1 Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, Université Paul Sabatier, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France 2 Faculté de Médecine de Purpan, CNRS, UMR 5549, Toulouse, France 3 Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Science, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA 4 Institute of Medical Psychology, Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany *Correspondence: [email protected]...

Music, unlike ordinary language, can ‘make sense’ or have ‘meaning’ even when it does not refer to anything in particular (other than music). Although we often think of music as a kind of language, on the whole we do not regard it as a ‘translatable’ language, the inherent meaning of which could be sufficiently expressed in a different form. If you strip away the ornaments and metaphors of a po...

Jean-Pierre Changeux is France's most famous neuroscientist. Though less well known in the United States, he has directed a famous laboratory at the Pasteur Institute for more than thirty years, taught as a professor at the Collège de France, and written a number of works exploring "the neurobiology of meaning." Aside from his own books, Changeux has published two wide-ranging dialogues about m...

Narratives are ever more frequent in qualitative studies seeking to interpret experiences and the different viewpoints of individuals in a given context. Starting from this concept, the tradition that addresses narrative is reexamined, including the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur, the historical perspective of Walter Benjamin and the field of medical anthropology grounded in phenomenology. In Ricoe...

An appreciation of object-centred spatial relations involves representing a 'within-object' spatial relation across changes in the object orientation. This representational ability is important in adult object recognition [Biederman, I. (1987). Recognition-by-components: A theory of human image understanding. Psychological Review, 94, 115-147; Marr, D., & Nishihara, H. K. (1978). Representation...

By Mrs. Sylvia Anthony. Kegan Paul. lis. 6d. The writer of this book is to be congratulated ?n having undertaken an original piece of ^search, one which needed a most careful Planning of approach to the groups of children observed in order to get as spontaneous a resPonse as possible to the tests used, i.e. story completion test and an intelligence test with modifications. In addition, "home re...

t amuses me enormously to paint the night right on the spot, " wrote Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo. " Normally, one draws and paints the painting during the daytime after the sketch. But I like to paint the thing immediately. It is true that in the darkness I can take a blue for a green, a blue lilac for a pink lilac, since it is hard to distinguish the quality of the tone. But it is the...