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Altered Cognition and the Reading of Fiction

Prior to the reading of the story, each student was asked to fill out the psychological tests, and various measurements of their p...

The role of emotion and cognition in the development of consciousness.

This paper looks at the part played by emotion and cognition in the way we develop consciousness. Psychologists such as Ellis have...

Aspects of language and cognition

The major premise in the cognitive school is that "humans take in information from their environment through their senses and then...

Chamber of Blood Stories by Angela Carter

that many writers have used familiar themes and offered a new way of seeing the traditional elements of plot and character; howeve...

Le Guin/Left Hand of Darkness

eyes," but finds this awkward as he "self-consciously" sees a Gethenian "first as a man, then as a woman, forcing him into those c...

Octavia Butler's Dawn, Xinogenesis

In five pages this science fiction novel is examined in terms of the relationships between genetically altered aliens and the huma...

Comprehension, Reading, and Cognition

In seven pages the cognitive process is examined generally befor the focus shifts to how comprehension and reading pertains to cog...

Why Kids Should be Read to

at an early age (Lynch, van den Broek, Kremer, Kendeou, White, & Lorch, 2008). There are links between comprehending what is read...

The Relationship Between Cognition and Learning

application, which refers to gaining a deep enough understanding to apply the information in abstract settings; analysis when the ...

Lessons From Phineas Gage

lobe (Johnson, 2009). The frontal lobe is comprised of two parts, the anterior also called the prefrontal cortex controls higher o...

Cognitive Science - Emotion And Cognition

three dimensions of emotions which were presented in pairs of opposites: "pleasantness/unpleasantness, tension/release and excitem...

Fact and Fiction of Drug Legislation

America, and the finicky laws that change over time, it is hard to know fact from fiction. For example, was cocaine ever legal? Wa...

Explanation of Distributed Cognition

In seven pages the late 1980s theory known as distributed cognition is discussed in terms of its departure from other theories of ...

Literary Departure in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

In eight pages this paper examines the literary departure of James Joyce in this 1916 example of modernist fiction....

Love in a Small Town by Wang Anyi

sees the cultural upheavals which have befallen the mainland in its over forty years under socialism as a backdrop, not a major pl...

Cognition, Memory, and Reading Neurological and Biological Processes

In seven pages this paper discusses how the brain functions in this neurobiological consideration of comprehension, memory, and re...

Cyberpunk Lit: “Neuromancer”

movement, and the technical developments of the 1980s" (Neuromancer, William Gibson). The word "neuromancer" is a compound: "neuro...

Gore Vidal: “Creation”

Herodotus (Vidal). Herodotus was an actual historical figure, known as both the "father of history" and the "father of lies." Here...

Capacity, Income and the Multiplier Mechanism

at the maximum capacity it presently is able to achieve. If the company is profitable or has promise of being profitable, it will...

Massie Affair & Detective Fiction

PBS, tells the story of this despicable episode in the history of American jurisprudence. The saga of the Massie Affair begins in ...

Reading Assessments

This model is more commonly used because it considers the complexity of learning process and the variation in factors that can inf...

Learning Comprehension

in that they know what the purpose of learning how to read is. Children do not necessarily equate a pleasant purpose. There are m...

Annotated Bibliography: Summer Reading Programs Impact

This 7 page paper gives an example of an annotated bibliography on the impact of summer reading. This paper includes issues like s...

Reading Text: Electronic Versus Paper

This 5 page paper gives an explanation of reading electronic text versus reading hard copy text. This paper includes studies about...

Queer Reading Analysis of John Logan's Never the Sinner

A queer reading of this text by John Logan focuses on character presentation and motivations in seven pages....

Cognitive Processes and Reading Disabilities

phonological skills would be stronger predictors than exception words (Griffiths and Snowling, 2003). They also hypothesized that ...

Grabbing the Attention of the Reader

two distinct arguments of the death penalty issue and this would be an adequate introduction. But the development of a more varie...

John Fante's Book Ask the Dust

of whats going on in his own emotions, as well as a narrator of whats going on in the outside world, rather than someone who is pu...

H.G. Wells/The Time Machine

on the nature of the fourth dimension, i.e., time, as well as the astronomical features and evolutionary development that he obser...

Science Fiction Shakespeare

possible, but have not been invented yet. This will sound strange, because science itself is just getting started, but really, all...