Domulti-level selection explanations of the evolutionof social traits deepen the understanding provided by single-level explanations? Central tomultilevel explanations is a mathematical theorem, the multi-level Price decomposition. I build a framework through which to understand the explanatory role of such non-empirical decompositions in scienti c practice. Applying this general framework to t...

Most previous research on the effect of alcohol on speech has focused on read speech. On that basis, prosodic changes have been demonstrated. Some findings, however, were not unanimous, e.g. those on speaking fundamental frequency (F0) and F0 variability. Another shortcoming of most previous studies is that they use a very small number of subjects. [3]. The present study is based on an experime...

According to alcohol myopia theory, acute alcohol consumption leads people to disproportionally focus on the salient rather than the peripheral aspects of a situation. We summarize various studies exploring how myopic processes resulting from acute alcohol intake affect goal commitment. After consuming alcohol student participants felt strongly committed to an important personal goal even thoug...

BACKGROUND The objective of the study was to expand the investigation of the match/mismatch mnemonic impairment in the semantic domain in sober alcoholics. METHODS Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded from 28 healthy adults and 36 sober alcoholics in a category (either animals or fruits/vegetables) match/nonmatch S1-S2 paradigm. RESULTS There was a significant interaction of ERP am...

Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals (BAS), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Schellingstr. 3, 80799 München, Germany schiel|[email protected] Abstract Speech uttered under the influence of alcohol is known to deviate from the speech of the same person when sober. This is an important feature in forensic investigations and could also be used to detect intoxication in the auto...

It is often claimed that the autonomy of heroin addicts is compromised when they are choosing between taking their drug of addiction and abstaining. This is the basis of claims that they are incompetent to give consent to be prescribed heroin. We reject these claims on a number of empirical and theoretical grounds. First we argue that addicts are likely to be sober, and thus capable of rational...