Miriam B. Goodman is an Associate Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University. Her lab is a collection of people with diverse training and a shared interest in understanding how sensation works. Her first exposure to scientific research was as a high school student in Bethesda, MD, when she wrote custom scientific software at NIH. After obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in...

Wild C. elegans and other nematodes live in dirt and eat bacteria, relying on mechanoreceptor neurons (MRNs) to detect collisions with soil particles and other animals as well as forces generated by their own movement. MRNs may also help animals detect bacterial food sources. Hermaphrodites and males have 22 putative MRNs; males have an additional 46 MRNs, most, if not all of which are needed f...

Este ensayo de Miriam Bratu Hansen, que se publica por primera vez en español, apareció originalmente el año 1999 la prestigiosa revista académica Critical Inquiry. Se trata un texto pronto convirtió una referencia obligada, no solo para los especialistas obra Walter Benjamin, sino teóricos del cine y medios comunicación, así como campo estudios culturales anglosajones. El Hansen marcó directri...

Asking distinguished European colleagues in the field of ICT in public administration to contribute in retrospective mode to a celebratory event and, from that, to write up their thoughts for this journal has proved a great success. Miriam Lips’ collection of these essays, together with her own thoughtful contributions should prove of value to scholars working in this field, not least for the w...

One Saturday morning when Miriam was four, we went to breakfast at the Cracker Barrel. She asked if we could go look at the toys while we waited for our order. We walked hand in hand past the greeter and the greeter kindly smiled at us and said to Miriam "how nice you are spending the day with grandpa." I smiled and Miriam gripped my hand and said defiantly to the woman "he is my papa not my gr...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Keep your eyes on the ball: 10 Smooth pursuit eye movements enhance prediction of visual motion 11 12 13 Miriam Spering*, Alexander C. Schütz, Doris I. Braun, & Karl R. Gegenfurtner 14 15 Department of Psychology, Experimental Psychology, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany 16 Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 17 C...