1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910137240203321

Autore

Marcelo L. Berthier

Titolo

Dissecting the function of networks underpinning language repetition [[electronic resource] /] / topic editors Marcelo L. Berthier and Matthew A. Lambon Ralph

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frontiers Media SA, 2014

France : , : Frontiers Media SA, , 2014

ISBN

9782889193646 (ebook)

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (134 pages) : illustrations, charts

Collana

Frontiers Research Topics

Disciplina

612.8/2336

Soggetti

Philology & Linguistics

Languages & Literatures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

In the 19th century, ground-breaking observations on aphasia by Broca and Wernicke suggested that language function depends on the activity of the cerebral cortex. At the same time, Wernicke and Lichtheim also elaborated the first large-scale network model of language which incorporated long-range and short-range (transcortical connections) white matter pathways in language processing. The arcuate fasciculus (dorsal stream) was traditionally viewed as the major language pathway for repetition, but scientists also envisioned that white matter tracts travelling through the insular cortex (ventral stream) and transcortical connections may take part in language processing. Modern cognitive neuroscience has provided tools, including neuroimaging, which allow the in vivo examination of short- and long-distance white matter pathways binding cortical areas essential for verbal repetition. However, this state of the art on the neural correlates of language repetition has revealed contradictory findings, with some researchers defending the role of the dorsal and ventral streams, whereas others argue that only cortical hubs (Sylvian parieto-temporal cortex [Spt]) are crucially relevant. An integrative approach would conceive that the interaction between these structures is essential for verbal repetition.



For instance, different sectors of the cerebral cortex (e.g., Spt, inferior frontal gyrus/anterior insula) act as hubs dedicated to short-term storage of verbal information or articulatory planning and these areas in turn interact through forward and backward white matter projections. Importantly, white matter pathways should not be considered mere cable-like connections as changes in their microstructural properties correlate with focal cortical activity during language processing tasks. Despite considerable progress, many outstanding questions await response. The articles in this Research Topic tackle many different and critical new questions, including: (1) how white matter pathways instantiate dialogues between different cortical language areas; (2) what are the specific roles of different white matter pathways in language functions in normal and pathological conditions; (3) what are the language consequences of discrete damage to branches of the dorsal and ventral streams; 4) what are the consequences (e.g., release from inhibition) of damage to the left white matter pathways in contralateral ones and viceversa; (5) how these pathways are reorganised after brain injury; (5) can the involvement/sparing of white matter pathways be used in outcome prediction and treatment response; and (5) can the microstructure of white matter pathways be remodelled with intensive rehabilitation training or biological approaches.This Research Topic includes original studies, and opinion and review articles which describe new data as well as provocative and insightful interpretations of the recent literature on the role of white matter pathways in verbal repetition in normal and pathological conditions. A brief highlight summary of each is provided below.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797717003321

Autore

Pinto Pe Ramos

Titolo

Lisbon rising : Urban social movements in the Portuguese Revolution, 1974–75

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified] : , : Oxford University Press USA, , 2015

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2020

©2015

ISBN

1-5261-0306-0

1-5261-0305-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

320.946909045

Soggetti

HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal

Social movements

Democratization

POLITICAL SCIENCE - Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism

Democratization - Portugal - History - 20th century

Social movements - Portugal - Lisbon - History - 20th century

History

Portugal Lisbon

Portugal

Portugal History Revolution, 1974

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover ; Lisbon rising; Contents; List of Figures and tables ; Preface ; Abbreviations ; 1 Introduction: the Carnation Revolution revisited; 2 The New State and the transformation of urban citizenship, 1926-74; 3 From rights to action: April to December 1974; 4 Building a movement: September 1974 to June 1975; 5 The street and the ballot box: June to November 1975; 6 Urban social movements and the making of Portuguese  democracy; Select bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Lisbon rising explores the role of a widespread urban social movement



in the revolutionary process that accompanied Portugal's transition from authoritarianism to democracy. It is the first in-depth study of the widest urban movement of the European post-war period, an event that shook the balance of Cold War politics by threatening the possibility of revolution in Western Europe. Using hitherto unknown sources produced by movement organisations themselves, it challenges long-established views of civil society in Southern Europe as weak, arguing that popular movements had an important and auto

3.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00110940

Autore

SHEN Jiang

Titolo

Mi yu da quan / Shen Jiang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Changsha, : Hunan Renmin Chubanshe, 1981

Descrizione fisica

165 p. ; 21 cm

Classificazione

CIN XIV

Soggetti

INDOVINELLI CINESI

Lingua di pubblicazione

Cinese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910366624403321

Autore

Chandra Ramesh

Titolo

Allyn Abbott Young / / by Ramesh Chandra

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

9783030319816

3030319814

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 348 pages)

Collana

Great Thinkers in Economics, , 2662-6284

Disciplina

330

330.092

Soggetti

Economics - History

Econometrics

Economic history

Economic development

History of Economic Thought and Methodology

Quantitative Economics

Economic History

Economic Growth

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Intellectual Influences on Allyn Young -- 3. Nature, Scope and Method of Economics -- 4. Allyn Young's Contribution to Growth Theory -- 5. Allyn Young's Contribution to Economic Theory -- 6. Allyn Young on Applied Economics -- 7. Allyn Young on Money, Banking and Business Cycles -- 8. Allyn Young's Role as an Author, Teach and Mentor -- 9. Young's Estimate of his Contemporaries and Earlier Economists -- 10. Concluding Remarks.

Sommario/riassunto

Allyn Young (1876-1929) was a deep thinker and achieved fame during his lifetime. His fame owes more to his style and influence as a teacher than his published work. His greatest fame as an author rests on a single economic paper on increasing returns and economic progress but he contributed much more as a mentor to his graduate students such as Frank Knight, Edward Chamberlin, and Lauchlin Currie at



Harvard and to the undergraduate Nicholas Kaldor at the London School of Economics. He shot into international fame for his role as a member of the American delegation led by President Woodrow Wilson to negotiate peace at Paris after WWI. However, recent interest in Young is more due to his thought than to his contribution to the economics profession or public service. At the time of his death, he was working on two treatises, one on Money and the other on Economics. The one on Money was at a fairly advanced stage but no trace of either was found in his family's hasty departure from London after his untimely death. There is a general dearth of published material about Young, his thought and his life. His economic thought, apart from his views on growth theory and monetary economics, is relatively unknown. This volume offers a thematic approach to his contributions and biography.