Father involvement is an important aspect of the parenting process. Several studies have proven positive influence father on children’s development. Unfortunately, both research and implementation still dominated by mothers, creating a need for in child rearing. This literature review was compiled using three databases: Scopus, Sage Science Direct. The main objective this 1) to examine predic...

A modern statement about the structural relationship between an ellipsis site and its antecedent runs as follows. an elided XP must have a syntactically identical antecedent XP’, modulo traces This is quite a bizzare condition. Why should some parts of structure count for being identical, and others not? Of all the possible relations between two structures, why does this one describe the ellips...

Successful language use requires access to products of past processing within an evolving discourse. A central issue for any neurocognitive theory of language then concerns the role of memory variables during language processing. Under a cue-based retrieval account of language comprehension, linguistic dependency resolution (e.g., retrieving antecedents) is subject to interference from other in...

What representational state mediates between perception and action? Bence Nanay says pragmatic representations, which are outputs of perceptual systems. This commits him to the view that optic ataxics face difficulty in performing visually guided arm movements because relevant systems output their representations incorrectly. Here, I argue it is not enough say incorrectly; we also need know why...

The goal of this longitudinal study was to determine whether cognitions known to be correlated with depression precede, accompany, or follow an episode of depression. Depression-related cognitions and self-esteem were measured in a large community sample (N = 998) that was subsequently followed for 1 year. Sixty-three subjects were depressed at the time of assessment, 85 became depressed during...

We report a 13-year-old youth who initially presented with the typical rash of Henoch-Schonlein purpura followed a month later by a nephrotic syndrome and hematuria. Renal biopsy revealed crescentic IgA nephropathy. The patient was aggressively treated with steroids leading to a remission of his nephrotic syndrome. Three years after his initial presentation, he developed bloody diarrhea and Cro...