Stateless Nations Reconceptualised: Theoretical Framework and Choosing Wales and the Basque Country

Author(s):  
Sophie Williams
Comunicar ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (31) ◽  
Author(s):  
Concepción Medrano-Samaniego

This paper presents the results obtained from a sample of adolescents from the Basque Country (Spain) regarding the relationship between their personal values and the values perceived in their favourite television programmes. The theoretical framework used for conceptualizing and assessing such values was the Schwartz model; and the instrument used for the study was an own scale developed by the authors (Val-TV 0.1), which was statistically validated using a multidimensional analysis. In accordance with our hypotheses, which are based on previous studies, we can affirm that, in general, the subjects tend to perceive the same values in television programmes that they themselves show.En este trabajo se exponen los resultados hallados en una muestra de adolescentes del País Vasco (España) al estudiar la relación existente entre sus valores personales y los valores percibidos en sus programas preferidos de televisión. El marco teórico para la comprensión y evaluación de los valores es el modelo de Schwartz y el instrumento utilizado una escala de elaboración propia (Val-TV 0.1) validada estadísticamente mediante el análisis multidimensional. De acuerdo a las hipótesis planteadas, basadas en estudios anteriores, se concluye que, en términos generales, los sujetos tienden a percibir en sus programas preferidos aquellos valores que ellos mismos manifiestan.


2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myrthe Faber

Abstract Gilead et al. state that abstraction supports mental travel, and that mental travel critically relies on abstraction. I propose an important addition to this theoretical framework, namely that mental travel might also support abstraction. Specifically, I argue that spontaneous mental travel (mind wandering), much like data augmentation in machine learning, provides variability in mental content and context necessary for abstraction.


2016 ◽  
Vol 224 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carsten M. Klingner ◽  
Stefan Brodoehl ◽  
Gerd F. Volk ◽  
Orlando Guntinas-Lichius ◽  
Otto W. Witte

Abstract. This paper reviews adaptive and maladaptive mechanisms of cortical plasticity in patients suffering from peripheral facial palsy. As the peripheral facial nerve is a pure motor nerve, a facial nerve lesion is causing an exclusive deefferentation without deafferentation. We focus on the question of how the investigation of pure deefferentation adds to our current understanding of brain plasticity which derives from studies on learning and studies on brain lesions. The importance of efference and afference as drivers for cortical plasticity is discussed in addition to the crossmodal influence of different competitive sensory inputs. We make the attempt to integrate the experimental findings of the effects of pure deefferentation within the theoretical framework of cortical responses and predictive coding. We show that the available experimental data can be explained within this theoretical framework which also clarifies the necessity for maladaptive plasticity. Finally, we propose rehabilitation approaches for directing cortical reorganization in the appropriate direction and highlight some challenging questions that are yet unexplored in the field.


2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas A. Oleen-Junk ◽  
Stephen M. Quintana ◽  
Julia Z. Benjamin

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