What is special about autocatalysis?

What is Special about Children’s Deontic Reasoning?

The assumption underlying the present investigation is that comprehension and reasoning from deontic premises, as well as comprehension and reasoning from factual premises, depend on mental models, and these models predict what conclusions individuals are likely to draw. Experiment 1 (48 children aged 9-11 years) confirmed the prediction that children’s comprehension of deontic assertions, like...

What Is Special about Spatial Data

What is special about musical emotion?

Is there something special about the experience of musical emotion? In previous work, Juslin and Västfjäll [8] claimed that music triggers multiple psychological mechanisms which then induce both basic and complex emotions. If we consider the full range of phenomena discussed by Juslin and Västfjäll, it seems clear that a wide range of everyday emotional responses can be triggered by music. For...

What is "special" about face perception?

There is growing evidence that face recognition is "special" but less certainty concerning the way in which it is special. The authors review and compare previous proposals and their own more recent hypothesis, that faces are recognized "holistically" (i.e., using relatively less part decomposition than other types of objects). This hypothesis, which can account for a variety of data from exper...

Editorial: What is special about the gene?

The gene may be yesterday’s concept as far as science is concerned. However, it is still alive in the popular imagination. It presents a rich challenge to humanities disciplines in generating ideas and analytic perceptions. Furthermore, as the gene and genomics escape the laboratory into everyday life and culture, they shape, and are shaped by, the world views of ordinary people. This in turn m...