In the opening section of their paper entitled ‘Odour-evoked autobiographical memories: psychological investigation of Proustian phenomena’ (Chu and Downes, 2000a) the authors refer to ‘a literary anecdote from Proust’ as an example of ‘folk wisdom concerning the power of odours to vividly remind one of particular past experiences’. Providing a one-paragraph excerpt from Proust’s three-page acc...

EPIDEMIOLOGY Cervical artery dissection accounts for up to 20% of strokes in patients under 30 years of age (Bogousslavsky et al. 1987). The incidence of carotid dissection is about 2–3 per 100 000 per year (Schievink et al. 1993; Giroud et al. 1995); the incidence of cervical dissection must be higher because these fi gures do not take into account vertebral dissection (about 25% of all dissec...

There is recent evidence that we directly map observed actions of other agents onto our own motor repertoire, referred to as direct matching (Iacoboni et al., 1999). This was shown when we are actively engaged in joint action with others' (Sebanz et al. 2003) and also when observing irrelevant movements while executing congruent or incongruent movements (Brass et al., 2000). However, an open qu...