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In Praise of Illusions: Giacomo Leopardi‘s Ultraphilosophy
Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 2010 Judging from his most prominent works, the Italian poet and writer Giacomo Leopardi (1898-1937) may seem to have been a rather isolated proponent of classical thinking in his backward Recanati during Europe‘s powerful thrust to modernity.
Geir Sigurðsson +2 more
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The 20‐item Noise Pareidolia Task: normative data and performance in MCI‐LB and DLB
Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease MonitoringINTRODUCTION Visual perceptual difficulties occur in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). Normative data and cut scores for DLB and mild cognitive impairment with Lewy bodies (MCI‐LB) are needed for the 20‐item Noise Pareidolia Task.
Tanis J. Ferman +17 more
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, 2008 Noam Chomsky called for people to vote for Obama ‘without illusions’. I fully share Chomsky’s doubts about the real consequences of Obama’s victory: from a pragmatic perspective, it is quite possible that Obama will make only some minor improvements ...
Zizek, Slavoj
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, 2020 According to the idealist, facts about phenomenal experience determine facts about the physical world. Any such view must account for illusions: cases where there is a discrepancy between the physical world and our experiences of it.
Smithson, Robert
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Mental health is a critical issue globally, with young people being one of the most affected groups. Young people have campaigned vehemently for a ‘curriculum for life,’ arguing that their education is failing to meet their needs (British Council, 2022).
Lisa Stephenson, Helen Young
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Nature, 1945 IN his letter, Mr. J. Phelps1 refers to an interesting point in the manufacture of threepences, namely, their expansion in the coining press into dodecagonal steel collars. The fact that the corners of coins subsequent to 1940 are more rounded than are those of earlier ones seems to point to a change in the collars at about that date.
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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2021 In 1976, Harry McGurk and John MacDonald published their now-famous article, “Hearing Lips and Seeing Voices.” The study was a remarkable demonstration of visual influence on auditory speech perception: when an auditory stimulus (e.g., /ba/) was presented with the face of a talker articulating a different syllable (e.g., /ga/), listeners experienced an
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Folk Illusions as Emic, Educational Prompt
, 2018 It is well established that illusions—when considered as a part of perceptual experience—facilitate learning. Visit the juvenile nonfiction section of educational books on illusions at your local library, and you will find a plethora of texts aimed at ...
Barker, Kenneth B
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English teachers' journeys since the 2020 Iteration of Black Lives Matter
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The 2020 resurgence of Black Lives Matter (BLM) mobilised students in England to demand greater representation of racially minoritised voices in English curriculums—a call highlighted by stark inequity: just 1.5% of GCSE texts studied are by racially minoritised authors, despite racially minoritised students comprising 38.0% of the student ...
Adrian Fernandes
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PLoS ONE, 2019 IntroductionPositive psychotic experiences are associated with increased rate of white noise speech illusions in patients and their relatives. However, findings have been conflicting to what degree speech illusions are associated with subclinical ...
E Schepers, J van Os, R Lousberg
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