In a recent observation article in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance (JEP:HPP; Varlet & Richardson, 2015) the 100-m sprint final of the World Championship in ...Athletics in Berlin of 2009 (i.e., the current world record race) was analyzed. That study reported occurrence of spontaneous, unintentional interpersonal synchronization between Usain Bolt and Tyson Gay, the respective winner and runner-up of that race. In the present commentary article, however, we argue that the results and conclusion of that study cannot be warranted because of methodological shortcomings. We addressed the same research question and reassessed the same race using an alternative data analysis method. These results revealed that as yet there is no sufficient ground to conclude that in the 100-m world record race synchronization occurred between Bolt and Gay. Yet, our reanalysis suggested that even at this very elite level the individual movement frequencies did seem to vary to such an extent that synchronization would theoretically still be possible, thereby providing incentives for further examination of potential unintentional synchronization in coactive sports.
Public Significance Statement
While a previous study suggested that in the 100-m sprint world record race unintended synchronization occurred between winner Usain Bolt and runner-up Tyson Gay, the present study demonstrates that as yet there is no sufficient ground to conclude this. Still, reanalysis also unveiled that Bolt and Gay varied their step rates to an unexpectedly large degree, given which synchronization would theoretically still be possible. This further opens up the question when and why athletes in coactive sports would show such variability and potentially synchronization.
One last Who am I Laccourreye, O.; Werner, A.; McGill, I.
European annals of otorhinolaryngology, head and neck diseases,
June 2018, 2018-Jun, 2018-06-00, 20180601, Letnik:
135, Številka:
3
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In "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841), Poe invents the detective story in English, introducing his gentleman sleuth Auguste Dupin as he solves the locked-room mystery of two women found brutally ...murdered in a Paris apartment. In L'Amante Anglaise (1967), Duras revisits the detective form, fictionalizing the true 1949 crime of a woman murdering and dismembering her cousin in Viorne, France. These literary detective stories highlight the powerful but unspoken role of affective experience in driving what appears, on the surface, to be a forensic medical or psychological investigation. In both tales, peculiarity is an affective and cognitive force that, contrary to what the majority of affect literature argues, inherently moves toward resolution and closure. Using peculiarity as an analytical concept, we argue that the concealment / discovery binary must acknowledge its affective origins, breaking a barrier between narrative scholarship and medical practice.
The presence of semantic memory dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has been widely investigated. Several studies have showed a higher degree of impairment in naming persons and objects, compared ...to general semantic knowledge in early stages of AD. The aim of this study was to investigate if the Famous Faces Naming Test can help to differentiate patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) who will progress to AD and those who will not. A Famous Faces Naming Test was administered to 17 patients with MCI who did not convert to AD and eight patients with MCI who converted to AD 2 years later. MCI patients who converted to AD 2 years later performed significantly worse on Famous Faces Naming Test compared to MCI patients who did not convert over that time period. A neuropsychological task of semantic knowledge of famous people may be useful in the early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease.
Dido, queen of Carthage: Léonard Limosin Cole, Thomas B
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association,
2014-Jun-25, Letnik:
311, Številka:
24
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