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From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...et al., 1980). Thus quite different associations are being evoked in the vervet brain. But in this course, the vervet monkey example will mainly be used as an illustration of how different human language is from the communication system of any other primate. The computational task for the human brain in understanding a single sentence is vastly more complex than the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Advancing Black leadership

...motivated police malpractice but end up being accused of bullying or slandering the very police officers who are at fault. [MUSIC PLAYING] Collective affirmation describes those situations where the practice of gaslighting is shifted to a collective level through the power of a crowd, which is called into action to affirm the logic and sense of otherwise, senseless and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Wilberforce
History & The Arts

Wilberforce

...motives for writing it? Discussion Wilberforce is consciously trying to portray himself as both seriously concerned about religion and as an active public figure. His name and his position as ‘Member of Parliament for the County of York’ boldly appear on the title page. He is not sheltering behind the anonymity common among authors at this period, but deliberately...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Attention
Society, Politics & Law

Attention

...et al. (2002) used the Evett and Humphreys (1981) technique, but with modifications. As in the earlier study, they showed a potential prime (e.g. ‘lion’), followed by a hard-to-see masked target (e.g. ‘tiger’). However, there were two changes in this study. First, the priming word could be displayed either for a very short time, so that it was allegedly...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Meetings with a polite Opium Eater: Charles Knight on Thomas De Quincey
History & The Arts

Meetings with a polite Opium Eater: Charles Knight on Thomas De Quincey

...motives of human actions, unembarrassed as was his demeanour, pleasant and even mirthful his table-talk, was as helpless in every position of responsibility, as when he nightly paced "stony-hearted Oxford Street" looking for the lost one. He was constantly beset by idle fears and vain imaginings. His sensitiveness was so extreme, in combination with the almost...
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Article 10 mins
The 'what now Wednesday' after the Super Tuesday before
Society, Politics & Law

The 'what now Wednesday' after the Super Tuesday before

...motivated by their enthusiasm for Sanders. His surprise win in four states – Vermont, Colorado, Oklahoma and Minnesota – no doubt has to do with youth participation and enthusiasm. In all states except for Alabama, young voters chose Sanders over Hillary Clinton with comfortable margins – including the South, where he was expected to lose even among youth. In...
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Article 5 mins
Has Donald Trump's strike on Syria rewritten international law?
Society, Politics & Law

Has Donald Trump's strike on Syria rewritten international law?

...motivated by the use of chemical weapons or not. Even the White House has wavered on the reasoning for its missiles. Trump first argued that preventing Assad from using chemical weapons was a “vital national security interest of the United States” (seemingly claiming a form of self-defence) before the White House clarified that the use or proliferation of chemical...
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A polyglot life
Languages

A polyglot life

...motivation from each other’s stories and language journeys. All of the presentations are recorded and made freely available on the Polyglot Conference YouTube channel so that many more people around the world can easily enjoy and make use of the information presented. The Language Learning Community today is a formidable force on social media, representing a broad...
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Article 5 mins