Rusty Gage: A plastic approach to neuroscience

Rusty Gage: A plastic approach to neuroscience

SOCial NEurOSCiENCE: ThE fOOTPriNTS Of PhiNEaS gagE

757 This paper is based on a keynote address presented at a conference on Neural Systems of Social Behavior held at the University of Texas, Austin, in May 2007. I thank Jennifer Beer for the invitation to present the keynote, the members of the Institute for Personality and Social Research for comments beforehand, Jeff Sherman for the opportunity to prepare the talk for publication, and John C...

Nature or Nurture – Is A Successful Neuroscientist Born or Created? Interview with Rusty Gage

In the continuing series of interviews with famous Neuroscientists, I had the pleasure of meeting with Fred (Rusty) Gage at the last SfN meeting in Washington, DC. I was accompanied by a former student of mine, Anne Fagan, who had also been a graduate student in Rusty’s lab when he was at UCSD. Again, my main question was: “How did you become a famous neuroscientist?” I gave Rusty the choice of...

non-corrective approach to pronunciation

the aim of this study has been to find answers for the following questions: 1. what is the effect of immediate correction on students pronunciation errors? 2. what would be the effect of teaching the more rgular patterns of english pronunciation? 3. is there any significant difference between the two methods of dealing with pronuciation errore, i. e., correction and the teaching of the regular ...

iranian english learners’ perception and personality: a dual approach to investigating influential factors on willingness to communicate

abstract previous studies on willingness to communicate (wtc) have shown the influence of many individual or situational factors on students’ tendency to engage in classroom communication, in which wtc has been viewed either at the trait-level or situational level. however, due to the complexity of the notion of willingness to communicate, the present study suggests that these two strands are ...