Voluntary action - in particular the ability to produce desired effects in the environment - is fundamental to human existence. According to ideomotor theory we can achieve goals in the environment by means of anticipating their outcomes. We aimed at providing neurophysiological evidence for the assumption that performing actions calls for the activation of brain areas associated with the senso...

Marcel Lajeunesse, Éric Leroux et Marie D. Martel (dir.), Pour une histoire des femmes bibliothécaires au Québec — Portraits parcours de vies professionnelles, coll. « Gestion l’information », Montréal : Presses l’Université du Québec, 2020, 200 p., ISBN 978-2-7605-5251-7

Canadian university libraries, Canadian university presses, and non-university scholarly presses at Canadian universities were surveyed in the first part of 2010 as to the level of their support of Open Access (OA) journal publishing. Respondents were asked about journal hosting services in their organization as well as their thoughts on internal and external support for open access publishing....

The console gaming industry is experiencing a revolution in terms of user control, due in large part to Nintendo’s introduction of the Wii remote. The online open source development community has embraced the Wii remote, integrating the inexpensive technology into numerous applications. Some of the more interesting applications demonstrate how the remote hardware can be leveraged for nonstandar...

The sense of agency is an intriguing aspect of human consciousness and is commonly defined as the sense that one is the author of their own actions and their consequences. In the current study, we varied the number of action alternatives (one, three, seven) that participants could select from and determined the effects on intentional binding which is believed to index the low-level sense of age...

Three experiments were performed to explore the effects of mismatches between actions (key-presses) and the contents of auditory feedback (pitch events) during music performance. Pianists performed melodies from memory during altered auditory feedback that was synchronized with key-presses but matched the pitch of other sequence events. Feedback direction was manipulated by presenting pitches t...

In separate groups of rats forward and backward procedures for classical defensive conditioning were superimposed on on-going bar pressing for food. The forward conditioned stimulus elicited suppression of bar presses, indicating acquisition of fear. The backward stimulus paired with identical shock elicited behaviour typical for rats in a condition of safety and caused an increase of bar press...

Brief tactile presses stimulated the index and middle fingers of the right and left hands. The stimulation on each hand consisted of a triplet of presses. Each triplet was composed of a brief press to one finger (e.g., the middle finger), followed by a brief press to the other finger (e.g., the index finger), and by a final simultaneous press to both fingers of a given hand. With equal probabil...

Este artículo reseña: Florence Bourillon, Nathalie Gorochov, Boris Noguès et Loïc Vadelorge (dir.). L’université la ville. Les espaces universitaires leurs usages en europe du xiiie au xxie siècle. Rennes, Presses Universitaires de 2018, 305 pp.