CONCERNING PREPOTENCY

Refining the understanding of inhibitory processes: how response prepotency is created and overcome.

Understanding (a) how responses become prepotent provides insights into when inhibition is needed in everyday life. Understanding (b) how response prepotency is overcome provides insights for helping children develop strategies for overcoming such tendencies. Concerning (a), on tasks such as the day-night Stroop-like task, is the difficulty with inhibiting saying the name of the stimulus due to...

Concerning Inoculation

the efficacy of that procedure in the way which had been commended, for such purposes, in my evidence to the Plague Commission of 1898-99, and in which I had been testing curative treatments in India. The experiment on that occasion was not completed by them, and although the preliminary statement which they made oil the results was favourable to the therapy, they did not persevere with the stu...

Scientific Issues concerning Androids Scientific Issues concerning Androids

In the development of humanoids, both the appearance and behavior of the robots are significant issues. However, designing the robot’s appearance, especially to give it a humanoid one, was always a role of industrial designers. To tackle the problem of appearance and behavior, two approaches are necessary: one from robotics and the other from cognitive science. The approach from robotics tries ...

Concerning Histidine and Carnosine

Our knowledge of carnosine is largely due to the admirable investigations of Gulewitsch. The discovery of the base in beef muscle extract was first reported by Gulewitsch and Amiradiib? in 1900. Later Kutsche? isolated a substance from beef muscle extract, which he named ignotine, but Gulewitscl? showed that ignotine and carnosine were identical. In the same volume, he4 showed that hydrolysis o...

Medical opinion concerning euthanasia.