<p>This thematic issue provides the first comprehensive overview of women opposition leaders and their performance. Setting stage for a new research agenda, this editorial piece integrates theoretical empirical insights at intersection three distinct areas: political opposition, leadership, gender politics. It discusses various notions identifies main lines inquiry: (a) career pathways tr...

The current study examined whether thematic relations of the novel words could be acquired via descriptive episodes, and if yes, whether it could be generalized to thematically related words in a different scenario. In Experiment 1, a lexical decision task was used where the novel words served as primes for target words in four conditions: (1) corresponding concepts of the novel words, (2) them...

s: Thematic Session Flood 1 THEMATIC SESSION B2: FLOOD Chairperson: Jayaseelam Chairman, Central Water Commission, New Delhi

Low back pain is the world’s most disabling condition, involving all populations and crossing all boundaries [1, 2]. Such pain leads to tremendous socioeconomic and healthcare consequences. In the United States alone, the direct and indirect costs associated with low back pain surpass 90 billion USD per year, with similar adjusted rates in different countries [3]. Low back pain is the second co...

Previous behavioral data suggest that the salience of taxonomic (e.g., hammer-saw) and thematic (e.g., hammer-nail) conceptual relations depends on object categories. Furthermore, taxonomic and thematic relations would be differentially grounded in the sensory-motor system. Using a picture matching task, we asked adult participants to identify taxonomic and thematic relations for non-manipulabl...