Inaugural Debate Section - Debate Editor's Note

Inaugural Debate Section - Debate Editor's Note

Debate Debate

Geocomputation is an emerging field of research that advocates the use of computationally intensive techniques such as neural networks, heuristic search, and cellular automata for spatial data analysis. Since increasing amounts of health-related data are collected within a geographical frame of reference, geocomputational methods show increasing potential for health data analysis. This paper pr...

Editors note

EDITOR’S NOTE Geopersia is published biannually by the College of Science, University of Tehran, Iran. The College of Science published “Journal of Science”, which covered all fields of basic science, from 1968 to 2010. It was then decided that the College’s journals should be more specialized, and hence publication of Geopersia was launched. Geopersia aims to publish peer-reviewed original...

Great Debate: a new section in the EJCTS.

Despite the enormous development of medicine in general during the last several decades, each speciality is still struggling with patients for whom no evidence-based, guideline-supported and generally accepted treatment strategy exists. Our field of cardiothoracic surgery is no exception. Even though new surgical strategies for complex cardio-thoracic diseases are published in the form of origi...

THEORETICAL NOTE Modularity in Cognition: Framing the Debate

Modularity has been the subject of intense debate in the cognitive sciences for more than 2 decades. In some cases, misunderstandings have impeded conceptual progress. Here the authors identify arguments about modularity that either have been abandoned or were never held by proponents of modular views of the mind. The authors review arguments that purport to undermine modularity, with particula...