Reconceptualizing foregrounding

Reconceptualizing schizophrenia.

The recent emphasis for research on psychiatric disorders focuses on supposed underlying processes and their biological elements. Although such a direction may be fruitful, it would be a mistake to ignore more integrated approaches for understanding the mysteries of schizophrenia or other psychiatric disorders. The complexity of the biopsychosocial paradigm should not lead to ignoring its poten...

Foregrounding the Cyberinfrastructure Center as Cyberinfrastructure Steward

A recent uptick in studies of cyberinfrastructure-enabled research projects has advanced our limited understanding of the use, development and management of cyberinfrastructure (CI) resources. Conspicuously absent from most of these studies, though, is any consideration of the key roles played by supercomputer centers, or what we term „CI centers‟, in CI-enabled research networks. This position...

Reconceptualizing Procedural Knowledge

Reconceptualizing second-person interaction

Over the last couple of decades, most neuroscientific research on social cognition has been dominated by a third-person paradigm in which participating subjects are not actively engaging with other agents but merely observe them. Recently this paradigm has been challenged by researchers who promote a second-person approach to social cognition, and emphasize the importance of dynamic, real-time ...

Reconceptualizing Adolescent Sexual Behavior

conceptualized in a negative and pro blematic context,” with the intent of preventing diseases and unplanned pre gn a n c i e s .5 For these and other re a s o n s , adolescent sexuality is typically conceptualized and studied as a dichotomy: Adolescents have had sex or they have not. H o w e v e r, the dichotomous sex–no sex view does not take into account the psychological and social context ...