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Cry to Heaven: a Play to Celebrate One Hundred Years of Chinese Spoken Drama by Nick Rongjun Yu
No full textYutian (Cry to Heaven) is the third Chinese stage adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin between 1907 and 2007. The first, Heinu yutian lu (Black Slave’s Cry to Heaven) by Zeng Xiaogu, was staged by Chinese students in Tokyo in 1907; the second, Heinu hen (Regret of the Black Slaves) by Ouyang Yuqian, was mounted as part of the fiftieth anniversary of the first production; and the third, Yutian (Cry to Heaven), commemorated the hundredth anniversary of Chinese spoken drama (huaju) in 2007. Each adaptation has a different focus that reflects the social, political, and cultural conditions of its time, and together the works provide a historical view of the development of Chinese spoken drama. The most recent production, by Nick Rongjun Yu, juxtaposes one hundred years of dramatic history with scenes from Uncle Tom’s Cabin, making the American slaves’ struggle to gain freedom a metaphor for Chinese dramatists’ efforts to achieve their own.Keywords: Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Chinese plays,
Chinese spoken drama,
Uncle Tom’s Cabin,
huaju,
slavery,
Chinese cultur
Stress potentiates decision biases: A stress induced deliberation-to-intuition (SIDI) model
No full textAbstractHumans often make decisions in stressful situations, for example when the stakes are high and the potential consequences severe, or when the clock is ticking and the task demand is overwhelming. In response, a whole train of biological responses to stress has evolved to allow organisms to make a fight-or-flight response. When under stress, fast and effortless heuristics may dominate over slow and demanding deliberation in making decisions under uncertainty. Here, I review evidence from behavioral studies and neuroimaging research on decision making under stress and propose that stress elicits a switch from an analytic reasoning system to intuitive processes, and predict that this switch is associated with diminished activity in the prefrontal executive control regions and exaggerated activity in subcortical reactive emotion brain areas. Previous studies have shown that when stressed, individuals tend to make more habitual responses than goal-directed choices, be less likely to adjust their initial judgment, and rely more on gut feelings in social situations. It is possible that stress influences the arbitration between the emotion responses in subcortical regions and deliberative processes in the prefrontal cortex, so that final decisions are based on unexamined innate responses. Future research may further test this ‘stress induced deliberation-to-intuition’ (SIDI) model and examine its underlying neural mechanisms
Key functional circuitry altered in schizophrenia involves parietal regions associated with sense of self
No full textThere is still no clear consensus as to which of the many functional and structural changes in the brain in schizophrenia are of most importance, although the main focus to date has been on those in the frontal and cingulate cortices. In the present study, we have used a novel holistic approach to identify brain-wide functional connectivity changes in medicated schizophrenia patients, and functional connectivity changes were analyzed using resting-state fMRI data from 69 medicated schizophrenia patients and 62 healthy controls. As far as we are aware, this is the largest population reported in the literature for a resting-state study. Voxel-based morphometry was also used to investigate gray and white matter volume changes. Changes were correlated with illness duration/symptom severity and a support vector machine analysis assessed predictive validity. A network involving the inferior parietal lobule, superior parietal gyrus, precuneus, superior marginal, and angular gyri was by far the most affected (68% predictive validity compared with 82% using all connections) and different components correlated with illness duration and positive and negative symptom severity. Smaller changes occurred in emotional memory and sensory and motor processing networks along with weakened interhemispheric connections. Our findings identify the key functional circuitry altered in schizophrenia involving the default network midline cortical system and the cortical mirror neuron system, both playing important roles in sensory and cognitive processing and particularly self-processing, all of which are affected in this disorder. Interestingly, the functional connectivity changes with the strongest links to schizophrenia involved parietal rather than frontal regions. Hum Brain Mapp, 2012
IS IT WORTH STRESSING OVER?: EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF ACUTE STRESS ON CHEATING BEHAVIOUR AND LIE DETECTION
No full textBachelor'sBachelor of Social Sciences (Honours
THE EFFECT OF FRAMING ON PRECOMMITMENT IN THE ULTIMATUM GAME
No full textBachelor'sBachelor of Social Sciences (Honours
THE INFLUENCE OF FAMILY SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS AND THEORY OF MIND ON YOUNG CHILDREN'S PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOUR
No full textMaster'sMASTER OF SOC.SCI. (RSH-FASS
NEUROCOGNITIVE MECHANISMS OF REGRET AND ITS DYSFUNCTIONS IN DEPRESSION
No full textPh.DDOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (FASS
AGE DIFFERENCES IN RISK TAKING ACROSS DOMAINS: EXAMINING RISK INTENTION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS
No full textBachelor'sBachelor of Social Sciences (Honours
AGE DIFFERENCES IN APPROACH AND AVOIDANCE LEARNING: LOSS AND GAIN TASKS
No full textBachelor'sBachelor of Social Sciences (Honours
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