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Explanation and Cognition [PDF]

, 2000
These essays draw on work in the history and philosophy of science, the philosophy of mind and language, the development of concepts in children, conceptual.
Keil, Frank C., Wilson, Robert A.
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Adult Sex Ratio as a Demographic Feedback Linking Mating Systems, Parental Care, and Evolution

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Breeding systems are some of the most diverse social behavior, and our team is investigation the evolutionary causes of this diversity. This review summarises our research carried out at the University of Bath. We argue that demographic components of wild populations, especially the adult sex ratio, plays a key role driving breeding system variation ...
Tamás Székely, Oscar G. Miranda
wiley   +1 more source

Marty and Brentano [PDF]

, 2017
The Swiss philosopher Anton Marty (Schwyz, 1847 - Prague, 1914) belongs, with Carl Stumpf, to the first circle of Brentano’s pupils. Within Brentano’s school (and, to some extent, in the secondary literature), Marty has often been considered (in ...
Cesalli, Laurent, Mulligan, Kevin
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Schooling Trajectories and the Development of Brain Dynamics: A Comparative Study of Montessori and Traditional Education

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
We investigate whether Montessori and traditional schooling systems shape the developmental trajectory of large‐scale brain dynamics in different ways. We quantify the arrow of time (“non‐reversibility”) in neural activity during resting state and movie‐watching, revealing distinct maturational patterns.
Elvira del Agua, Anira Escrichs, Yonatan Sanz Perl, Morten L. Kringelbach, Adele Diamond, Solange Denervaud, Gustavo Deco   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measurement characteristics and genome-wide correlates of lifetime brain atrophy estimated from a single MRI

Nature Communications
As a cardinal marker of brain ageing, lifetime brain atrophy obtained from a cross-sectional magnetic resonance image promises to boost statistical power to uncover novel genetic mechanisms of neurodegeneration.
Anna E. Fürtjes, Isabelle F. Foote, Charley Xia, Gail Davies, Joanna Moodie, Adele Taylor, David C. Liewald, Paul Redmond, Janie Corley, Andrew M. McIntosh, Heather C. Whalley, Susana Muñoz Maniega, Maria Valdés Hernández, Ellen Backhouse, Karen Ferguson, Mark E. Bastin, Joanna Wardlaw, Javier de la Fuente, Andrew D. Grotzinger, Michelle Luciano, W. David Hill, Ian J. Deary, Elliot M. Tucker-Drob, Simon R. Cox   +23 more
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The Linguistic and Cognitive Effects of a One-Week Online Italian Language Course: A Pilot Study

Journal of the European Second Language Association
This pilot study examined whether one week of intensive online Italian instruction could yield significant changes in bilinguals’ verbal fluency skills in their second language (L2) (Italian) and first language (L1) (English), as well as in attentional ...
Mattia Zingaretti, Roberta Spelorzi, Taranjit K. Sohanpaul, Antonella Sorace   +3 more
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Project-based learning in English for specific purposes instruction in higher education: Opportunities and challenges [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini
Project-based learning (PBL) is increasingly recognized as a pedagogically effective approach in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) instruction at the tertiary level of education.
Zečević Snežana M., Dilparić Branislava M., Andrejević Ana M.   +2 more
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Descriptive Indexicals, Deferred Reference, and Anaphora

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2020
The objectives of this paper are twofold. The first is to present a differentiation between two kinds of deferred uses of indexicals: those in which indexical utterances express singular propositions (I term them deferred reference proper) and those ...
Kijania-Placek Katarzyna
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“Critical Thinking: An Approach that Synthesizes Analytic Philosophy” [PDF]

, 2017
This paper concentrates on the resurrection of the journey of analytic philosophy from the perspective of ‘critical thinking,’ a tool of proper thought and understanding.
Chakraborty, Sanjit
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Epistemology and conceptual resources for the development of learning technologies [PDF]

, 2007
The issues raised by the design and development of technologies to enhance learning has led to a demand for an appropriate language and form of conceptualisation.
Alrechtsen, Bakhurst, Boyle, Brandom, Conole, Gibson, Gregory, Gregory, Jones, McDowell, Norman, Norman, Sawyer, Sellars, Stroffregen, Webb   +15 more
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