Reading "Rembrandt": Beyond the Word-Image Opposition

Rembrandt

This is the first of a series of monographs, "The great painters and their works as seen by a doctor." The series is to be edited b}' Dr. de Lint, the writer of this monograph. The monographs will presumably all be in the English language as there is no mention of this monograph being a translation, although it is printed at The Hague and the style has that somewhat stilted character so familia...

Single Word Reading in Reading Disability depends on word frequency

A. Venkatadri, S. L. Rimrodt, A. Clements, K. R. Pugh, and L. E. Cutting F.M.Kirby Center, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, Division of Developmental Medicine, Children's Hospital of Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN, United States, Department of Cognitive Neurology, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, Brain Sciences Institute, Johns Hopkins Univ...

How Word Meaning Influences Word Reading

Understanding how we read is a fundamental question for psychology, with critical implications for education. Studies of word reading tend to focus on the mappings between the written and spoken forms of words. In this paper, we review evidence from developmental, neuroimaging, neuropsychological, and computational studies that show that knowledge of word meanings is inextricably involved in wo...

Family Planning as a Possible Measure to Alleviate Poverty in the Philippines – Beyond Sociocultural Norms and Pervasive Opposition

Revealing Rembrandt

The power and significance of artwork in shaping human cognition is self-evident. The starting point for our empirical investigations is the view that the task of neuroscience is to integrate itself with other forms of knowledge, rather than to seek to supplant them. In our recent work, we examined a particular aspect of the appreciation of artwork using present-day functional magnetic resonanc...