This article analyses Turkish parliamentary discourses towards communities living outside of Turkey from 1988 to 2016. It focuses particularly on the usage bridge metaphor in discursive strategies these communities; concentrated mainly former Ottoman territories and parts Eurasia. The argues that parliamentarians used frame as part both nation they lived in, thereby constituting their liminal i...

Behind the facades of humanity’s technological advances and urban lifestyles, there is in fact no real wall that separates us from web life. Biology, physics, Western social theory, Indigenous scholarship all tell we are embedded natural world; to operate otherwise a dangerous misconception leads human-centered ecological crises currently face. And yet many scientific communities, including tho...

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of mental fatigue on the duration of actual and imagined goal-directed arm movements involving speed-accuracy trade-off. Ten participants performed actual and imagined point-to-point arm movements as accurately and as fast as possible, before and after a 90-min sustained cognitive task inducing mental fatigue, and before and after viewing a n...

The authors describe 3 theoretical accounts of age-related increases in falsely remembering that imagined actions were performed (A. K. Thomas & J. B. Bulevich, 2006). To investigate these accounts and further explore age-related changes in reality monitoring of action memories, the authors used a new paradigm in which actions were (a) imagined only, (b) actually performed, or (c) both imagined...

Imagined food consumption is a method of elaborately imagining oneself eating a specific food that, when repeated 30 times, has been shown to decrease subsequent intake of the same food. The technique relies on a memory-based habituation process when behavioral and motivational responses to a stimulus decrease after its repeated presentation. Thus, repeatedly imagining food consumption leads to...

Regions of the lateral posterior parietal cortex (PPC) tend to be more active during recognition of previously studied items compared to correct rejection of unstudied items. Previously, we demonstrated that this effect is sourcespecific. While items that were encoded through visual perception elicited robust successful retrieval activity in the lateral PPC during a subsequent source memory tes...