People not only care about outcomes, they also value the procedures which lead to the outcomes. Procedural utility is a potentially important source of human well-being. This paper aims at introducing the concept of procedural utility into economics, and argues that it should be incorporated more widely into economic theory and empirical research. Three building blocks of a concept of procedura...

Retinotopic maps form prior to the development of vision, when retinal waves serve as a robust source of correlated neural activity. Two recent studies provide critical insights into the features of retinal waves that may be instructive for the formation of retinotopic maps.

It is suggested that generations are linked to the need of calculating curvature of space via a deformed or discrete calculus. Quantization would limit the deformation, building three generations, and not four, as other interpretation could imply.

This article argues that the binary between quantitative and critical geography is pseudo rather than real. The duality arose, the article suggests, because of the peculiar postwar intellectual history of human geography in which the critical approach followed the quantitative one. Accordingly, for internal sociological reasons, it was necessary for the critical approach to excise everything th...

Experiencing tactile facial stimulation while seeing synchronous stimuli on the face of another individual induces "enfacement," i.e., the subjective illusory experience of ownership of the other's face (explicit measure) and the attribution of the others' facial features to one's own face (implicit measure). Here we expanded previous knowledge by investigating if the tendency to include the ot...

The implementation of MELD and PELD represented an enormous advance toward allocation of deceased donor livers according to objective criteria that reflect illness severity. PELD, developed using the Studies of Pediatric Liver Transplantation database, formed the basis of liver allocation for children (<18 years) (1). To acknowledge that a mathematical model cannot adequately reflect every indi...