Tracking the relation between gist and item memory over the course of long-term memory consolidation

Our experiences in the world support memories not only of specific episodes but also of the generalities (the ‘gist’) across related experiences. It remains unclear how these two types of memories evolve and influence one another over time. 173 human participants encoded spatial locations from a distribution and reported both item memory (specific locations) and gist memory (center for the locations) across one to two months. After one month, gist memory was preserved relative to item memory, despite a persistent positive correlation between them. Critically, item memories were biased towards the gist over time; however, with a spatial outlier item, the local center excluding the outlier became the source of bias, instead of the reported center overweighting the outlier. Our results suggest that the extraction of gist is sensitive to the regularities of items, and that the gist starts to guide item memories over longer durations as their relative strengths change.

Laboratories of Universality

Carlos Fonseca Suárez read Jorge Luis Borges’s short story “El Aleph” as a reflection upon the limits of technological universalism as well as a reconfiguration of modern cosmopolitanism. Carlos Fonseca Suárez then explores the figure of José Arcadio Buendía—founder of Macondo in Cien años de soledad (1967)—who in his obsession with scientific innovation takes Borges’s exploration of technological modernity and the impasses of modern progressivism even further, proposing instead a new dialectical model of universalism. Finally, Carlos Fonseca Suárez concludes by adding a final star to this constellation by exploring how the character of Luca Belladona in Ricardo Piglia’s 2010 novel Blanco nocturno allows for a rereading of this Humboldt’s plainsman scene in the contemporary socioeconomic context, where the relation between the global and the local, center and periphery, becomes intertwined in the elusive informational networks of global capital.

Features of the Organization of Economic Research in the 1920s (on the Example of Yekaterinburg / Sverdlovsk)

The potential of Yekaterinburg / Sverdlovsk made it possible to expect creation of a local center for the training of qualified economists in the 1920s and emergence of a special institution with specialists capable of analyzing regional economic problems at a high theoretical level. However, despite the obvious need for economists (practitioners and theorists) and for conducting economic research, this did not happen due to a number of ideological and political restrictions. Mistrust of old specialists, the adoption of Marxism political economy as an ideological dogma, the crisis of higher education, fear of possible party sedition in regional economic research centers led to a natural result - a lag in economic research, poor industrialization of the necessary personnel, and miscalculations in economic planning. Uralplan, UOLE, regional studies organizations engaged in regional economic research were destroyed, which slowed down the development of economic science in Sverdlovsk for several decades.

A Educação no Período Kubitschek: os Centros de Pesquisas do INEP

O presente estudo procura descrever as atividades e o ideário do Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Educacionais e do Centro Regional de Pesquisas Educacionais de São Paulo — órgãos do Instituto Nacional de Estudos Pedagógicos (INEP) -, durante o período 1956-1961. O objetivo é estabelecer algumas relações entre a atuação dos referidos órgãos e as principais características da administração Juscelino Kubitschek, particularmente no tocante à ideologia desenvolvimentista adotada no período. Abstract The real work tries to describe the activities and the ideas of the Brazilian Center of Educational Researchs (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Educacionais) and of the São Paulo's Local Center of Educationals Researchs (Centro Regional de Pesquisas Educacionais de São Paulo) - association groups from National Institute of Pedagogic Studies (Instituto Nacional de Estudos Pedagógicos - INEP) -, during the period 1956-1961. The aim of this article is to compare some works of these association with main characteristics of Juscelino Kubitschek administration, particulary with respect to the develop-ment Ideology wich has been gotten in that era. Résumé Cette étude décrit les activités et les idées du Centre National de Recherches à I'Education ( Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Educacionais) et du Centre Regional de Recherches à I'Education de São Paulo (Centro Regional de Pesquisas Educacionais de São Paulo) - organismes de l'Institut National d'Études Pédagogiques (Instituto Nacional de Estudos Pedagógicos — INEP), pendant là période 1956-1961. Son objectif est détablir quelques rapports ente V action de ses organismes et les principales caracteristiques de l'Administration Juscelino Kubitschek, notamment en ce qui concerne 1'idéologie du développement adoptée pendant cette période de I'Histoire Brésilienne. Resumen El presente estúdio se propone describir Ias actividades y el ideário del Centro Brasileho de Investigaciones Educacionales (Centro Brasileiro de Pes-quisas Educacionais) y del Centro Regional de Investigaciones Educacionales de São Paulo (Centro Regional de Pesquisas Educacionais de São Paulo) -órganos del Instituto Nacional de Estúdios Pedagógicos (Instituto Nacional de Estudos Pedagógicos — INEP), durante el período 1956-1961. El objetivo que se persigue es establecer algunas relaciones entre là actuación de los referidos órganos y Ias principales caracteerísticas de là administracion Juscelino Ku-bitschek, particularmente en Io que respecto a là ideologia desarrollista adoptado en ese período.

User Information Needs in the Public Libraries in India

The researcher has chosen the topic for the purpose of the study in consultation with research supervisor. The public library is the local center of information, making all kinds of knowledge and information readily available to its users. The services of the public library are provided on the basis of equality of access to all, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, nationality, language, or social status. Public library is a non-profit organization maintained for public use. The thesis comprises of information needs and information seeking behavior of the user of south Tamilnadu, from various angles, the information dissemination services existing in south Tamilnadu and the role played by the district central library in this regard. In public libraries we have the users with different age groups of people right from children to old persons.