The Philosophical Significance of Wittgenstein’s Experiments on Rhythm, Cambridge 1912–13 [PDF]
, 2020 Wittgenstein’s experiments on rhythm, conducted in Charles Myers’s laboratory in Cambridge during the years 1912–13, are his earliest recorded engagement in thinking about music, not just appreciating it, and philosophizing by means of musical thinking ...
Guter, Eran
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Mechanisms of postcardiac surgery atrial fibrillation: more pieces in a difficult puzzle [PDF]
, 2009 No abstract ...
Antony J. Workman +13 more
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Circadian and Ultradian Rhythms of Free Glucocorticoid Hormone Are Highly Synchronized between the Blood, the Subcutaneous Tissue, and the Brain [PDF]
, 2012 Total glucocorticoid hormone levels in plasma of various species, including humans, follow a circadian rhythm that is made up from an underlying series of hormone pulses. In blood most of the glucocorticoid is bound to corticosteroid-binding globulin and
Droste, Susanne K +4 more
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Approximate, not perfect synchrony maximizes the downstream effectiveness of excitatory neuronal ensembles [PDF]
, 2014 The most basic functional role commonly ascribed to synchrony in the brain is that of amplifying excitatory neuronal signals. The reasoning is straightforward: When positive charge is injected into a leaky target neuron over a time window of positive ...
Börgers, Christoph +2 more
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The joint role of trained, untrained, and observed actions at the origins of goal recognition [PDF]
, 2016 Recent findings across a variety of domains reveal the benefits of self-produced experience on object exploration, object knowledge, attention, and action perception. The influence of active experience may be particularly important in infancy, when motor
Gerson, Sarah, Woodward, Amanda
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Electronic Dance Music in Narrative Film [PDF]
, 2019 As a growing number of filmmakers are moving away from the traditional model of orchestral underscoring in favor of a more contemporary approach to film sound, electronic dance music (EDM) is playing an increasingly important role in current soundtrack ...
Filoseta, Roberto
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Shared reading of children's interactive picture books [PDF]
, 2014 We report on a study of children and parents shared reading of interactive printed books. We investigated the differences between books with interactive features and books with expressive typography in order to evaluate which features within a book ...
B. Bongers +11 more
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Understanding and Coming to Understand [PDF]
, 2017 Many philosophers take understanding to be a distinctive kind of knowledge that involves grasping dependency relations; moreover, they hold it to be particularly valuable.
Lynch, Michael
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The Birth of Tragedy in the Cinquecento: Humanism and Literary History [PDF]
, 2011 Humanist literary historians treated Aristotle’s ‘Poetics’ in a distinctive way: as a historical source. How had the Greek tragedy arisen, what was its relation to the comedy, and how was it performed?
Haugen, Kristine Louise
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Heavy Hero or Digital Dummy? Multimodal Player–Avatar Relations in Final Fantasy 7 [PDF]
, 2004 This article analyses the player-avatar relation in Final Fantasy 7, drawing on multimodality theory to analyse textual structures both in the game and in the discourse of player-interviews and fan writing.
Burn, Andrew, Schott, Gareth
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