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Synaesthesia: The prevalence of atypical cross-modal experiences
Sensory and cognitive mechanisms allow stimuli to be perceived with properties relating to sight, sound, touch, etc, and ensure, for example, that visual properties are perceived as visual experiences, rather than sounds, tastes, smells, etc. Theories of normal development can be informed by cases where this modularity breaks down, in a condition known as synaesthesia. Conventional wisdom has held that this occurs extremely rarely (0.05% of births) and affects women more than men. Here we present the first test of synaesthesia prevalence with sampling that does not rely on self-referral, and which uses objective tests to establish genuineness. We show that (a) the prevalence of synaesthesia is 88 times higher than previously assumed, (b) the most common variant is coloured days, (c) the most studied variant (grapheme-colour synaesthesia)-previously believed most common-is prevalent at 1%, and (d) there is no strong asymmetry in the distribution of synaesthesia across the sexes. Hence, we suggest that female biases reported earlier likely arose from (or were exaggerated by) sex differences in self-disclosure
A history of post-communist remembrance: from memory politics to the emergence of a field of anticommunism
This article invites the view that the Europeanization of an antitotalitarian âcollective memoryâ of communism reveals the emergence of a field of anticommunism. This transnational field is inextricably tied to the proliferation of state-sponsored and anticommunist memory institutes across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), but cannot be treated as epiphenomenal to their propagation. The diffusion of bodies tasked with establishing the âtrueâ history of communism reflects, first and foremost, a shift in the regionâs approach to its past, one driven by the rightâs frustration over an allegedly pervasive influence of former communist cliques. Memory institutes spread as the CEE right progressively perceives their emphasis on research and public education as a safer alternative to botched lustration processes. However, the field of anticommunism extends beyond diffusion by seeking to leverage the European Union institutional apparatus to generate previously unavailable forms of symbolic capital for anticommunist narratives. This results in an entirely different challenge, which requires reconciling of disparate ideological and national interests. In this article, I illustrate some of these nationally diverse, but internationally converging, trajectories of communist extrication from the vantage point of its main exponents: the anticommunist memory entrepreneurs, who are invariably found at the helm of memory institutes. Inhabiting the space around the political, historiographic, and Eurocratic fields, anticommunist entrepreneurs weave a complex web of alliances that ultimately help produce an autonomous field of anticommunism
Les médecins collaborateurs de l'Encyclopédie
Laignel-Lavastine Maxime. Les médecins collaborateurs de l'Encyclopédie. In: Revue d'histoire des sciences et de leurs applications, tome 4, n°3-4, 1951. pp. 353-358
La Roumanie
Laignel-Lavastine Alexandra. La Roumanie. In: Bulletin de l'Institut d'Histoire du Temps Présent, n°54, décembre 1993. pp. 42-54
J. Filliozat, La doctrine classique de la médecine indienne. Ses origines et ses parallÚles grecs
Laignel-Lavastine Maxime. J. Filliozat, La doctrine classique de la médecine indienne. Ses origines et ses parallÚles grecs. In: Revue d'histoire des sciences et de leurs applications, tome 5, n°2, 1952. pp. 190-192
Histoire générale de Ia médecine : Pr. Laignel-Lavastine (dir.), Histoire générale de la médecine, de l'art dentaire et de l'art vétérinaire
Laignel-Lavastine Maxime. Histoire générale de Ia médecine : Pr. Laignel-Lavastine (dir.), Histoire générale de la médecine, de l'art dentaire et de l'art vétérinaire. In: Revue d'histoire de la pharmacie, 38ᔠannée, n°126, 1950. pp. 18-19
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