Four adult right-handed chronic stutterers and four age-matched controls completed H(2)(15)O PET scans involving overt and imagined oral reading tasks. During overt stuttered speech prominent activations occurred in SMA (medial), BA 46 (right), anterior insula (bilateral), and cerebellum (bilateral) plus deactivations in right A2 (BA 21/22). These activations and deactivations also occurred whe...

Subjects read narratives describing directions of objects around a standing or reclimng observer, who was periodically reoriented. RTs were measured to identify which object was currently located beyond the observer's head, feet, front, back, fight, and left. When the observer was standing, head/feet RTs were fastest, followed by front/back and then right/left. For the reclining observer, front...

Science, engineering, and all other learned disciplines, as well as our socio-politicaleconomic organizations are artifacts—results of our imagination and ingenuity. Modern corporation—a marvel of organizational engineering—would not be possible without imagination. To run organizations, in the face of the centrifugal forces of divergent self-interest and inherently dispersed information, we ne...

It is proposed that real and imagined movements activate identical neural networks. Cortical oscillatory activity is proposed as a mechanism through which distributed neuronal networks may bind into coherent ensembles and coupling of oscillators is used as a tool to investigate modulations of cortical connectivity. The aim of the present study was to test the hypothesis that, although the same ...

Men are generally more distressed by a partner’s sexual infidelity whereas women are generally more distressed by a partner’s emotional infidelity. The importance of the identity of the interloper, however, has been neglected. We explored the influence of relational proximity (i.e., the degree of genetic relatedness) on distress about infidelity. In Study 1, participants were most distressed wh...

This article evaluates two ways of characterization of EEG signals for classification of activity and linguistic inactivity, essential preprocess for the development of brain-computer interfaces (BCI) based on imagined speech. The first characterization used the calculation of the teager energy based on the discrete wavelet transform (DWT). The second characterization was based on the calculati...

The relationship between tourism and landscape has been extensively studied, but a conceptual framework to study cultural relationships is not specified in the literature. On basis of theory social imaginary, this article takes China’s Honghe Hani Terraces as an example how imagined potential conflicts. Content analysis on tourist discourses images media was conducted order identify imaginaries...

Many contend that end-state planning is no longer either acceptable or feasible. However, outside the formal system, communities do conceive radical proposals for places they live in. Our paper makes a plea renewed appreciation of Utopias by revealing diversity such imagined futures place. By means review nature 12 locally emerging in Netherlands, combined with literature review, we propose to ...