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Contrasting activity profile of two distributed cortical networks as a function of attentional demands
No full textThe original publication is available at http://www.jneurosci.orgThis work was supported by R01 grant MH-073610 from the National Institutes of Health to Denis Paré
Arcus in Horace, Carm. 3. 26. 7
Get PDFThe author defends G. P. Bidder’s suggestion that arcus in Hor. Carm. 3. 26. 7 implies a drill bow. An important argument in its favour is that this meaning of arcus has been attested in Greek-Latin glosses (CGL II [1888] 244. 35: αρις arcus).В статье защищается выдвинутое Дж. П. Биддером предположение о том, что слово arcus у Горация (Carm. III, 26, 7) указывает на лучковую дрель. Важный аргумент в поддержку этого толкования – то обстоятельство, что такое значение arcus засвидетельствовано в греко-латинских глоссах (CGL II [1888] 244. 35: αρις arcus)
Is Tolerance Political? An Interview with Denis Lacorne
No full textcontribution à un site webDenis Lacorne is the author of "The Limits of Tolerance. Enlightenment Values and Religious Fanaticism" (Columbia University Press, 2019), the English translation of "Les limites de la tolérance" (Gallimard, awarded the Prix Montyon by the Académie Française). In his book, which is intellectually very inspiring because of the many questions it addresses and raises, Denis Lacorne traces the emergence of the notion of tolerance from its early thinkers to the Age of Enlightenment and finally questions the notion and its various understandings through more recent events in France and the United States. What is tolerance? Is tolerance political? Interview by Miriam Périer, CER
Venimus ad summum Fortunae: Prosperity and Flourishing of Arts in Horace (Epist. 2. 1. 32–33)
Get PDFThe explanations of the passage Hor. Epist. 2. 1. 32–33 that prevail in scholarly literature are not satisfactory, though the asyndeton in v. 32 is rightly taken as conclusivum and the distichon as a paralogism. The author defends at length the interpretation of L. Bösing (1972): the trace of thought suggests the implicit premise, which must have become a commonplace: ‘The wealth and peace in the 5th century Greece after the Persian Wars resulted in the flourishing of arts’ (cf. v. 93–102, Aristot. Pol. 8. 6. 6. 1341 a 28–32, Diod. 12. 1. 4). This presumed analogy with Greece leads to the ironic analogical conclusion that, since Romans enjoy the highest possible degree of prosperity and wealth, they must not only equal Greeks in painting, music and wrestling, but even surpass them.Пассаж Hor. Epist. 2, 1, 32–33 неудовлетворительно объясняется в научной литературе, хотя бессоюзие в ст. 32 правильно понимается как конклюзивное, а двустишие справедливо считается примером паралогизма. В статье подробно защищается толкование Л. Бёзинга (1972): связь мыслей предполагает имплицитную предпосылку, которая, по-видимому, была широко распространенным представлением: “Мир и благополучие после греко-персидских войн привели к расцвету искусств в Греции V в. до н.э.” (ср. ст. 93–102; Aristot. Pol. 8. 6. 6. 1341 a 28–32; Diod. 12. 1. 4). Эта подразумеваемая аналогия с греческой культурой и дает повод для иронического заключения по аналогии: раз римляне достигли апогея процветания, они должны не только сравняться с греками в музыке, живописи и борьбе, но и превзойти их
Timing of impulses from the central amygdala and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis to the brainstem
No full textThe amygdala and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) are thought to subserve distinct functions with the former mediating rapid fear responses to discrete sensory cues and the latter longer “anxiety-like” states in response to diffuse environmental contingencies. Yet, these structures are reciprocally connected and their projection sites overlap extensively. To shed light on the significance of BNST-amygdala connections, we compared the antidromic response latencies of BNST and central amygdala (CE) neurons to brainstem stimulation. Whereas the frequency distribution of latencies was unimodal in BNST neurons (~10 ms mode), that of CE neurons was bimodal (~10 and ~30 ms modes). However, after stria terminalis (ST) lesions, only short-latency antidromic responses were observed, suggesting that CE axons with long conduction times course through the ST. Compared to the direct route, the ST greatly lengthens the path of CE axons to the brainstem, an apparently disadvantageous arrangement. Since BNST and CE share major excitatory basolateral amygdala (BL) inputs, lengthening the path of CE axons might allow synchronization of BNST and CE impulses to brainstem when activated by BL. To test this, we applied electrical BL stimuli and compared orthodromic response latencies in CE and BNST neurons. The latency difference between CE and BNST neurons to BL stimuli approximated that seen between the antidromic responses of BNST cells and CE neurons with long-conduction times. These results point to a hitherto unsuspected level of temporal coordination between the inputs and outputs of CE and BNST neurons, supporting the idea of shared functions.The original publication is available at: http://jn.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/100/6/342
Trimalchio’s Superstitions: Traditional Customs or Their Distortion? I
Get PDFThe author objects to H. Petersmann’s view that Trimalchio’s superstitious practice distorts common Roman customs and betrays his ignorance. The first half of the paper discusses two passages (Petr. 32. 3–4; 30. 5–6). (1) Petersmann erroneously states that Romans did not wear rings on their ring fingers and, relying on Plin. NH 28. 24, claims that Romans took off their rings during a meal. Yet, there is direct evidence for the opposite (Ov. Am. 1. 4. 26; Macr. Sat. 7. 13. 6), and for several reasons Pliny’s words nam si mensa adsit are likely to have been corrupt or misinterpreted. (2) Relying on Vitruv. 3. 4. 4 (on entering temples), Petersmann presumes that entering with the right foot forward was confined to sacred places, so that the prescript to enter Trimalchio’s triclinium “dextro pede” renders divine honors to his house. Yet, passages like Ov. Ibis 101 with schol.; Apul. Met. 6. 26; Amm. Marc. 26. 6. 18 make it likely that not only temples, but also private houses were to be entered with the right foot forward.Автор возражает против мнения Х. Петерсмана о том, что суеверные обычаи Тримальхиона искажают общепринятую практику римлян и выдают его невежество. В первой половине статьи рассматриваются два эпизода (Petr. 32. 3–4; 30. 5–6). (1) Петерсман ошибочно считает, что римляне не носили кольцо на безымянном пальце, и, опираясь на Plin. NH XXVIII, 24, утверждает, что римляне снимали кольца во время трапезы. Между тем имеются прямые свидетельства, которые говорят об обратном (Ov. Am. 1. 4. 26; Macr. Sat. 7. 13. 6), и есть основания считать слова Плиния nam si mensa adsit искаженными или неверно истолкованными. (2) Опираясь на Vitruv. III, 4, 4 (о входе в храм), Петерсман предполагает, что обычай входить в помещение с правой ноги относился только к священным местам, так что предписание входить в триклиний Трималхиона “dextro pede” придавало его дому божественный статус вопреки обычаям. Тем не менее, на основании Ov. Ibis 101 cum schol.; Apul. Met. 6. 26; Amm. Marc. 26. 6. 18 и др. можно предположить, что с правой ноги входили не только в храмы, но и в другие помещения
Rehab Depot de la Plaine Saint-Denis
No full textRedesign for workshop Atelier Revision Intermediaire at the Depot de la Plaine Saint-Denis with a rehabilitation center as new functionRMITArchitecture and The Built Environmen
Severini e Denis
No full textL'A. prende in esame i controversi rapporti tra i due artisti, nel primo decennio del secolo e, più tardi, nella produzione di carattere religioso. Severini risulta influenzato da Denis più di quanto sostenga negli scritti teorici. The Author examines the controversial relationships between the two artists, in the first decade of the century and later on, in their religious production. Severini appears influenced by Denis more than he declares in his theoretic writings
Eumolpus’ Poetics (Petr. Sat. 118): Problems of Interpretation and Train of Thought
Get PDFThe article aims to restore the train of thought in Petr. Sat. 118. 3–5. In 118. 3, the manuscript
reading sanitatem (instead of the emendation vanitatem) is to be retained and taken not as
hinting at the lack of poetic ecstasy, but as ‘stylistic simplicity’ after Pavlova 2017. The adversative
ceterum does not imply that poetry is the polar opposite of rhetoric, but stresses that contrary
to the expectations of poeticizing orators, true poetry is hard toil. The first neque-clause
does not imply contrast with rhetoric, but calls for a copious style (in particular, copious sententiae).
The second neque-clause implies that poetry must absorb an immense literary tradition
in order to attain a copious language. Thus, the two coordinate neque-clauses in 118. 3 are
paired as requiring copiousness (a) in style and (b) in language. In the next two sentences, (a)
and (b) are specified in chiastic order: (b) the borrowed diction must be elevated (118. 4); (a)
the sententiae (as the primary stylistic ornament) must be integrated into the texture of the
poem (118. 5). The idea that absorbing literary tradition must enrich poetic language may be
paralleled in Hor. Epist. 2. 2. 115–118. Sententiae are regarded as an essential constituent of
poetic style, despite the ironic remark on sententiolae vibrantes in 118. 2
The bed nucleus of the stria terminalis mediates inter-individual variations in anxiety and fear
No full textWhile learning to fear stimuli that predict danger promotes survival, the inability to inhibit fear to inappropriate cues leads to a pernicious cycle of avoidance behaviors. Previous studies have revealed large inter-individual variations in fear responding with clinically anxious humans exhibiting a tendency to generalize learned fear to safe stimuli or situations. To shed light on the origin of these inter-individual variations, we subjected rats to a differential auditory fear conditioning paradigm where one conditioned auditory stimulus (CS+) was paired to footshocks whereas a second (CS-) was not. We compared the behavior of rats that received pre-training excitotoxic lesions of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) to that of sham rats. Sham rats exhibit a continuum of anxious/fearful behaviors. At one end of the continuum were rats that displayed a poor ability to discriminate between the CS+ and CS-, high contextual freezing, and an anxiety-like trait in the elevated plus maze (EPM). At the other end were rats that display less fear generalization to the CS-, lower freezing to context, and a non-anxious trait on the EPM. Although BNST-lesioned rats acquired similarly high levels of conditioned fear to the CS+, they froze less than sham rats to the CS-. In fact, BNST-lesioned rats behaved like sham rats with high discriminative abilities in that they exhibited low contextual fear and a nonanxious phenotype in the EPM. Overall, this suggests that inter-individual variations in fear generalization and anxiety phenotype are determined by BNST influences on the amygdala and/or its targets.Published in Journal of Neuroscience. Copyright Society for Neuroscience.Available from the Journal of Neuroscience: http://www.jneurosci.org
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