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Dementia in Latin America: Assesing the present and envisioning the future

Latin American and Caribbean countries (LACs) constitute a region of incredible exquisiteness, heterogeneity and cultural crossbreeding. It is also a region which faces vast tensions for human development. Neurodegenerative diseases in this region are not an exception. LACs possess some of the world’s largest genetic population of multiple dementia subtypes. Unsuitable diagnostic procedures, alongside with […]

Are we really happy the 12th month of the year?

Who said that the holidays are a moment of encounter, of reconciliation, of love, of peace and happiness? By the way, this is what almost all radio and television messages say in every corner of the country during the month of December, and fortunately it is one of the times of the year when these […]

Boredom: good or bad?

For Dr. Agustín Ibáñez, director of the Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience (INCYT, CONICET-INECO-FAVALORO), there are some key processes that neuroscience considers in the experience of boredom: fluctuating attention, the presence of a negative affect and the overestimation of time   To access the full note please click here

Grounding translation and interpreting in the brain: what has been, can be, and must be done

Muñoz E, Calvo N & García AM (2018). Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2018.1549575 Este trabajo ofrece un recorrido histórico sobre los principales hitos en el estudio neurocognitivo de la traducción y la interpretación. En particular, se reseñan los principales hallazgos en torno a la direccionalidad, las unidades de traducción y la experticia […]

Conference of Dr. García in the Faculty of Humanities, U. de Santiago de Chile

  Project Participative Strategic Initiatives FAHU. The outstanding researcher presented his lecture «Neurosciences, language and education: pedagogical contributions from interdisciplinarity», in the Hall of Honor of our University. The comments of the conference were made by the Director of the Department of Linguistics and Literature FAHU-USACH, Dr, Edinson Muñoz. Dr. in Letters of the National […]

Criminal statistics: Why there are more homicides on weekends

    For Ibáñez, a professor at the University of California and Adolfo Ibáñez University, there are several factors that explain these numbers: «The consumption of alcohol (and less frequently, drugs), which tend to increase over the weekend, would be a critical factor in the increase of homicides Other less studied factors, such as the […]

Dr. García lectured at the Ministry of Education

On November 15, Dr. Adolfo García offered a lecture at the Ministry of Education to discuss the role of English in the internationalization of higher education in Argentina. The event was hosted by the British Council and it represented a first step to consolidate an inter-institutional platform fostering international mobility for students, professors, and researchers. […]