Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kosslyn, acknowledged to be a top expert in the new field of mental imagery, this year won the prestigious National Academy of Sciences award for outstanding research scientist 35 years or younger, professors at Harvard reported this week...
...Kosslyn said he is embarking into another new field, which he calls computational neuropsychology. This subject involves the relation of neurobiology to psychological mental processes Kosslyn said he will travel to Lebanon, N.H., this week to do research on a "split brain" patient a person whose cerebral hemispheres are not connected Kosslyn added he plans to continue research in this field at Harvard...
...SURELY no modern audience is often asked to expend the kind of mental effort that keeping up with The School for Scandal requires. The plot is spiderwebbed from the beginning: a "school" of conniving gossips with names like Benjamin Backbite. Lady Sneer-well, and Mr. Snake, whose greatest pleasure is to ruin the reputations of upright citizens through rumor. Lady Sneerwell (Shirley Wilber), it turns out, is also passing the time by angling for the heart of a young heir to-be-named Charles Surface (Stephen Rowe); her strategy is to connive with Charles's brother Joseph (Tony Shalhoub...
...sport that places a premium on both physical and mental preparation. Rogers epitomizes the dedicated athletic. "He set a tough standard right from the start." Coach Harry Parker says, recalling that Rogers initiated grueling double workouts daily a full eight months before the season began this year...
...Mayotte, the youngest of eight tennis-minded children, can still remimsce about high school trench classes and complain about his old parochial school uniforms: Despite his age. Mayotte is firmly committed to the game. His rigorous travel schedule and the necessary mental preparation have undoubtedly forced him to make certain sacrificed...