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Unveiling the neural mechanisms of supernatural fiction comprehension using fNIRS [PDF]

npj Science of Learning
This study used fNIRS (functional near-infrared spectroscopy) to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying the processing of supernatural fiction, featuring either fictional or realistic characters, compared to real-world stories.
Xiaodong Xu, Cheng Jia, Kang Chen, Lijuan Chen   +3 more
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Analysis of Bertrand Russell's theological discussions in the Allameh Ja’fari's view [PDF]

آموزه‌‌های فلسفه اسلامي, 2023
The confrontation of Islamic philosophers with Western philosophers can be examined from different angles. Allameh Ja’fari pays a lot of attention to the opinions of Western thinkers; among these figures is Bertrand Russell, who has analyzed by Allameh ...
Hamedeh Rastaei, Abdullah Nasri
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El terror argentino

Amerika, 2023
The question as to why, towards the end of the XXth Century and the first decades of the XXIst, the literature and cinema of some South American countries, most notably Argentina and Chile, embraced the protocols of horror literature and associated ...
Carlos Gamerro
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Irreality from Linguacognitive Viewpoint: Comparative Aspect of Study (on English and Russian Material)

Izvestiâ Ûžnogo Federalʹnogo Universiteta: Filologičeskie Nauki, 2017
The article is devoted to the investigation of linguistic and cognitive aspects of irreality in English and Russian languages. Since the study of irreality in linguistic and cognitive aspects has no long history the importance is emphasized.
Tatyana N. Nikulshina
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Blue Chambers, Bluebooks, and Contes Bleus: Gothic Terror and Female Deviance in Nineteenth-Century Adaptations of ‘Bluebeard’

Humanities, 2023
With its suspenseful atmosphere, mysterious and murderous male protagonist, and magical objects, it is hardly surprising that Charles Perrault’s conte bleu ‘La Barbe bleue’ (1697) was the inspiration for numerous Gothic tales in the nineteenth century ...
Alessandro Cabiati
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‘Dolls in Agony’: Vernon Lee in Southern Spain

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2016
When Vernon Lee visited Southern Spain in 1889, she found the Catholic practices of the country extremely unsettling. The overloaded decoration of the churches and the preference for representations of bleeding Christs were, in Lee’s eyes, ‘obscene’ and ‘
Leire Barrera-Medrano
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THE MACHINE IN THE GHOST: TRANSHUMANISM AND THE ONTOLOGY OF INFORMATION

Zygon, 2023
An ontology of information belies our common intuitions about reality today and animates and governs both explicit scholarly study in philosophy and the sciences as well as the ideologies that are growing out of them.
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Divine Hysteria. Readings of the Sacred Disease in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 2021
While historians have explored the deployment of medical expertisein studies of the supernatural for some time, the medical report on supernaturalphenomena thus far has evaded similar scholarly attention.
Tine Van Osselaer, Kristof Smeyers
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“I saw at a glance that your case was exceptional, and that you also were Occult”: Comedy, magic and exceptional disabilities in Stella Benson’s Living Alone (1919)

Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2021
That Stella Benson’s Living Alone (1919) has received little critical attention can probably be explained both by its paradoxical articulation of absurd comedy, fantasy and psychological realism, and by the overwhelming influence of exceptional patterns ...
Leslie de Bont
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The Role of Ritual in Children’s Acquisition of Supernatural Beliefs

Religions, 2023
This study investigated how observing the ritualisation of objects can influence children’s encoding and defence of supernatural beliefs. Specifically, we investigated if ritualising objects leads children to believe those objects might be magical ...
Anna Mathiassen, Mark Nielsen
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