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Neurones de la lecture (Les)
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 484

Neurones de la lecture (Les)

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-08-30
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  • Publisher: Odile Jacob

Les progrès des neurosciences et de la psychologie cognitive ont conduit à un décodage des mécanismes neuronaux de la lecture. L'ouvrage présente cette science de la lecture et les avancées expérimentales qui la soutiennent.

Cultural Conceptualizations in Translation and Language Applications
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 259

Cultural Conceptualizations in Translation and Language Applications

The book comprises a selection of 14 papers concerning the general theme of cultural conceptualizations in communication and translation, as well as in various applications of language.Ten papers in first part Translation and Culture cover the topics of a cognitive approach to conceptualizations of Source Language – versus Target Language – texts in translation, derived from general language, media texts, and literature.The second part Applied Cultural Models comprises four papers discussing cultural conceptualizations of language in the educational context, particularly of Foreign Language Teaching, in online communication and communication in deaf communities.

Resisting Backsliding
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 323

Resisting Backsliding

In the past two decades, democratically elected executives across the world have used their popularity to push for legislation that, over time, destroys systems of checks and balances, hinders free and fair elections, and undermines political rights and civil liberties. Using and abusing institutions and institutional reform, some executives have transformed their countries' democracies into competitive authoritarian regimes. Others, however, have failed to erode democracy. What explains these different outcomes? Resisting Backsliding answers this question. With a focus on the cases of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela and Alvaro Uribe in Colombia, the book shows that the strategies and goals of the opposition are key to understanding why some executives successfully erode democracy and others do not. By highlighting the role of the opposition, this book emphasizes the importance of agency for understanding democratic backsliding and shows that even weak oppositions can defeat strong potential autocrats.

Governing the EU in an Age of Division
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 175

Governing the EU in an Age of Division

Few international organizations embody the idea of historical progress as strongly as the European Union (EU). This book shows how Europe’s heterogeneity makes the EU unsuitable to be a vehicle of progress and political unity and makes the case for a more restrained, polycentric approach towards European integration.

Reading and Experience: A Philosophical Investigation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 438

Reading and Experience: A Philosophical Investigation

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The Untold Story of the Talking Book
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

The Untold Story of the Talking Book

Afterword: Speed Listening -- Notes -- Credits -- Acknowledgments -- Index

The Max Planck Handbooks in European Public Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 769

The Max Planck Handbooks in European Public Law

  • Categories: Law

This edited volume reports the antecedents, foundations, organization, basic principles, and challenges to fourteen European constitutions. They include countries with long-lasting and recently amended constitutions, decentralized or unitary, with different political systems and institutional settings.

Manual Skills, Handedness, and the Organization of Language in the Brain
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 163

Manual Skills, Handedness, and the Organization of Language in the Brain

Whereas the cerebral specialization for skilled manual actions (praxis) seems closely linked to dominance for language, with both functions left lateralized in the vast majority of humans, the neural correlates of hand preference are still less well understood. Indeed, as a combination of inherited and non-inherited genomic factors (i.e., direct parental and concealed environmental contributions), handedness – in contrast to language – is less likely to have strong genetic indices and clearly lateralized functional organization. What about eye dominance, unimanual and bimanual object manipulation, and gestures, or attentional systems and the related egocentric or allocentric coding of sp...

The Equilibrium of Parliamentary Law-making
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 212

The Equilibrium of Parliamentary Law-making

  • Categories: Law

This book is a response to the dangers posed to constitutional democracy by the continuous growth of executive power and the simultaneous decline of parliaments’ role in policy formation. These phenomena are often manifested in the manipulation and even the violation of the rules of parliamentary law-making, called irregularities. If left without consequences, these irregularities can ultimately lead to the elimination of the procedural constraints imposed on the ruling political forces to prevent their arbitrary exercise of power. This work investigates the constitutional significance of the irregularities of parliamentary law-making and explores the role that courts play in the remedy of...

Percept, Decision, Action
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 314

Percept, Decision, Action

Seemingly simple behaviours turn out, on reflection, to be discouragingly complex. For many years, cognitive operations such as sensation, perception, comparing percepts to stored models (short-term and long-term memory), decision-making and planning of actions were treated by most neuroscientists as separate areas of research. This was not because the neuroscience community believed these operations to act independently—it is intuitive that any common cognitive process seamlessly interweaves these operations—but because too little was known about the individual processes constituting the full behaviour, and experimental paradigms and data collection methods were not sufficiently well de...