Neuroscientists and philosophers, among others, have long questioned the contribution of bodily experience to the constitution of self-consciousness. Contemporary research answers this question by focusing on the notions of sense of agency and/or sense of ownership. Recently, however, it has been proposed that the bodily self might also be rooted in bodily motor experience, that is, in the expe...

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the emotional perspective of having Dyslexia, a specific learning difficulty that not only affects literacy but many aspects of an individual’s life, from childhood into adulthood. This paper investigates negative emotional coping which took place, which included self-harming with: alcohol, food, body injury, suicide thoughts and suicidal attempts. Method...

Claims fraud is an increasingly vexing problem confronting the insurance industry. In this empirical study, we apply Kohonen's Self-Organizing Feature Map to classify automobile bodily injury (BI) claims by the degree of fraud suspicion. Feed forward neural networks and a back propagation algorithm are used to investigate the validity of the Feature Map approach. Comparative experiments illustr...

contemporary literary traumatheory indicates that experiencing trauma creates a fear that destroys identity. in fact, experiencing trauma creates a new identity for the victim. the representation of the trauma and the formation of the new identity for the victim are the building blocks of trauma novels. due to the nature of trauma, it seems impossible to fully describe traumatic experiences by ...