A humanización de animais na narrativa de Cunqueiro : comentario de tres contos de corvos. 'La humanización de animales en la narrativa de Cunqueiro : comentario de tres cuentos de cuervos'.

Se analiza el proceso de humanización de animales que se produce en gran parte de la narrativa de Cunqueiro. Especialmente en la trilogía de relatos cortos, donde se comparte el hecho de tener un cuervo, al que se le atribuyen calidades humanas, como personaje principal. En el primero de los textos 'El cuervo blanco' la humanización es muy débil. En 'Soleiro en figura de cuervo' es progresiva. Y finalmente, en 'El cuervo Estanislao' la humanización es más fuerte. El análisis de estos textos demuestra la singular riqueza de la narrativa de Cunqueiro, en la que brotan constantemente nuevos recursos para resolver una situación. La humanización de animales como procedimiento literario da lugar a la individualización del relato, confiriéndole autonomía.

La casa de los cuervos.

Author's pseud., Hugo Wast, at head of title.

Festín de cuervos; novela histórica. La verdad sobre la muerte de Carranza,

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Differential prefrontal-like deficit in children after cerebellar astrocytoma and medulloblastoma tumor

BACKGROUND This study was realized thanks to the collaboration of children and adolescents who had been resected from cerebellar tumors. The medulloblastoma group (CE+, n = 7) in addition to surgery received radiation and chemotherapy. The astrocytoma group (CE, n = 13) did not receive additional treatments. Each clinical group was compared in their executive functioning with a paired control group (n = 12). The performances of the clinical groups with respect to controls were compared considering the tumor's localization (vermis or hemisphere) and the affectation (or not) of the dentate nucleus. Executive variables were correlated with the age at surgery, the time between surgery-evaluation and the resected volume. METHODS The executive functioning was assessed by means of WCST, Complex Rey Figure, Controlled Oral Word Association Test (letter and animal categories), Digits span (WISC-R verbal scale) and Stroop test. These tests are very sensitive to dorsolateral PFC and/or to medial frontal cortex functions. The scores for the non-verbal Raven IQ were also obtained. Direct scores were corrected by age and transformed in standard scores using normative data. The neuropsychological evaluation was made at 3.25 (SD = 2.74) years from surgery in CE group and at 6.47 (SD = 2.77) in CE+ group. RESULTS The Medulloblastoma group showed severe executive deficit (