Fear and the focus of attention " Luc Faucher

Reason and Rationality

Over the past few decades, reasoning and rationality have been the focus of enormous interdisciplinary attention, attracting interest from philosophers, psychologists, economists, statisticians and anthropologists, among others. The widespread interest in the topic reflects the central status of reasoning in human affairs. But it also suggests that there are many different though related projec...

Pete Mandik Neural Accomplishment of Objectivity

Penultimate English language draft of Mandik, Pete. (in press). L'accomplissement Neural de L'objectivité [The Neural Accomplishment of Objectivity]. In: Elizabeth Ennen, Pierre Poirier, Luc Faucher, and Eric Racine (eds.) Des Neurones à la Philosophie: Neurophilosophie et philosophie des neurosciences [Neurons with philosophy: Neurophilosophy and philosophy of the neurosciences]. Paris: DeBoec...

Racism: Against Jorge Garcia's Moral and Psychological Monism

Design and application of a bioluminescent biosensor for detection of toxicity using Huh7-CMV-luc cell line

Cell-based biosensors (CBBs) are becoming important tools for biosecurity applications and rapid diagnostics in food microbiology for their unique capability of detecting hazardous materials. Pollutants, such as heavy metals and chemicals, are now considered as a global threat and are associated with detrimental health outcomes. Fast and accurate detection of pollutants is essential to reduce t...

The effect of focus of attention on electromyography activity of the rectus abdominus muscle in vertical jump

Various studies have shown that the external focus of attention is better than the internal focus of attention. But, so far no study has been investigated the level of electrical activity of the rectus abdominus muscle as a trunk stabilizer muscle. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of focus of attention on electromyography activity of the rectus abdominus muscle...