Previous reports have demonstrated that many aspects of number knowledge remain unimpaired in semantic dementia, despite severe comprehension problems in other domains. It is argued that this advantage for numbers arises because the disease spares the parietal lobe magnitude system thought to be critical for number processing. Models of numerical cognition that favour a separation between verba...

Three studies used the moving word task to examine children's understanding of the symbolic nature of print. A card containing a printed word is presented with two pictures, one of which is named by the word. The child is told what the card says and then asked three times what the word is. For the second question, the card is spatially adjacent to the picture it does not name, and 4-year-olds t...

Early exposure to symbolic media, such as pictures, drawings, paintings, photos, and videos, is common in western countries. Modern picture books coexist with electronic storybooks other digital literature, expanding the environment which young children develop learn. Since advent of new technologies, recommendations for kids' use these gadgets have been covered numerous papers. Young adults ca...

the musical symbol is one way of expression among many other ways. it doesn`t directly correspond with meaning or reality. rather, it provides images that are representative of the original. however, symbols goes beyond this and provide deep significant symbolic meanings and visions. mystical poetry has a complex intellectual structure, particularly in arabic and persian literature. hence, musi...

â  â  avicenna’s role in arabic literature â  â  nasrollah shameli * â  hamid ahmadian ** â  â  abstract â  â  the master and doyen, avicenna, is one of the prominent savants of the fourth century a.h. besides medicine and philosophy, he was a master in sciences of his time, and was proficient in arabic literature. he has peerless anthologies in poetry and prose, in both arabic and persian li...

Mechanical ventilation has been the mainstay of treatment for respiratory failure. Modern-day mechanical ventilation has evolved from the days of the polio epidemic (1). As intensivists we have appreciated its benefits and risks through many years of experience and research. In striving to “do no harm,” we have adopted methods to ventilate patients that subject them to less lung injury as we tr...