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Yes / Objectives To examine the impact of memory accessibility on episodic future thinking. Design Single-case study of neurological patient HCM and an age-matched comparison group of neurologically Healthy Controls. Methods We administered a full battery of tests assessing general intelligence, memory, and executive functioning. To assess autobiographical memory, the Autobiographical Memory Interview (Kopelman, Wilson, & Baddeley, 1990. The Autobiographical Memory Interview. Bury St. Edmunds, UK: Thames Valley Test Company) was administered. The Past Episodic and Future Episodic sections of Dalla Barba's Confabulation Battery (Dalla Barba, 1993, Cogn. Neuropsychol., 1, 1) and a specifically tailored Mental Time Travel Questionnaire were administered to assess future thinking in HCM and age-matched controls. Results HCM presented with a deficit in forming new memories (anterograde amnesia) and recalling events from before the onset of neurological impairment (retrograde amnesia). HCM's autobiographical memory impairments are characterized by a paucity of memories from Recent Life. In comparison with controls, two features of his future thoughts are apparent: Reduced episodic future thinking and outdated content of his episodic future thoughts. Conclusions This article suggests neuropsychologists should look beyond popular conceptualizations of the past–future relation in amnesia via focussing on reduced future thinking. Investigating both the quantity and quality of future thoughts produced by amnesic patients may lead to developments in understanding the complex nature of future thinking disorders resulting from memory impairments. / Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of Leeds

There is nothing impossible in the world. Humans use their imagination to make their dreams come true or to achieve their desires. In architecture, a project should be completed by team effort and technology. Architects and engineers transform their ideas and imagination into an real object: space. Like a film, reflecting the director's thought and expression. How can space be defined ? A wall, a column.... every element in architecture can define a space, even though it might be only a door. A wall can be a separation as defining edges of a space, but a wall also is a connection as indicating other spaces for human to enter. A column is not just a part of the structure in architecture; it may guide people approaching a space or imply that there is another different space beyond?.... / Master of Architecture

This thesis investigates the relationship between architecture, Romanticism, American Transcendentalism, myth, and religious mysticism in the ideas of the American architect, Louis Kahn. Part One builds a chronology from Hermeticism and Jewish mysticisms into German Romanticism and how they played a role in the world of Kahn's parents shortly before his birth. The first chapter looks at mysticism and how it resonates with Kahn's descriptions of silence and light. The second chapter outlines the transition from rational aesthetics during the German Enlightenment into German Romanticism. This exposes the beginning of organicism as a way of seeing the world as a growth from a mythic image towards a physical manifestation made by artists and poets. In chapter three, the ideas from Romanticism inspire a philosophical and political movement for independence and cultural expression in the native region of Kahn's parents. Part Two concentrates on the American approach to Romanticism via Transcendentalism and how Transcendentalism influenced Kahn's childhood education in Philadelphia. It shows how the ideas of German Romanticism influenced English literature and criticism, especially Coleridge's theories of organicism and literary criticism. Chapter four presents how the American Transcendentalists correlated the mind and imagination to an organism. In chapter five, we see how Transcendentalism's aesthetic theory influenced the Public Industrial Arts School of Philadelphia's approach to teaching art. Louis Kahn attended this school. The final chapter deciphers Kahn's ideas, such as â form and design,â â material as spent light,â â measurable and unmeasurable,â â law and rule,â â order,â and â nature.â Within the framework of Romanticism and American Transcendentalism, these ideas become intelligible and an enriching approach to understand his architecture. / Master of Science

[pt] Costuma-se relacionar o problema da imaginação com o tratamento do ficcional ou do artístico, mas esta associação não foi sempre assim. Além do campo da arte, a imaginação envolve também o campo das disciplinas humanas, como a história, a antropologia, a política e inclusive a teologia. Pela sua estreita ligação com processos ditos físicos, a imaginação também intervém nas classificações das capacidades e funções físicas do cérebro. A discussão sobre a imaginação gravita entre o conhecimento do homem como ser biológico e como ser moral, entre a exterioridade da percepção e a interioridade do pensamento e do sentimento, entre a sua condição terrena e seu pertencimento ao universo divino. A abordagem da disputa sobre a imaginação no longo século XVIII, isto é, aproximadamente desde a época de Gottfried Leibniz, em que se condensa uma discussão propriamente alemã, até a época de Hegel, em que a história se torna uma espécie de necessidade da razão, começa com um problema. Por um lado, ela é acometida como estratégia para compreender em um plano profundo as condições de possibilidade da formalização disciplinar da historiografia no contexto da formalização e especialização disciplinar generalizada de todos os saberes previamente contidos nos vocábulos de ciência ou filosofia. Por outro lado, essa discussão tem sido recuperada somente a través do seu sequestro por cada uma dessas disciplinas formalizadas, e incorporada como parte de uma memória disciplinar que oblitera a sua pluralidade e produtividade iniciais. Essa produtividade contém uma noção de conhecimento muito mais ampla do que aquela que é manejada hoje em dia pelas disciplinas humanas, e aparece como muito mais conveniente para os seus objetivos. Neste trabalho se entende que a amplitude da concepção de conhecimento que convém às humanidades reside na unidade fundamental de criação e conhecimento que se verifica no pensamento anterior à discussão alemã do século XVIIIXIX sobre a imaginação, e que os termos de criação e conhecimento se tornaram antitéticos somente partir e como produto dessa discussão. / [en] The problem of imagination is most commonly related to fictional or artistic concerns. This association, however, hasn t always been so evident. Apart from the field of art, imagination concerns the humanities, such as history, anthropology, politics and even theology. Due to its close bind to so called physical processes, imagination also intervenes in the classification of the capacities and functions of the brain. The debate over imagination thus gravitates somewhere between the knowledge of man as a biological body and as a moral being, between exterior perception and the interiority of thought and feelings, between man s earthly condition and its belonging to the divine universe. The analysis of the dispute over imagination during the long nineteenth century, that is, approximately from the times of Gottfried Leibniz, in which a properly German discussion is articulated, until Hegel s time, when history became some kind of necessity of reason, begins with a problem. For one thing it is pursued as a strategy to understand more deeply the conditions of possibility for the disciplinary formalization of historiography in the context of the generalized formalization of all knowledge previously contained in the terms science or philosophy. On the other hand, this dispute has been so far undertaken only through its kidnapping by each one of those individual formal disciplines and incorporated as part of a discipline memory which obliterates its original productivity and plurality. That productivity contains a much wider notion of knowledge than the one nowadays adopted by the humanities, and appears as a more convenient approach for their goals. This thesis works on the understanding that the generosity of the concept of knowledge that better suits the humanities lies in the fundamental unity of creation and knowledge that was overthrown during the eighteenth-nineteenth century German debate over imagination, which made the terms creation and knowledge antithetical concepts.

Individual pro-social behaviour has been explored by academics and others in a variety of situations and contexts. Why people act selflessly on behalf of strangers is an intriguing topic and has not been studied in the specific context of the Crown courts before. This study has three phases. The first allows independent witnesses to describe their emotions, decision-making and motivations for taking part in the criminal justice process where there is no overt benefit for themselves to do so. The study identifies three key points in the witnesses’ journey through the process and tests the reactions of the witnesses at these points. This approach allows any changes in their thinking to be recorded and analysed. The second phase of the research asks other participants who have not been witnesses to imagine themselves becoming aware of three different scenarios where a violent crime is occurring. These participants are asked to think about their reactions to each scenario, and if they expect themselves to act as witnesses, asks what their motivations would be. The imagining witnesses’ reflections are compared to those of the real witnesses from Phase 1. Finally, phase three disseminates the results from phases one and two to senior professionals working in the criminal justice sector. Their thoughts and suggestions are also applied to the results to identify and encourage best practise.