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Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...cognitive development in a positive light. Recent research has aimed to define this relationship more precisely. Some studies have focused on the languages themselves, including the bilingual’s competence in them: one expert, for example, concluded that there is a ‘threshold level’ at which the beneficial effects of bilingualism come into play. The relative status...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Applying to study for a PhD in psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Applying to study for a PhD in psychology

...cognitive, biological, forensic, coaching or occupational psychology (and many more options could be added to that list). How will you utilise your previous study of psychology in your PhD research on your proposed topic? Discussion Think about the modules and assessed tasks, especially research projects, that you completed in your previous degree(s), and the theoretical...
Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...cognitive science research, but because it is still difficult to talk about. My experience is that the majority of people take the traditional view so much for granted that the alternative is often dismissed before the conversation can begin. Recently my daughter's teacher responded in this manner in response to points she raised in an essay for her ‘theory of knowledge...
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...cognitive mapping, the interview addresses debates on the common(s) and its multitudes in their flight from wage labor, as well as the antinomies of informational capitalism, which frees up and mobilizes with one hand what it blocks entry to with the other. Fire and pay walls prevent access from what could be freely available to all, an idea that drove Aaron Swartz to...
Why are young men worldwide experiencing mental health crises?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are young men worldwide experiencing mental health crises?

...cognition following brief induced periods of stress. After years of study, O’Connor found something about suicidal minds that surprised him. It’s called social perfectionism. And it might help us understand why men kill themselves in such numbers. [A man runs on a treadmill] At 22, Drummond married his brown-eyed girlfriend Livvy. Eighteen months later he became a...
Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...cognitive behavioural therapy in a group context. Then there are also sort of psychodynamic approaches and training group and personal development group. So there's a very broad church, as it were, of groupwork methods, but I think they all relate to this sense of, we can achieve more together in a group than we can individually. We can learn more from one another...
Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...cognition, something you can observe, that in a way feels more simplistic and reductionistic than trying to engage this very complex, mysterious organ that we’re beginning to try to understand. Now, already in the case of the brain disorders that I’ve been talking to you about – depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, while we...
Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective

...Cognitive processes in improvisation’ in Cognitive processes in the perception of art, W. Ray Crozier and A.J. Chapman (eds), North-Holland (imprint of Elsevier), Amsterdam. Widdess, R. (1995) The ragas of early Indian music, Clarendon Press, Oxford...Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective: Acknowledgements - This course was written by Professor...