It is often maintained that practical freedom is a capacity to act on our view of what we ought to do and in particular on our view of what it would be best to do. Here, I discuss an important exception to that claim, namely habitual agency. Acting out of habit is widely regarded as a form of reflex or even as compulsive behaviour but much habitual ...
David Owens
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Habitual vs non-habitual manual actions: an ERP study on overt movement execution. [PDF]
This study explored the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying the planning and execution of an overt goal-related handle rotation task. More specifically, we studied the neural basis of motor actions concerning the influence of the grasp choice.
Jan Westerholz +3 more
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Construction of Social Aspects of Marginalization and Identification of Livability Damages in Hoveyzeh City Using GIS [PDF]
Informal housing is a common style of urban growth in most developing countries and is organized somehow which is neither urban nor rural. This study aimed to understand the daily life experience of citizens in the suburbs of Hoveyzeh city in Khuzestan ...
Marziyeh Shahryari, Fatemeh Hamidi
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Validating Habitual and Goal-Directed Decision-Making Performance Online in Healthy Older Adults
Everyday decision-making is supported by a dual-system of control comprised of parallel goal-directed and habitual systems. Over the past decade, the two-stage Markov decision task has become popularized for its ability to dissociate between goal ...
Kaori L. Ito +6 more
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Habituation in songbirds [PDF]
Songbirds respond to initial playback of a recorded conspecific song in numerous ways, from changes in gene expression in the brain to changes in overt physical activity. When the same song is presented repeatedly, responses have been observed to habituate at multiple levels: molecular, cellular and organismal.
Shu, Dong, David F, Clayton
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Hermeneutics of Ritual From Habitual to Sacral [PDF]
The article represents an attempt to analyze peculiarities of the formation and development of the discourses of ritual. Author describes the results of semiotic and hermeneutic researches of ritual which are based on the concept of genetic connection ...
A. PRILUTSKI
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Evaluation of SCUBE-1 Level and Carotid Intima Media Thickness in Recurrent Pregnancy Loss
INTRODUCTION: Evaluation of the signal peptide complement C1r/C1s, Uegf, and Bmp1 (CUB), and epidermal growth factor-like domain-containing protein-1 (SCUBE-1) levels and carotid intima media thickness (CIMT) between the group of patients with and ...
Sabri Colak +5 more
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Exploring Teaching Perspectives Embraced by Teachers in Teaching Agricultural Sciences in Secondary Schools in South Africa [PDF]
The South African Curriculum Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) document stipulates that in teaching Agricultural Sciences (AGRIS), teachers should cement their pedagogical practices in three aspects: knowledge, skill, and values/attitudes. The statement
Nonhlanhla Fortunate Nduku
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Cerebral blood flow and behavioural effects of caffeine in habitual and non-habitual consumers of caffeine: A near infrared spectroscopy study [PDF]
Caffeine has been shown to modulate cerebral blood flow, with little evidence of tolerance to these effects following habitual use. However, previous studies have focused on caffeine levels much higher than those found in dietary servings and have ...
Haskell, Crystal +3 more
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Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate factors associated with thrombosis that may contribute to recurrent pregnancy loss (habitual abortion), specifically differences in serum levels of platelet-activating factor and thrombin-activatable ...
Ayla Eser +9 more
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