I See Satan Fall Like Lightening, by Rene Girard

Reader Response ~ - - Rene Girard and the Dynamics of Imitation , Scapegoating

Richard Boyd's "Reading Student Resistance" and his earlier JAC article "Imitate Me; Don't Imitate Me" have convinced me that Rene Girard's theory of mimetic desire may have much to teach us about the dynamics of composition. Both articles offer an impressive analysis of imitation as a moment of coercion and "double bind" for students and teacher. In my view, Boyd's most significant insight con...

I see myself ? Learning by doing

own face, although children do not develop self-recognition before the age of about 18 months. Self-face recognition is clearly a high-level ability and might be an important component of self-awareness1. The question of how the brain responds to the sight of one’s own face has recently been tackled by Kircher and colleagues2. They used computerized morphing procedures to blend a photograph of ...

Do rats see like we see?

Like primates, the rat brain areas thought to be involved in visual object recognition are arranged in a hierarchy.

Do You See What I See?

Studying visual illusions is critical to understanding typical visual perception. We investigated whether rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) and capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) perceived the Delboeuf illusion in a similar manner as human adults (Homo sapiens). To test this, in Experiment 1, we presented monkeys and humans with a relative discrimination task that required subjects to choose the lar...

How I See the Yoruba See Themselves