(1) Animals with medial prefrontal cortex or parietal cortex lesions and sham-operated and non-operated controls were tested for the acquisition of an adjacent arm task that accentuated the importance of egocentric spatial localization and a cheese board task that accentuated the importance of allocentric spatial localization.
(2) The purpose of the present experiment was to examine the role of familiar size in judgments of size and egocentric distance under natural (non-reduced) viewing conditions.
(3) This error can be explained on the one hand in terms of response dependence or egocentrism, or on the other hand as due to a lack of adequate spatial cues to allocentric position.
(4) Two experiments were performed to assess the accuracy and precision with which adults perceive absolute egocentric distances to visible targets and coordinate their actions with them when walking without vision.
(5) There has been little impetus to follow up these computations with experimental observations, because the vertical disparities that normally occur between the images in the two eyes have always been regarded as being too small to be of significance for visual perception and because experiments have consistently shown that our conscious appreciation of egocentric distance is rather crude and unreliable.
(6) A second group of rats was trained on a right-left discrimination (egocentric) and a place-learning task (allocentric).
(7) This paper reports an exploratory study of potential correlates of Exner's Rorschach Egocentricity Index, a measure of self-focusing, in a sample of 70 psychiatric inpatients.
(8) It's not egocentricity that makes me state that – as I explain in the introduction, most books about creativity are really dull.
(9) Further, the data showed that, for some subjects, variations in the positions of the two eyes do not have equal effects on egocentric direction.
(10) This study was carried out to determine whether certain types of egocentric perception exist in the children of psychotic parents that might represent a clue to vulnerability.
(11) The subjects took longer to make an initial response, made more correct, and somewhat fewer egocentric responses under the high differentiation condition than under the low differentiation condition.
(12) However, the close conceptual relationship between moral development and egocentrism throughout life received only slight statistical support, which attained significance only in the fifteen- to nineteen-year-old age group.
(13) An egocentric pattern of sexual behavior appeared in the marital relationships of abusive husbands.
(14) This study examined the Rorschach and MMPI covariates of Exner's Egocentricity Index, 3r + (2): R, in a sample of child and adolescent outpatients (n = 46).
(15) Analyses indicate that cognitive capacity and cognitive egocentrism are significantly related to and predictive of 5 of 7 decision-making variables considered in the study.
(16) Men reared by punitive parents showed a tendency to be egocentric.
(17) The results showed that S had more egocentric communication and active disqualifications than NS and N. S were also less likely to communicate that they kept track of and understood the other spouse's communication.
(18) The data suggest a double dissociation of function between medial prefrontal cortex and parietal cortex in terms of coding of egocentric versus allocentric spatial information.
(19) Three types of neurons were identified by rotating the animals: egocentric and allocentric, and indeterminate.
(20) Furthermore, evidence has begun to accumulate that the CN is involved in the processing of a very specific class of spatial cues, namely, egocentric cues (localization with reference to the organism).
Egotism
Definition:
(n.) The practice of too frequently using the word I; hence, a speaking or writing overmuch of one's self; self-exaltation; self-praise; the act or practice of magnifying one's self or parading one's own doings. The word is also used in the sense of egoism.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's not egotism, it's something else, a weird unshakeable belief.
(2) These patients were treated with pyridoxine, and the specific activities of EGOT were determined after 2 and 4 weeks.
(3) We tested the validity of the egotism model of human helplessness.
(4) Her newspaper profiles over the years are peppered with self-deprecating references to her sporting ruthlessness: her constant mentions of her selfishness and egotism; her win-at-all-costs, only-gold-medals-matter mentality; or the time she flung her helmet at her boyfriend in frustration after losing a race.
(5) Before treatment, the patients showed a deficiency of vitamin B6 as determined by 1) a comparison of the specific activities of EGOT with those of a control group (P less than 0.001); and 2) a differential assay based upon the principle of unsaturation and saturation of a Coenzyme-Apoenzyme System (CAS), as applied to EGOT.
(6) The specific activities (S.A.) of the glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase from erythrocytes (EGOT) of 75 women taking 16 diversified contraceptive formulations were determined by the principle (CAS) of unsaturation and saturation of receptors of the Coenzyme-Apoenzyme-System with the coenzyme, pyridoxal 5'-phosphate.
(7) Are you a gay builder, a straight hairdresser, a female lorry driver or a politician without a trace of egotism?
(8) Following changes were observed in women treated with oral contraceptives: 1) increased excretion of kynurenic acid and xanthurenic acid following tryptophan load; 2) increased EGOT activity and also an increase in vitro stimulation of EGOT with added PALP; 3) increased plasma vitamin A levels; 4) fall in erythrocyte folate levels; 5) fall in erythrocyte transketolase activity with no change in vitro stimulation with TPP; and 6) fall in erythrocyte riboflavin concentration associated with a decrease in erythrocyte glutathione reductase activity and increase in vitro stimulation with FAD.
(9) Stimulation of the EGOT by exogenous PLP (EGOT index) was less in dialyzed patients (1.60) than normal subjects (1.80) while the undialyzed uremic subjects had a greater than normal stimulation (2.12).
(10) Altruism and egotism are the same thing,” she says.
(11) Ambitious, serious, and much superior to the average ministerial platform speech, it may have lacked the virtuoso egotism of Boris Johnson’s address soon afterwards in the same hall.
(12) If Europe has been reunified, it's not for it to then fall into egotism or 'each for one's own'.
(13) No visit from Dr Freud is needed to recognise that the devouring snake lurking deep in the body of the hysteric in "The Bosom Serpent" is not just the "egotism" of the longer title of the story, but guilt for auto-erotic naughtiness.
(14) GSH Px activity was not found to correlate with hexokinase or EGOT activity, indicating that it was not a strongly age-dependent enzyme.
(15) After six months' treatment, EGOT activity and the calculated total EGOT activity were increased, but no changes were observed in the degree of in vitro stimulation (which is a more reliable parameter).
(16) The alternative is to become a spacefaring civilization, and a multi-planetary species.” Ashlee Vance , longtime tech journalist and author of Elon Musk: Tesla, Space, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, thinks these ambitions are driven by a mix of entrepreneurial curiosity, altruism and a dash of egotism.
(17) It is difficult, in fact, to reread "Rappaccini's Daughter", with its portrait of a father ready to sacrifice his child to his intellectual egotism, and not be put in mind of something like Hawthorne's cruelly fluctuating mood swings about his own children.
(18) Subjects attributing their failure to religious discrimination by gentiles reported feeling more aggression, sadness, anxiety, and egotism on the Mood Adjective Check List than those who could not invoke anti-Semitism as an explanation for their failure.
(19) In studies of anaemic states, subjects with iron deficiency anaemia demonstrated elevated levels of both PnK and saturated EGOT, while seven out of 17 subjects with inflammatory anaemia had subnormal PnK but variable saturated EGOT activities.
(20) But he warned against a retreat into nationalism after Brexit, saying the bloc could enjoy a future of “unity and cohesion” but only if EU and national leaders guarded against “the major risk – that of dislocation, egotism, a turning in on ourselves”.