People with epilepsy are at heightened risk of sudden death compared to the general population. The leading cause of epilepsy-related premature mortality is sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). Postmortem investigation of people with SUDEP, including histological and toxicological analysis, does not reveal a cause of death, and the mechanisms of SUDEP remain largely unresolved. In this ...

Humans are highly social creatures. Evidence from the dot perspective task suggests that humans automatically track the perspective of other individuals – a disposition that, if true, may help to facilitate social interaction. However, variants of the original dot perspective task suggest the alternative interpretation that the effect in the task is not due to perspective taking. Here, we prese...

Social psychological research demonstrates that the same behavior might lead to different evaluations depending on whether it is shown by a man or a woman. With a view to design decisions with regard to virtual humans it is relevant to test whether this pattern also applies to gendered virtual humans. In a 2x2 between subjects experiment we manipulated the Rapport Agent’s gaze behavior and its ...

Last Christmas, our toddler asked Santa for a stethoscope. While initially “a black one like Mommy’s” was requested, my daughter learned that a pink and purple Dora stethoscope was possible and was impressed with Santa when it arrived. She wore it proudly, even exclaiming loudly during a toilet-training moment: “This doctor has got to Poo!” “Helping sick people,” the gist of our job as emergenc...

according to the philosophical principles of higher wisdom (motealiyeh), especially the theory of substantial movement (hareka fil-jawhar) and psychology, it look impossible for human being to return to worldly life after his/her death. so refutation of the theory of reincarnation in the sadra’s system will not be very hard, especially when considering the rule of impossibility of return (emten...