PURPOSE This study was undertaken to test the hypothesis that patients with epilepsy have abnormal imaginary coherence compared with control subjects. METHODS Thirty patients with seizures underwent magnetoencephalography (MEG) recording using a whole cortex MEG system. Conventional equivalent current dipoles (ECDs) and synthetic aperture magnetometry (SAM) were used to analyze MEG data. Neur...

Early research on imaginary companions viewed the phenomenon negatively. Imaginary companions were often associated with psychopathology and an inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality. The prevailing view on imaginary companions has shifted in recent years with many studies focusing on the positive attributes exhibited by children with imaginary friends. Methodological issues which...

The imagination and creativity of children is often puzzling to the adult mind. Pretend play and make-believe friends are often prevalent in the life of a child. Past research shows a relationship between the use of the imagination in children’s play and their social, cognitive, and emotional development. Furthermore, there are a number of gender differences in the type of imaginary play and pr...

The revolution of 2020 in Belarus has often been described as a new 1989 and there is no doubt that the emancipatory appeal Belarusian protests similar to one sustained revolutions. But will building democratic system—the major aspiration protesters—follow scripts liberalization westernization evidence other eastern central European countries? Will self-determination post-Lukashenka follow scen...

In the last chapter of volume The Chronicles Narnia, protagonists arrive in Aslan’s country, Narnia’s equivalent Heaven, or at least its outskirts. C.S. Lewis’s portrayal this imaginary world is course inspired by Bible, and previous literary depictions such as Bunyan’s Celestial City Pilgrim’s Progress Dante’s Paradiso Divine Comedy, but it also has a unique quality. Although on surface Lewis ...

Imaginary quadratic fields Q( √ −d), for integers d > 0, are perhaps the simplest number fields afterQ. They are equal parts helpful first example and misleading special case. LikeZ, the Gaussian integersZ[i] (the cased = 1) have unique factorization and a Euclidean algorithm. As d grows, however, these properties eventually fail, first the latter and then the former. The classical Euclidean al...