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Body parts in Hausa proverbs [PDF]
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2012 The word “proverb” from Latin “pro-verbium” (“pro” meaning “in front of” and “verbium” meaning “word”), suggests that a proverb takes the place of ordinary words. Proverbs have had a great influence on the lifestyles of many people, mainly through means
Sergio Baldi
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Categorisation of body parts in bilinguals
Journal of the European Second Language AssociationRecent categorisation studies have shown that languages segment parts of the body differently and that even if two languages have equivalent body part terms, they cover slightly different portions of the body.
Miho Sasaki, Yoshiko Murahata
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Articulated Human Body Parts Detection Based on Cluster Background Subtraction and Foreground Matching [PDF]
, 2013 Detecting people or other articulated objects and localizing their body parts is a challenging computer vision problem as their movement is unpredictable under circumstances of partial and full occlusions.
Mihaylova, Lyudmila +5 more
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, 2023 Medina, JaredIn the mirror box illusion, synchronous multisensory stimulation of a hidden hand alongside a reflected hand in the mirror can lead to 'visual capture' – where participants experience their hidden hand in the location of the reflected ...
Bhattacharyya, Pushpita
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Brain Sciences, 2021 Body odours and their importance for human chemical communication, e.g., in the mother–child relationship, are an increasing focus of recent research.
Katharina Hierl +2 more
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More than skin deep: body representation beyond primary somatosensory cortex [PDF]
, 2010 The neural circuits underlying initial sensory processing of somatic information are relatively well understood. In contrast, the processes that go beyond primary somatosensation to create more abstract representations related to the body are less clear.
Longo, Matthew R. +2 more
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FROM CAMERA AS PART OF THE BODY, TO CAMERA – THE BODY PART
Design/Arts/Culture, 2023 The digital world is where 3.4 billion people communicate via digital images through social media. On average, each one of us spends 6 hours each day in front of a screen. The digital images rapidly appearing and disappearing under our scrolling fingers shape our perception, time and body movements, brain structure, and responses in a complex ...
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Body-part adpositions in Gaahmg--Grammaticalized forms with person-marker vowels
Studies in African Linguistics, 2014 Many African languages employ body parts as adpositions (Heine 1989), the general pattern in Gaahmg, with one locative postposition perhaps derived from ‘vagina’.
Timothy M. Stirtz
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Task-Specific Recognition Signals Are Located on the Legs in a Social Insect
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Task allocation ensures a high level of organization within social insect colonies. Workers reveal their task assignment through cuticular hydrocarbon (CHC) signals. The source and chemical composition of these signals are largely unknown. We ask whether
Qike Wang +5 more
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Neural Kinesthetic Contribution to Motor Imagery of Body Parts: Tongue, Hands, and Feet
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021 Motor imagery (MI) is assimilated to a perception-action process, which is mentally represented. Although several models suggest that MI, and its equivalent motor execution, engage very similar brain areas, the mechanisms underlying MI and their ...
Irini Giannopulu, Haruo Mizutani
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