![]() (Image credit: Gamer's Little Playground via YouTube) Kratos then travels back to the end of the Great War, saving the Titans from their defeat and bringing them to the present day in order to destroy Olympus. As she dies, she reveals that Kratos is really the son of Zeus. When he confronts Zeus, he takes the Blade of Olympus, but Athena sacrifices herself to prevent Zeus' death. Killing them, he gains the power to travel through time with the Loom of Fate. He finally finds the sisters, who refuse to help him. In his search for the sisters, he also learns that Zeus destroyed Sparta while Kratos has been away. Kratos eventually learns that the Sisters of Fate can send him back in time to undo his defeat by Zeus. She had raised the young king of Olympus and protected him from his father, Cronos, but when Zeus was grown, the Titans were overthrown by the Olympians in the Great War. While he is again taken to the Underworld, the Titan Gaia intervenes, seeking revenge on Zeus. He then offers the Blade of Olympus to Kratos in order to defeat the Colossus, though it takes the last of Kratos' godly power to charge the sword and destroy it.Īn injured Kratos is easily killed by Zeus after the former refuses to rejoin the Olympians. When he arrives, Zeus disguises himself as a giant eagle and drains much of Kratos' god powers to bring the Colossus of Rhodes to life. God of War II opens with Kratos bored and choosing to join a Spartan army assaulting Athens against Athena's warning. When he tries to commit suicide, Athena catches him, bringing him to Olympus as the new Greek God of War. When Kratos catches up to Ares, he uses Pandora's Box to gain the power of a god and eventually overcomes the God of War.Īthena returns to thank Kratos for his service, but while he is forgiven, he is told that his nightmares cannot be taken away. ![]() Ares kills Kratos, but our hero persists, fighting his way out of the Underworld. Kratos overcomes hordes of undead soldiers and monsters from Greek myth in his quests, eventually finding Pandora's Box in a temple on the back of the Titan Cronos. ![]() When Kratos realized what happened and renounced his service to Ares, an oracle cursed him with nightmares, binding his family's burnt ashes to his skin, giving Kratos the moniker "Ghost of Sparta." He swore allegiance to Ares if the god would give him the power to win, so Ares bestowed on Kratos the fiery Blades of Chaos, chains that burned into his arms.Īres tricked Kratos, however, causing the Spartan to kill his wife and daughter without knowing it. In the past, Kratos led armies in conquest, but nearly lost a battle. Over the course of the game, flashbacks reveal why Kratos suffers nightmares. For his final quest, the goddess Athena tasks Kratos with killing Ares, the Greek God of War. The game focuses on Kratos, a Spartan warrior who completes 10 years of service to the Olympian gods of Greek mythology so they can rid him of his nightmares. The original God of War launched on March 22, 2005, for the PS2. (Image credit: Boss Fight Database via YouTube)
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To evaluate what brain systems underlie higher mathematics, we scanned professional mathematicians and mathematically naive subjects of equal academic standing as they evaluated the truth of advanced mathematical and nonmathematical statements. "They can train themselves to become more sensitive to foreign speech sounds.The origins of human abilities for mathematics are debated: Some theories suggest that they are founded upon evolutionarily ancient brain circuits for number and space and others that they are grounded in language competence. Researchers can't say for certain how to apply these findings to real-life learning, but when it comes down to it, "Adults are trainable," Qi said. "Everyone has different levels of activation, but even if you don't have that sensitivity to begin with, you can still learn successfully if your brain is plastic enough." "We found that the more active the right hemisphere is, the more sensitive the listener is to acoustic differences in sound," Qi said. The eventual goal is to explore whether someone can practice sound recognition early in the process of learning a new language to potentially improve their success. She added that the right hemisphere's role then seems to diminish in those successful learners as they continue learning the language.Īdditional research will investigate whether the findings apply to those learning other languages, not just Mandarin. ![]() "It turns out that the right hemisphere is very important in processing foreign speech sounds at the beginning of learning," Qi said. To their surprise, they found that - although, as expected, the left hemisphere showed a substantial increase of activation later in the learning process - the right hemisphere in the most successful learners was most active in the early, sound-recognition stage. "Our research is the first to look at attainment and long-term retention of real-world language learned in a classroom setting, which is how most people learn a new language," Qi said.īy scanning each participant's brain with functional MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) at the beginning and end of the project, the scientists were able to see which part of the brain was most engaged while processing basic sound elements in Mandarin. Students attended class for three and a half hours a day, five days a week, completed homework assignments and took tests. The study continued by teaching the participants in a setting designed to replicate a college language class, although the usual semester was condensed into four weeks of instruction. "We used the brain activation patterns during this task to predict who would be the most successful learners" of the new language. "We asked: Were the tones of those two sounds similar or different?" she said. Researchers began by exposing the 24 participants in the study to pairs of sounds that were similar but began with different consonants, such as "bah" and "nah," and having them describe the tones, Qi said. It's during that process of distinguishing "acoustic details" of sounds where the right side of the brain is key, according to the new findings. ![]() The left hemisphere is undoubtedly important in language learning, Qi said, noting that clinical research on individuals with speech disorders has indicated that the left side of the brain is in many ways the hub of language processing.īut, she said, before any individuals - infants learning their native language or adults learning a second language - begin processing such aspects of the new language as vocabulary and grammar, they must first learn to identify its basic sounds or phonological elements. "For decades, everyone has focused on the left hemisphere, and the right hemisphere has been largely overlooked." ![]() "The left hemisphere is known as the language-learning part of the brain, but we found that it was the right hemisphere that determined the eventual success" in learning Mandarin, said Qi, assistant professor of linguistics and cognitive science. The findings could lead to instructional methods that potentially improve students' success in learning a new language. The study, published in May in the journal NeuroImage, focused on the roles of the brain's left and right hemispheres in language acquisition. Learning it in a class that essentially compresses a one-semester college course into a single month of intensive instruction - and agreeing to have your brain scanned before and after - might seem even more daunting.īut the 24 Americans who did just that have enabled University of Delaware cognitive neuroscientist Zhenghan Qi and her colleagues to make new discoveries about how adults learn a foreign language.
![]() Chance to Gain Higher-Grade Knowledge +7%. ![]() - Description: An Elixir with an offensive function.Use Simple Alchemy in the Processing window (L) to combine Corrupt Oil of Immortality x1 and Giant's Draught x1. * Only the effects of the last draught used will be applied. * While this item is in effect the effects of elixirs will not be applied, excluding those of Perfume of Courage, Perfume of Swiftness, Elixir of Deep Sea, Khalk's Elixir, Spirit Perfume Elixir, Whale Tendon Elixir or Tough Whale Tendon Elixir. * Higher-grade versions of the same elixir can be used as a substitute at a 1:3 ratio. Use Simple Alchemy in the Processing window (L) to combine Elixir of Fury x3, Elixir of Shock x3, Elixir of Perforation x3, and Tears of the Falling Moon x1. ※ By the power of immortality, the effects of the draught persist even if you die. ※ Only the effects of the last draught used will be applied. ※ While this item is in effect the effects of elixirs will not be applied, excluding those of Perfume of Courage, Perfume of Swiftness, Elixir of Deep Sea, Khalk's Elixir, Spirit Perfume Elixir, Whale Tendon Elixir, or Tough Whale Tendon Elixir. Use Simple Alchemy in the Processing window (L) to combine Corrupt Oil of Immortality x1 and Frenzy Draught x1. Market Price: Price info is currently unavailable.※ While the draught's effects are active, only the effects of perfumes, Whale Tendon Elixirs, and Tough Whale Tendon Elixirs will be stacked. ※ Higher-grade versions of the same elixir can be used as a substitute at a 1:3 ratio. - Usage: Gain the following effects or craft Frenzy Draught of Corruption.Processing (L) - Simple Alchemy with the following materials Abyssal Essence x1 - Description: A draught with an offensive function. |