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This essay proposes reflections on the figural and diagrammatic extent of representation, adopting for the purpose a particular ‘object’, i.e. time and temporality. This ‘object’ cannot be detected by our senses, but we ‘feel’ it so convincingly that we imagine a space in which things and events are immersed in time, in its flowing. It drags on to the future according to a temporality that can be regulated by the rigour of the principle of causality, or the probable relationship between beginning and end, or it advances only to return inexorably and cyclically back to itself.

Neuroaesthetics, the science studying the biological underpinnings of aesthetic experience,
recently extended its area of investigation to literary art; this was the humus where neurocognitive
poetics blossomed. Divina Commedia represents one of the most important, famous and studied
poems worldwide. Poetry stimuli are characterized by elements (meter and rhyme) promoting
the processing fluency, a core aspect of neuroaesthetics theories. In addition, given the evidence

The aim of this essay is to analyze the construction of the conceptual categories of time and space in the social sciences. The methodological dispute of the late nineteenth century, the Methodenstreit, debated the merits of the so-called idiographic and nomothetic epistemologies. Later the Annales movement, in general, and Fernand Braudel in particular, departed from both the idiographic epistemology of traditional history expressed as the narration of events and the nomothetic epistemology of social sciences articulated in the search for universal laws valid across time and space.

This work tries to make evident how and why we must go beyond the epistemological disputes that have dominated the world social thought for the past two centuries. Demonstrating the relevance of time and space and how they affect the content of any analysis, Braudel and Wallerstein provide an epistemological alternative to the antinomy between idiographic and nomothetic disciplines. This alternative is constituted by multiple, socially constructed geo-historical categories.

Episodic autobiographical memory (EAM) is pivotal for the development and maintenance of personal identity. However, a theoretical debate still exists about where EAMs are stored in our brain and about hippocampal unique contribution to their recollection. Here we disentangled this issue performing an Activation Likelihood Estimation (ALE) meta-analysis on 79 neuroimaging experiments, classified according to the remoteness of EAMs, and meta-analytic connectivity modeling. A wide brain network, spanning from occipital to frontal lobe, was involved in recalling EAMs.

This paper proposes a computationally efficient attitude control strategy for nanospacecraft fast reorientation maneuvers. The paper considers a 3U CubeSat for visual Earth observation missions with deployable solar panels, equipped with three reaction wheels, three magnetorquers, and a miniature star imager, due to a 0.1° stringent targeting requirement of the payload. The star imager is very accurate, but operational only at very small angular rates. Hence it cannot be used for attitude measurement during fast slewing maneuvers.

Spatial Metaphors of the Conjunction «And» in the Star of Redemption · In this paper I will

The present study focuses on the value of visual narratives as expression of meaning and emotions via the emplotment of stories that, because they are told, seen and narrated, acquire a deep cultural and mnemonic importance across time.

From the 9th to the 7th century BC, Assyrian kings launched a programme of visualization of their military deeds and achievements on wall panels in the rooms of the royal residences in the main capital cities of the empire, Nimrud, Dur Sharrukin and Nineveh.

This paper explores theoretical and methodological strategies for rethinking some principles of sociological theory in the light of the fact that the basic sociological concepts—for instance, time, space, and relations among individuals and groups— could facilitate better observation and understanding of contemporary societies.