My favorite painting

Hello everyone, how are you???
I hope you are fine
This week I am going talk about my favorite painting: “Guernica”. This one was painted by Picasso in memory of the city of Guernica, which was bombed in the Spanish civil war, by the franquists.
The spanish republic asked Picasso to make a painting for the Spanish Pavilion, during the international exposition of Paris in 1937.


In the painting you can see: a bull, this animal represents the Spanish culture; a mother crying for her dead son; a warrior with his neck cut off; a horse that shouts intensely: this animal represents the maximum pain; and the figure that’s most important for me is the flower, that represents peace in the middle of the war.
In my opinion, Guernica is a very sad painting, because it showes the cruelest side of the war; but the same time it’s very interesting, because has a critical view about the Spanish society in war.
I like very much this painting because Picasso used the expressionist art. This type of art showes the drama of situations, so you can imagine how people lived in the war, how they resist the repression of the government of Franco, how they survived and the most important, how they held out heroically and fought for their ideals and for liberty.
I hope you like this exposition.
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Working memory resources and interference in directed forgetting

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Well, this week I’m going to talk about one research that has showed that the hability to inhibit irrelevant information is related to Working Memory (WM) capacity. This research was done by Maria Felipa Soriano and Maria Teresa Bajo, who make three experiments to explore and check this relationship between inhibition of irrelevant information and WM. They use a list method directed-forgetting task (DF) in participants varying in WM capacity. When they had the results, they discovered in Experiment 1, DF effects were only found for participants with low WM capacity, whereas high WM capacity participants did not show this effect. In the second experiment, 2 and 3 interference was increased by introducing a memory load between the to-be-forgotten and the to-be-remembered list (Experiment2) and by increasing the list length (Experiment 3).

In conclusion, the reversal of the effect for the high and low WM capacity group depending on the degree of interference suggests that inhibition in the DF procedure depends on both: the degree of interference experienced by the participants, and the availability of controlled resources.
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My favorite website

Hi everyone again; this week I am going talk about my favorite website. I chose www.emol.cl, because you can be informed about news of the country, the world, sports, science and many other things…….whenever you it want. As you can imagine, it’s very interesting, funny and it works if you want to r relax. It is also very useful, cause all the information you need is right there, at the reach of your hand.
I knew this website by my brother Sebastian. He likes very much to see national news, but he never has time to watch them on TV, so he must see them by using the emol. And I use this web site one year ago.
Well, I hope you like this
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