite the existence of other works on hip hop in fields such as ethnomusicology, anthropology, political science, communications studies and Black Studies, there is a dearth in the contributions from a sociological perspective. Studies have been done which look at the emergence of hip hop from its roots in the African-American community, as well as on the contributions of some of the major artists in the field. However, little work has been done on trying to locate the emergence of hip hop and hip hop culture within the context of capitalist development in the United States. The book shows how racial, gender, and ethnic stereotypes are reformulated through different media. The book critically analyzes two prominent archetypal images of the gangsta male and the wanksta feminist who can be either male or female. The analysis shows that hip hop outside of mainstream media has remained true to its radical traditions. Moreover, as hip hop has gone beyond the confines of the United States, that same radical tradition remains a key component in the hip hop diaspora and in hip hop\u27s cross-cultural expressions. Hip Hop and Inequality: Searching for the Real Slim Shady is an important book for understanding how systems of inequality work and how they are perpetuated. It will be of immense value to professors and students in sociology, anthropology, political science, women\u27s studies, popular culture, and media studies. Written in an accessible language, it will also appeal to an audience outside academia and will certainly speak to those who may or may not realize that hip hop has a profound impact on modern society.https://scholarlycommons.susqu.edu/facultybooks/1041/thumbnail.jp