The concept of action is playing an increasingly prominent role in attempts to explain how subjects can represent the world. The idea is that at least some of the role traditionally assigned to internal representations ...

The question of the extent to which perception is cognitively penetrated is an ambiguous one. Perception can be understood as a process occurring at the level of vehicles (V-perception) or at the level of content (C-perception) ...

This paper summarizes aspects of relevance theory that are useful for exploring impairment of pragmatic comprehension in children. It explores data from three children with pragmatic language diffi culties within this ...

AB Freshly dispersed rabbit ear artery cells were studied using patch-clamp techniques to measure membrane currents in whole cells and single-channel currents in membrane patches. Whole-cell calcium currents recorded at ...

In an imaging polarimetry survey of candidate post-AGB stars, scattering envelopes are detected around 20 objects. These envelopes represent the final mass-loss phases at the end of the AGB. In all cases, evidence for ...

A revised lithostratigraphy and glacial history of north Hertfordshire and south Bedfordshire is based upon detailed textural data in the clay to fine gravel fraction, carbonate content, small clast lithological data and ...

Cardiovascular diseases are among the leading causes of death worldwide and particularly in the developed World. The search for new therapeutic approaches for improving the functions of the damaged heart is therefore a ...

Background and Methods. The importance of residual renal function is well recognized in peritoneal dialysis but its role in haemodialysis (HD) has received much less attention. We studied 650 incident patients in our ...