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Humani nihil a me alienum puto. Il mio incontro con Franco Fabbro tra letteratura, neuropsicologia e pedagogia.
No full textL'opera di Jerome S. Bruner costituisce uno dei fondamenti della riflessione narratologica in pedagogia. Nell'opera dello psichiatra e neurolinguista Franco Fabbro si trovano alcuni spunti, trasversali alla neuropsicologia e allo studio della letteratura, alla luce dei quali alcuni aspetti del lavoro di Bruner possono essere proficuamente riletti
PARADOXICAL SELECTIVE RECOVERY IN A BILINGUAL APHASIC FOLLOWING SUBCORTICAL LESIONS
No full textIN monolinguals, not only cortical areas but also specific subcortical structures are crucial for language and speech processing. While the role of the left basal ganglia in monolingual aphasia has been defined, its relevance in bilingual and polyglot aphasia is still unknown. Data have now been obtained on a patient who, following an ischaemic lesion not involving cortical structures and mainly confined to the left basal ganglia, showed severe impairments in mother tongue production, with significantly better performance in her hardly spoken second language. This dissociation remained stable for over a year and was observed both in spontaneous speech and in translation tasks. This pattern of linguistic performance, which has never been described in relation to subcortical lesions, suggests that the left basal ganglia play a relevant role in the output of a highly automatized language
PMS876741 Supplemental Material - Supplemental material for Understanding Body Language Does Not Require Matching the Body's Egocentric Map to Body Posture: A Brain Activation fMRI Study
No full textSupplemental material, PMS876741 Supplemental Material for Understanding Body Language Does Not Require Matching the Body's Egocentric Map to Body Posture: A Brain Activation fMRI Study by Cinzia Canderan, Marta Maieron, Franco Fabbro and Barbara Tomasino in Perceptual and Motor Skills</p
Coleridge e Panikkar: la parola creativa che manifesta l'Uno
No full textil saggio si focalizza su una selezione di testi poetici e critici di Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) e mette in relazione l’idea del potere creativo e forgiante dell’Immaginazione e la teoria della ‘parola creativa’ versus il ‘termine scientista’ di Raymon Panikkar (1918-2010) . Coleridge è poeta, critico letterario, filosofo e teologo, teorico e iniziatore del Romanticismo inglese insieme all’amico William Wordsworth; e Panikkar è filosofo, teologo, scrittore spagnolo, di cultura indiana e catalana, innovatore del pensiero, teorizzatore e testimone del dialogo interculturale e interreligioso. Anche se appartengono a epoche, culture e lingue diverse, divise da circa centocinquant’anni di storia, Coleridge può in molti modi essere considerato un precursore di Panikkar. Le loro opere presentano molte analogie dal punto di vista poetico, immaginifico e scientifico, ed entrambi lavorano molto attraverso il concetto di ‘analogia’ piuttosto che di ‘influenza’. Sia Coleridge che Panikkar si focalizzano sulla funzione del linguaggio simbolico come strumento spirituale per la loro ricerca metafisica; condividono interessi filosofici, religiosi, teologici, poetici, creativi, scientifici e metafisici affini; studiano con mente e cuore aperti e liberi da condizionamenti religioni e culture diverse; l’Induismo ha un ruolo di spicco per entrambi e infatti vedono il divino come espressione a manifestarsi dell’Unità, nella diversità e molteplicità
Neurolinguistic and follow-up study of an unusual pattern of recovery from bilingual subcortical aphasia
No full textWe report on the neuropsychological and neurolinguistic features of a bilingual patient, E.M., who presented with an uncommon pattern of aphasic deficit consequent to subcortical lesions mainly involving the left basal ganglia. Not only are reports of bilingual subcortical aphasia rare, but E.M.'s deficit is particularly uncommon for it concerns the most used mother tongue (Venetian) much more than a less practiced second language (standard Italian). In this patient, the linguistic deficit in mother tongue production has been observed in spontaneous speech and in cross language translation tasks, where an asymmetrical paradoxical performance has been revealed. Indeed, unlike neurologically intact subjects, E.M. has more difficulties when translating into her mother tongue than into her second language. Although E.M.'s mother tongue is prevalently an oral language, the asymmetrical translation pattern is similar in written and oral translation tasks, thus ruling out the possibility that the deficit simply reflects differences between written and oral language codes. Finally, another remarkable feature of E.M.'s impairment is its stability over almost 5 years from the stroke. We propose that this unusual type of recovery in E.M. is related to the higher degree of automatization of the first language with respect to the second one. This proposal fits with the role of basal ganglia in automatized motor and cognitive performance
Long- and short-term plastic modeling of action prediction abilities in volleyball
No full textAthletes show superior abilities not only in executing complex actions, but also in anticipating others' moves. Here, we explored how visual and motor experiences contribute to forge elite action prediction abilities in volleyball players. Both adult athletes and supporters were more accurate than novices in predicting the fate of volleyball floating services by viewing the initial ball trajectory, while only athletes could base their predictions on body kinematics. Importantly, adolescents assigned to physical practice training improved their ability to predict the fate of the actions by reading body kinematics, while those assigned to the observational practice training improved only in understanding the ball trajectory. The results suggest that physical and observational practice might provide complementary and mutually reinforcing contributions to the superior perceptual abilities of elite athletes. Moreover, direct motor experience is required to establish novel perceptuo-motor representations that are used to predict others' actions ahead of realization
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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