Inner Speech and ‘Pure’ Thought – Do we Think in Language?

What You Do and How We Think

Traditional cultural properties were the subject of a National Register Bulletin, Bulletin 38, that was issued by the National Park Service in 1990. In the three years since it was issued, both the Bulletin and its subject matter have been the focal points of considerable discussion and debate in the preservation community. This special issue of CRM presents several perspectives on the debate. ...

Applying Mitigation Devices in Request Speech Act: Do Gender and Language Proficiency Have any Effect?

This study aims to examine how Iranian EFL learners perceive and apply mitigation devices in request speech act in 4 asymmetrical situations. Role-play interactions and questionnaires were used to elicit the required data from Iranian informants (male vs. female). The results obtained from the analysis of data revealed that in identical situations, male requestors were comparably more certain t...

We do, therefore we think: time, motility, and consciousness.

This article is a philosopher's expanded review of two recent books on neurophysiology: Rodolfo Llinás's I of the Vortex and György Buszáki's Rhythms of the Brain. Researchers such as these are converging on a view of consciousness as originating in motility and as inherently temporal due to the brainwave oscillations that underlay it. Most current discussions of consciousness include implicit ...

Do we need zinc to think?

Chelatable Zn(2+), which is found in the synaptic vesicles of certain glutamatergic neurons in several regions of the forebrain, is released during neuronal activity. Zn(2+) exhibits numerous effects on ligand-gated and voltage-dependent ion channels, and released Zn(2+) is therefore likely able to modulate synaptic transmission. The physiologically relevant actions of Zn(2+), however, have rem...

[Who do they think we are?].