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The place of inner language in feeling: a commentary on “Revisiting the Left Convexity Hypothesis: Changes in the Mental Apparatus after Left Dorso-medial Prefrontal Damage” by Salas and Yuen
Full text linkThis paper provides a commentary on Salas and Yuen (this issue) who propose a revision to the ‘left convexity hypothesis’ of Kaplan-Solms and Solms, that there is no evidence for involvement of left hemisphere regions in the mental apparatus. Salas and Yuen provide a theoretical review and detailed clinical description that forms the basis for their argument that left dorso-medial frontal regions may be involved in ego regulation of emotion. In this commentary, the theoretical basis for Salas and Yuen’s argument is considered in light of cognitive and affective neuroscience models of emotion regulation. Whilst this commentary is supportive of Salas’ and Yuen’s position, the models discussed distinguish different roles of inner language associated with labeling and reappraisal, or with distancing or shifting of inner perspective. However this clinical, theoretical and empirical extension of Salas and Yuen’s position raises further questions regarding the role and nature of inner language with regard to the experience and regulation of emotion
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
Exploring domains of ‘frontal dysfunction’ relevant to everyday life following acquired brain injury.
Full text linkDamage to the frontal areas of the brain is associated with alterations in cognitive, social, and emotional regulation abilities. These neuropsychological consequences present challenges to ecologically valid assessment (difficulties in everyday life being poorly predicted by traditional neuropsychological test performance) and far transfer of rehabilitation gains to everyday life. In this thesis, the literature on ‘cold’ and ‘hot’ cognitive, social and emotional frontal functions is discussed in relation to these challenges. Gaps in the research are identified relating to 1. Associations between specific ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ cognitive processes, 2. Association of ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ cognitive processes with everyday outcomes. Four studies are presented each addressing a different aspect of these gaps: ‘cold’ executive and ‘hot’ emotion regulation abilities and peer relationships following paediatric acquired brain injury (ABI); patterns and predictors of performance of people with traumatic brain injury (TBI) on a modified gamble task compared with healthy controls; interaction between coping style and specific executive functions in association with emotional outcomes after ABI; and the effect of brief goal management training (GMT) and periodic alerts on achievement of everyday intentions following ABI. Results indicate variation in the extent to which ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ frontal functions are associated with each other and everyday outcomes. A ‘frontal-contextual system’ model in which performance characteristics arise from the dynamic interaction between ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ frontal systems and everyday practical and social contexts is presented as a way of understanding everyday difficulties. Application of novel methodologies that can sample the interactions between system components and are sensitive to inter-individual variability may be useful for advancing understanding of the links between frontal dysfunction and everyday life. Implications for intervention that are similarly focused on the interactions between components and facilitation of social or physiological conditions that give rise to optimal adaptation in everyday life are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Adjustment
No full textA fundamental goal of rehabilitation is to facilitate recovery and promote individuals’ adjustment to their impairments, activity limitations and role changes (Wilson and Gracey 2009). Adjustment can be understood as the process of making sense of, coming to terms with and adapting to changes in functioning (typically loss of function) following the onset of an injury or illness. The process of adjustment is likely to differ considerably between adults and children with an acquired disorder. A disorder with childhood onset typically disrupts skills that are developing or those yet to be developed, while a disorder during adulthood leads to a loss of function that may be progressive or non-progressive in nature (Kolb and Whishaw 2003). Due to the broad scope of health conditions to which an individual may adjust, this article focuses on neurological disorders that occur during adulthood with particular emphasis on brain injury. Adjustment in this context typically relates to impaired function, activity restrictions and altered lifestyle circumstances including socioeconomic changes. The stressors faced are often chronic in nature as individuals consistently attempt to cope with and adjust to the effects and implications of their condition.Griffith Health, School of Applied PsychologyNo Full Tex
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