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A peculiar experience– everyday life with chronic sensory disturbances after oxaliplatin treatment for colorectal cancer - a phenomenological study

open access: yesInternational Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being, 2021
Purpose: To deepen the understanding of how survivors’ experience and give meaning to the embodied phenomenon of chronic sensory disturbances in everyday life after oxaliplatin treatment for colorectal cancer.
Birgith Pedersen   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Focusing on body sites: the role of spatial attention in action perception. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Humans use the same representations to code self-produced and observed actions. Neurophysiological evidence for this view comes from the discovery of the so-called mirror neurons in premotor cortex of the macaque monkey.
Bach, P, Peatfield, NA, Tipper, SP
core   +2 more sources

Drifting perceptual patterns suggest prediction errors fusion rather than hypothesis selection: replicating the rubber-hand illusion on a robot

open access: yes, 2018
Humans can experience fake body parts as theirs just by simple visuo-tactile synchronous stimulation. This body-illusion is accompanied by a drift in the perception of the real limb towards the fake limb, suggesting an update of body estimation resulting
Cheng, Gordon   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Investigation of Cardio Exercise's Effects on Body Perception and Life Satisfaction in Relation with Some Parameters

open access: yesTürk Spor ve Egzersiz Dergisi, 2018
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of cardio exercise together with some parameters on body perception and life satisfaction. 48 sedentary individuals between 20-45 years old were voluntarily participated in the study.
Okan Volkan Karatan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Basic gestures as spatiotemporal reference frames for repetitive dance/music patterns in samba and charleston [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
THE GOAL OF THE PRESENT STUDY IS TO GAIN BETTER insight into how dancers establish, through dancing, a spatiotemporal reference frame in synchrony with musical cues.
Leman, Marc, Naveda, Luiz Alberto
core   +1 more source

Metrics of the perception of body movement

open access: yesJournal of Vision, 2008
Body movements are recognized with speed and precision, even from strongly impoverished stimuli. While cortical structures involved in biological motion recognition have been identified, the nature of the underlying perceptual representation remains largely unknown.
Giese, Martin A.   +2 more
openaire   +6 more sources

¿Los sujetos con obesidad subestiman su tamaño corporal? Una revisión narrativa de los métodos de estimación y teorías explicativas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The widespread of overweight and obesity in the developed countries is a real societal issue, nevertheless a considerable amount of subjects with obesity do not recognize their condition.
Granese, Valentina   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Asymmetrical Body Perception [PDF]

open access: yesPsychological Science, 2009
Perception of one's body is related not only to the physical appearance of the body, but also to the neural representation of the body. The brain contains many body maps that systematically differ between right- and left-handed people. In general, the cortical representations of the right arm and right hand tend to be of greater area in the left ...
Linkenauger, Sally A.   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using Interactive 3D Software to Create Manipulatable Human Figures for Body Perception Research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The poster presents the use of the DAZ3D program as a measurement tool for body size perception. When studying body schema, researchers often rely on human figure comparisons to examine body size perceptions.
Lein, Grayson P., Livesay, Kay
core   +1 more source

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