2,126 research outputs found
Neural systems underlying episodic memory: insights from animal research
No full textTwo strategies used to uncover neural systems for episodic–like memory in animals are discussed: (i) an attribute of episodic memory (what? when? where?) is examined in order to reveal the neuronal interactions supporting that component of memory; and (ii) the connections of a structure thought to be central to episodic memory in humans are studied at a level of detail not feasible in humans. By focusing on spatial memory (where?) and the hippocampus, it has proved possible to bring the strategies together. A review of lesion, disconnection and immediate early–gene studies in animals reveals the importance of interactions between the hippocampus and specific nuclei in the diencephalon (most notably the anterior thalamic nuclei) for spatial memory. Other parts of this extended hippocampal system include the mammillary bodies and the posterior cingulate (retrosplenial) cortex. Furthermore, by combining lesion and immediate early–gene studies it is possible to show how the loss of one component structure or tract can influence the remaining regions in this group of structures. The validity of this convergent approach is supported by new findings showing that the same set of regions is implicated in anterograde amnesia in humans
Letter from Patrick M. Duignan to Hagan
No full textHolograph letter from Patrick M. Duignan, Summer Hill College Sligo, to Hagan. At the wish of the bishop, enclosing three documents of correspondence between the O'Conor Don, Clonalis, Castlerea, County Roscommon, and Bishop Bernard Coyne, St. Mary's, Sligo: the O'Conor Don recommends his friend Fr. Roche, now of St. John's Church, Brentford, London, for the rectorship at the Irish College. He has good command of Italian (marginal comment 'no Irish!') and is a 'kind zealous and polished priest'. The bishop replies that the present vice-rector �'a distinguished writer and author'- has a prior claim; the O'Conor Don concurs. Duignan offers himself as a potential vice-rector; asking for frank reply. Musing that the bishop's interest in the matter is surprising; he is intolerant of English interference and whole-heartedly supports Hagan
Art, Biography, Sexuality: Patrick Procktor and Keith Vaughan
No full textThis critical review forms a reflection on the research published within the following publications:
Patrick Procktor: Art and Life (Unicorn Press, 2010)
Keith Vaughan: The Mature Oils 1946-1977, (Sansom & Co., 2012)
The research is on two artists, Patrick Procktor (1936-2003), and Keith Vaughan (1912-1977). The monograph on Procktor – previously one of the least documented of the generation of artists who came to prominence in London in the Sixties – positions him in a history of art from which he had been notably absent. The research on Vaughan asserts a new reading of his work, one that is both deeper and more nuanced in its analysis of the ways in which personal experience and sexuality are encoded autobiographically within his work. Crucially, in both artists biography and work are symbiotically linked; the research therefore examines the links between life and art.
Revisionary in intent, the work examines trajectories of experience of gay British (or rather, English) artists in the twentieth century, artists who sought to express themselves and forge careers within the constraints of a heteronormative society, albeit one in which attitudes to sexuality were undergoing change. As gay men, both were constrained by the social mores of their times, and each used painting as a means to affirm personal and sexual identities. A key research interest is in the ways in which sexuality and persona are reflected in critical responses to the artist’s work: in Vaughan, Procktor and other gay male artists of the period. The writing on both Procktor and Vaughan examines the relationship between their personal and professional/artistic lives, framed within a broader socio-political and art historical context. It asserts the place of biography as a means to understand and form new readings of the work. The work adds substantially to the literature and wider discourse on post-war British painting and social history
Intact negative patterning in rats with fornix or combined perirhinal and postrhinal cortex lesions
No full textIt has been proposed that the hippocampal formation is necessary for the acquisition of tasks that require the use of configural representations for their solution, including spatial learning and negative patterning. Tests of this influential view have, however, yielded conflicting results. For example fornix or hippocampal lesions, which reliably impair spatial learning, do not reliably impair negative patterning. A problem in interpreting these results has been the lack of controls for factors such as over-responding, excitatory effects of reward, and the possibility of non-configural solutions. At the same time, other studies have pointed to a role in configural learning for parahippocampal regions such as the perirhinal cortex. The present experiments controlled for the above factors and revealed that neither lesions of the fornix nor of the perirhinal/postrhinal cortex in the rat had any effect on negative patterning, although subsequent tests of object and spatial memory demonstrated the functional efficacy of the lesions
Seminar: "The Primacy of Movement - An Encounter with Maxine Sheets- Johnstone"
No full textAdvanced research seminar on the primacy of movement in the development of human consciousness, thought and language, with Maxine Sheets-Johnstone (University of Oregon, USA), author of the volume "The Primacy of Movement", in the series "Advances in Consciousness Research, John Benjamins Publishing Company (1999), for the Theory of Science Forum, Department of Philosophy, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Harmonies of political economy / by Frédéric Bastiat ; translated from the French, with a notice of the life and writings of the author, by Patrick James Stirling
No full textTranslation of the first 10 chapters of "Harmonies économiques"Advertisement on p. [299]Bastiat, Frédéric, 1801-1850Stirling, Patrick James, 1809-1891Physical description: xl, 298, [1] p. ; 23 cmLocation of original: Center for Historical Social Science Literature, Hitotsubashi University -- Call no. : Franklin:91Technical requirements: DjVu plugin is required to read text
Response from Young and Aggleton [reply to Daniel Tranel: Emotional processing and the human amygdala]
No full textJohn Rodker, Revising Author and Revised Translator
No full textInternational audienceAs a translated author, modernist poet, and publisher, John Rodker carried on a correspondence with his French translator, Ludmila Savitzky, which shows how carefully he answered her questions about syntax and word choice. As a translator, Rodker was in touch with famous French writers whom he was translating, including Henry de Montherlant who was asked to revise Rodker’s translation drafts for three bestselling novels. Such epistolary exchanges between authors and translators illuminate their method and the rhythm of their work, their proficiency in foreign languages, and their more-or-less open-ended translational suppleness at a crucial – though usually invisible – stage of the translation. Archival documents such as first drafts, revised typescripts, and author–translator correspondences speak to how collaborative translation will often take on a hermeneutic dimension that elucidates the source text, the target text, and the act of translation itself
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