by Ruth Wodak(Editor), Michael Meyer(Editor) "Beyond description or superficial application, critical science in each domain asks further questions, such as those of responsibility, interests, and ideology....
The Nature of Magic An Anthropology of Consciousness
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The Nature of Magic An Anthropology of Consciousness
This work is an anthropological study of magic and consciousness conducted through an examination of nature spiritualities. Often collectively termed ‘nature religion’, nature spiritualities are concerned with developing intense personal relationships with nature, as demonstrated by my own encounter with the Snowdonian elements above. In Western cultures, nature, the earth, or ‘the environment’as it is now frequently called, has been progressively devalued by some dualistic conceptions of the universe that separate humans from nature.
Brain Research in Language addresses important neurological issues
involved in reading. The reading process is a highly composite
cognitive task, which relies on brain systems that were originally
devoted to other functions. The majority of studies in this area have
implemented behavioral methodologies, which provide information
concerning the entire cognitive sequence at the conclusion of
processing only, in the readers output. However, these measures cannot
specify all of the covert component operations that contribute to
reading, nor can they determine the relative processing times required
by the individual stages. Furthermore, they cannot determine which
processes occur serially, which occur in parallel and which overlap in
time (Brandeis & Lehmann, 1994; Johnson, 1995). Recent advancements
in the field of neuroscience and cognitive development, however, have
added a new dimension with regard to the research into the universal
and domain specific aspects of reading with the advent of innovative
neurophysiological measurement techniques. The most common are
electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging
(FMRI). These two methods provide researchers with the opportunity to
examine, in-depth, the neural correlates of the reading processing with
precise temporal and spatial resolutions, respectively. This book
presents data obtained from various studies employing behavioral,
electrophysiological and imaging methodologies in different languages
focusing on the regular reading process and the dyslexic population.
Psycholinguistics is an interdisciplinary field, and hence
relationships are at its heart. First and foremost is the relationship
between its two parent disciplines, psychology and linguistics, a
relationship which has changed and advanced over the half century of
the field's independent existence. At the beginning of the 21st
Century, psycholinguistics forms part of the rapidly developing
enterprise known as cognitive neuroscience, in which the relationship
between biology and behavior plays a central role. Psycholinguistics is
about language in communication, so that the relationship between
language production and comprehension has always been important, and as
psycholinguistics is an experimental discipline, it is likewise
essential to find the right relationship between model and experiment.
This book focuses in turn on each of these four cornerstone
relationships: Psychology and Linguistics, Biology and Behavior,
Production and Comprehension, and Model and Experiment. The authors are
from different disciplinary backgrounds, but share a commitment to
clarify the ways that their research illuminates the essential nature
of the psycholinguistic enterprise.
