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- Brain (22060 bytes)
3: ...ure. Functions of the brain are responsible for [[cognition]], [[emotion]], [[memory]], [[motor learning]] an...
5: ...icals called [[neurotransmitter]]s across gaps known as [[synapse]]s. Small invertebrates such as [[i...
9: ...s ''circumesophageal lobes'' that are flanked by two large optical lobes on the left and right (Butle...
11: ...more surface area for a greater number of neurons while keeping the volume of the brain compact enoug...
14: .... Often in these cases, more damage is caused by swelling, or [[edema]], than by the impact itself. ... - Culture (23440 bytes)
1: ...'culture''''', from the [[Latin]] <i>colere</i>, with its root meaning "to cultivate", generally ref...
6: ...ivilization]]" and contrasts the combined concept with "[[nature]]". According to this thinking, one ...
8: ... music]] "is" more refined than music produced by working-class people such as [[punk rock]] or than ...
10: ...dview]], people with different customs from those who regard themselves as cultured do not usually co...
12: ...| capitalist]] systems of [[western culture | the West]]. - Music (16462 bytes)
1: ...our life and varies with the many cultures of the world.[[Image:Music_animation.gif|thumb|200px|Clip ...
9: *[[Wind instruments]]
20: ...' I intend not only actual performance but also how music is heard, understood, even learned." <sup>[...
25: ...rganization of different melodies; and [[rhythm]] which is the organization of the durational aspects...
31: The music industry is that which creates, performs, and promotes music. A grea... - Meditation (26064 bytes)
3: ...e exists also various forms of [[Christian]], [[Jewish]] and [[Muslim]] meditation.
5: ...s case is the receipt of spiritual insights and new understanding.
7: From the point of view of [[psychology]], meditation can induce — ...
10: [[Image:Girl-practicing-meditation-yoga-while-sitting-on-mat-clipart-9029.jpg|thumb|right|2...
12: ... sitting cross-legged, standing, lying down, and walking (sometimes along designated floor patterns)... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
2: ...ake.jpg|thumb|right|225px|[[William Blake]]'s ''Newton'' as a divine geometer (1795)]]
4: ...rary application in the unity of science movement which includes [[logical positivism]].
6: ...to [[politics| political]] theories of the age. However, prominent Enlightenment philosophers such as...
8: The 18th century also saw a continued rise of [[empiricism | empirical]] ph...
10: ...a long period). Furthermore, [[Romanticism]] followed the Enlightenment. - Savannah Elephant (2385 bytes)
15: ...simply as the ''African Elephant''. It is also known as the '''Bush Elephant''' or '''African Bush El...
17: ...000 lb) it is the largest land animal in the world.
19: ...rch has been carried out into elephants' [[animal cognition|cognitive]] or [[perception|perceptual]] abilitie...
31: ...dwell, C. E., & Klemperer, S. L. (2004). Seismic waves from elephant vocalizations: A possible commu... - African Grey Parrot (5256 bytes)
14: ...ts and fruits, supplemented by leafy matter. Both wild-caught and captive-bred African greys are kept...
18: ...oted for their [[cognition|cognitive]] abilities, which are believed to have [[evolution|evolved]] as...
20: ...cockatoo]]s) are highly intelligent in comparison with other birds.
22: ...rather than any frequency of sound to communicate with the TV.
24: ...ers. Pet owners often refer to their relationship with them as being "like having a five-year-old chi... - Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
3: ...]], and [[physical cosmology|cosmology]]. He was awarded the [[1921]] [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel ...
5: ... [[popular culture]], ''Einstein'' has become a byword for great [[intelligence (trait)|intelligence]...
7: ...losophy. To this day Einstein receives popular recognition unprecedented for a scientist.
14: ...ry school]] and, at the insistence of his mother, was given [[violin]] lessons.
16: ...ering space and time later than most children, he was able to apply a more developed intellect. Anoth... - Tobacco smoking (36030 bytes)
4: ... years in the [[United States]], [[Canada]] and [[western Europe]].
8: ...cco smoke is inhaled into the lungs and increases with quantity and speed of nicotine absorption.
10: ... of smoking as balanced by its immediate rewards, while others deny the risks altogether.
13: ...cco [[gourd]] was worn as a badge by [[Midwife|midwives]].
15: ... Europe, and from there spread to the rest of the world. - Telencephalon (1948 bytes)
1: ...ecies]]. It emerges from the [[prosencephalon]], which is the first of three [[vesicle]]s that form ...
3: ...temporal lobe]] (green), [[occipital lobe]] (yellow), and [[parietal lobe]] (orange).]]
4: ...ther regions of the [[brainstem]]. The neural networks of the telencephalon facilitate complex learn...
6: ... matter]] and is grooved instead of being smooth, which increases its [[surface area]].
8: ... is unique among humans and [[Cercopithecidae|Old World monkey]]s. - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
5: ...inor (Bach)|Mass in B Minor]] and the [[St. Matthew Passion]].
7: ...ecame important musicians and composers in their own right. (See [[Bach family]].)
11: ...were expected to be apprentices to their fathers, we can assume J. S. Bach began copying music and pl...
13: ... which point the elder brother demanded to know how Sebastian had come to learn them.
17: ...s equally at home talking with organ builders and with performers. - Franz Xaver von Baader (10383 bytes)
1: ...rch 27]], [[1765]] – [[May 23]], [[1841]]), was a [[Germany|German]] [[philosopher]] and [[theo...
3: ...ning engineer. He studied under [[Abraham Gottlob Werner]] at [[Freiberg, Saxony|Freiberg]], travelle...
5: ...ir friendship continued till about the year 1822, when Baader's denunciation of modern philosophy in ...
7: ...hurch]], to which he belonged, and in consequence was, during the last three years of his life, inter...
9: ... is invariably ''con-scientia'' — a knowing with, consciousness of, or participation in God. - Donkeys (8731 bytes)
15: ...d]] animal of the horse family, [[Equidae]]. The wild ancestors of the donkey are [[Africa]]n.
18: ...ve long [[ear]]s and a "broomtail" similar to a cow's tail.
21: ...more of a beating than he is expecting to get and will refuse to mate. Moreover, mules are more easil...
24: ...history, donkeys have been used in [[Europe]] and western [[Asia]] to carry loads, pull carts, and ca...
28: ...ey are now commonly kept as [[pet]]s in countries where their use as beasts of burden has disappeared... - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ...of [[common descent]]. [[Molecular systematics]], which uses [[genome|genomic DNA]] [[bioinformatics|...
5: ...d on their means of transportation (air, land, or water).
7: ...mals'') into Arabic. His original commentary is now lost, but its translation into Latin by [[Michael...
9: ...sner's work was a critical compilation of life known at the time.
11: ...e [[Marcello Malpighi]] (1628–1694), [[Jan Swammerdam]] (1637–1680), and [[Robert Hooke]]... - Cognitive neuroscience (2047 bytes)
1: ...een as part of a wider interdisciplinary study of cognition, [[cognitive science]].
3: ... can inform theories about brain functions and knowledge about neural mechanisms is useful in underst...
5: ... Cognitive neuroscience also makes contact with low-level data from [[electrophysiology|electrophysio...
11: *[[Patricia Churchland|Churchland, P.S.]] & Sejnowski, T.J. (1992). ''“The Computational Brain'...
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