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Pilar Pérez

The contributions of Ramon y Cajal and other Spanish authors to hypnosis.

The authors review the most important Spanish contributions to hypnosis during the 19th and 20th centuries, with emphasis on the work of Santiago Ramon y Cajal, winner of the 1906 Nobel Prize in medicine. It is widely accepted that he provided a basic foundation for modern neurosciences with his work on neuronal staining and synaptic transmission. What is missing in most accounts of his work is his longstanding interest and work on hypnosis and anomalous phenomena. This article summarizes that lost legacy, discusses other Spanish hypnosis pioneers and gives a brief overview of current hypnosis activities in Spain.

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Una Aportación A La Lingüística: Los Sonidos Del Habla Y Su Organización Funcional

The aim of this paper is to make a contribution to the study of the functional organization of phonological units, by assuming the theoretical and methodological perspective of mathematical Chaos Theory. Indexes of structuration and redundancy of the systems that contain these kinds of units are defined and a sample of languages is analyzed following this criterion. The treatment of the data in statistical terms, i.e. the number of phonological units of a language, indexes of structuration and the relationship between the number of phonological units and indexes of structuration, reveals a meaningful distance to normal distribution. The treatment of the data by means of Lyapunov test permit…

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