Sounds of hammering or clapping can evoke simulation of the arm movements that have been previously associated with those sounds. This audio-motor transformation also occurs at the sequential level and plays a role in speech and music processing. The present study aimed to demonstrate how the activation pattern of the sensorimotor network was modulated by the sequential nature of the auditory i...

This scoping review examines the benefits of Quranic engagement, encompassing recitation, listening, and memorisation. From a pool 1,739 articles, 21 relevant studies were analysed. Recitation Quran provides solace inner peace while listening to it reduces stress promotes overall well-being. Memorisation enhances cognitive abilities fosters deeper understanding Islamic principles. engagement al...

I argue that entertaining a proposition is not an action. Such events do not have intentional explanations and cannot be evaluated as rational or not. In these respects they contrast with assertions and compare well with perceptual events. One can control what one thinks by doing something, most familiarly by reciting a sentence. But even then the event of entertaining the proposition is not an...

When Brad Pitt tells Eric Bana in the 2004 film Troy that “there are no pacts between lions and men,” he is not reciting a clever line from the pen of a Hollywood screenwriter. He is speaking Achilles’ words in English as Homer wrote them in Greek more than 2,000 years ago in the Iliad. The tale of the Trojan War has captivated generations of audiences while evolving from its origins as an oral...

MASTER (Multi-Agent System for Text Emotion Representation) is an artificial society in which each member has a digital emotional state. Member agents attempt to influence each other’s emotions by reciting “poems” to each other which express their own emotional state. As agents do this, larger texts are developed in the society through social learning. The resulting texts are not meaningful in ...