“Because they are mostly bus children” – regionalisation of cultural participation in peripheral rural areas

Specialized mechanisms for theory of mind: are mental representations special because they are mental or because they are representations?

Does theory of mind depend on a capacity to reason about representations generally or on mechanisms selective for the processing of mental state representations? In four experiments, participants reasoned about beliefs (mental representations) and notes (non-mental, linguistic representations), which according to two prominent theories are closely matched representations because both are repres...

Prototypes are attractive because they are easy on the mind.

People tend to prefer highly prototypical stimuli--a phenomenon referred to as the beauty-in-averageness effect. A common explanation of this effect proposes that prototypicality signals mate value. Here we present three experiments testing whether prototypicality preference results from more general mechanisms-fluent processing of prototypes and preference for fluently processed stimuli. In tw...

kids and teenager are sleepy at school because the electronic media they have in their bedrooms leads them to have delayed sleep phase disorder (dspd)

bserved by many teachers that most of the time, mumbling and searching for their intended words, students complain why they have forgotten the words they have learned in the previous semesters. they ask for some new ways that may help them to recall and apply the learned words more efficiently, since as they declare one of the most important skills in foreign language learning is having a g...

[Poisonings of children in rural areas].

Margaret McCartney: Prescribing incentives feel grubby because they are.

Last week it emerged that Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group has suggested that GPs should review patients in nursing homes and “rationalise” prescribing. If enough drugs are stopped or switched to meet the threshold, the GPs keep half the cash saved. Cue righteous outrage from the national press. It feels grubby because it is. There’s little doubt that incentive programmes, particularly ...