Socially anxious individuals are interfered by distractors. Recent work has suggested that low working memory capacity and inappropriate temporary goal induce attention to distractors. We investigated the effects of working memory capacity and temporary goal on attention to distractors in social anxiety. Participants viewed a rapid serial visual presentation, in which participants reported
Beyond the witch trials provides an important collection of essays on the nature of witchcraft and magic in European society during the Enlightenment. The book is innovative not only because it pushes forward the study of witchcraft into the eighteenth century, but because it provides the reader with a challenging variety of different approaches and sources of information. The essays, which cov…
This last title in the series covers the most important findings of the five yearsEU sponsored ANTICORRP project dealing with corruption and organized crime.How prone to corruption are EU funds? Has EU managed to improve governancein the countries that it assists? Using the new index of public integrity and avariety of other tools created in the project this issue looks at how EU funds andnorms…
Historically, in most organisms the nervous, immune, and the endocrine systems have been studied as independent components. However, during the last decades, growing evidence supports the notion that these are three parts of a unique system, the neuro-immune-endocrine system (Besedosky and Rey, 2007)
Energy has been a crucial element for human beings and sustainable development. The issues of global warming and non-green energy have yet to be resolved. This book is a collection of twelve articles that provide strong evidence for the success of artificial intelligence deployment in energy research, particularly research devoted to non-intrusive load monitoring, network, and grid, as well as …
Myotonic dystrophies (DMs) are pleotropic multisystemic diseases. These dominantly transmitted repeat disorders affect multiple organs of the human body at all ages—from the newborns to the elderly. DMs are highly inconsistent in terms of age at onset, severity of symptoms, and clinical patterns. Even within families, the onset and pattern of organ involvement remains enigmatic. Anticipat…
Kebanyakan orang dewasa mencoba untuk belajar bahasa kedua atau bahkan ketiga di beberapa titik dalam hidup mereka. Karena paparan bahasa adalah salah satu rejimen pelatihan kognitif paling intens yang dapat ditemui, tidak mengherankan bahwa penelitian sebelumnya menunjukkan bahwa multibahasa dapat menyebabkan perubahan mendalam dalam otak atau 'neuroplastisitas'. Yang masih belum jelas ada…
The emergence of neuroimaging and neurophysiological techniques opened new opportunities to complement bedside assessment by improving diagnosis and prognosis of patients with DOC. This Research Topic, which includes 15 articles with 100 contributors, aims to give an overview on how neuroimaging research can improve diagnosis,
By using the term ‘ethics’ I refer to the philosophical reflection that subjects human behaviour to normative and evaluative assessments94 and elaborates criteria for the evaluation of moral behaviour.95 In other words, I shall consider ethics to be a discipline that conducts a methodical reflection of morality,96 aiming at the development and justification of criteria to be adopted in…
Arnold Geulincx (1624-1669) is a key figure in the history of ideas, whose concepts have been seen as precursors to those developed by Spinoza, Malebranche, Leibniz and Kant. His Ethics presents a treatment of virtue from the standpoint of occasionalist metaphysics. The great Irish writer Samuel Beckett stated that Geulincx, with his emphasis on the powerlessness and ignorance of the human cond…