Cambridge reviews

Cambridge Medical Reviews: Neurobiology and Psychiatry

In the ensuing years there have been many studies searching for the abnormal anatomy and toxic substances. These two lines of study examine complementary issues of brain abnormalities apparent at the levels of structural and neurochemical anatomy. In the study of the post-mortem schizophrenic brain there are many important questions which are being addressed by modern neuropathology and neuroch...

Cambridge Medical Reviews: Neurobiology and Psychiatry

Introduction Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a means of detecting a spatially localized signal which arises from the magnetic property of atomic nuclei. Although the technique for inducing magnetic resonance was developed in 1946, it is only since the work of Lauterbur over 20 years later that magnetic resonance has been used to produce images'. Within a few years the clinical and research ...

REVIEWS

François Recanati , Literal Meaning , Cambridge : Cambridge University

Contrary to a certain traditional conception dating back at least to Locke, everyday linguistic communication is not a simple matter of putting one's thoughts into words for one's audience to put back into thoughts. This naive " code model " misses the fact that what a speaker means in uttering a sentence can be distinct in various ways from what the sentence means. She might not mean what she ...

OF CAMBRIDGE Cambridge Working Papers in Economics

I study strategy-proof assignment mechanisms where the agents reveal their preference rankings over the available objects. A stochastic mechanism returns lotteries over deterministic assignments, and mechanisms are compared according to first-order stochastic dominance. I show that non-wasteful strategy-proof mechanisms are not dominated by strategy-proof mechanisms, however nonwastefulness is ...