The study explored event-related perturbation in spectral power and in potentials during periodic fast and slow motor imagination of left and right index finger and right toe based on EEG. EEG signals were collected from 4 healthy volunteers during imagination of six tasks that involved three limbs (left and right index fingers and right toes ) and two speeds (fast and slow) and each task repea...

the problem of “imagination”, as raised by muslimphilosophers, has several epistemic consequences insubjects as diverse as ontology, prophecy,conceptualization and the functions of art. inilluminationist philosophy of suhrawardi, moreover, bearsthe topic of imagination a correlation to other subjects. ofthe foundations of suhrawardi's processing of the theoryof imagination, the most promin...

Complex human social cognition has evolved in concert with risks for psychiatric disorders. Recently, autism and psychotic-affective conditions (mainly schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression) have been posited as psychological 'opposites' with regard to social-cognitive phenotypes. Imagination, considered as 'forming new ideas, mental images, or concepts', represents a central facet of...

The field of Communication and Health in Brazil has been developing and getting stronger after each National Health Conference (NHC). In the final report of the XII NHC, in 2003, there was clear recognition that community radio is an instrument for the dissemination and treatment of issues related to the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS). This study seeks to analyze the relationships that a...

The eminent mathematician Felix Klein wrote, in his intimate history of nineteenth-century mathematics, that “mathematics is not merely a matter of understanding but quite essentially a matter of imagination” (cf. Klein [1979], p. 207). Klein was responding to the turbulent trajectory of imagination’s role inmathematics during the nineteenth century, which beganwith Gaspard Monge teaching new w...