Pain, suffering and positive emotions in patients in vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (VS/UWS) and minimally conscious states (MCS) pose clinical and ethical challenges. Clinically, we evaluate behavioural responses after painful stimulation and also emotionally-contingent behaviours (e.g., smiling). Using stimuli with emotional valence, neuroimaging and electrophysiology tech...

We study two enumeration problems for up-down alternating trees, i.e., rooted labelled trees T , where the labels v1, v2, v3, . . . on every path starting at the root of T satisfy v1 < v2 > v3 < v4 > · · · . First we consider various tree families of interest in combinatorics (such as unordered, ordered, d-ary and Motzkin trees) and study the number Tn of different up-down alternating labelled ...

This chapter provides background for understanding and applying special regressor methods. This chapter is intended for inclusion in the "Handbook of Applied Nonparametric and Semiparametric Econometrics and Statistics," Co-edited by Aman Ullah, Jeffrey Racine, and Liangjun Su, to be published by Oxford University Press

Context processing and context maintenance in healthy aging and early-stage dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type Todd S. Braver, Department of Psychology, Washington University Ajay B. Satpute Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles Beth A. Keys Mayo Institute and Clinic, Rochester Minnesota Caroline A. Racine Department of Psychology, Washington University Deanna M. Barch D...

1. The first indication of the phenomenon.-When we consider a fluid mass in equilibrium, for example, some water in a glass, all the parts of the mass appear completely motionless to us. If we put into it an object of greater density it falls and, if it is spherical, it falls exactly vertically. The fall, it is true, is the slower the smaller the object; but, so long as it is visible, it falls ...

The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. The four books under review address several of the most compelling issues that have arisen following the democratic transitions of the 1980s and 1990s in Latin American counties with indigenous populations. The main concerns shared by the authors, all anthropologists, are indig...