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A new neurocognitive interpretation of shoulder position sense during reaching: unexpected competence in the measurement of extracorporeal space [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Background.The position sense of the shoulder joint is important during reaching. Objective. To examine the existence of additional competence of the shoulder with regard to the ability to measure extracorporeal space, through a novel approach, using ...
Bini, Fabiano   +11 more
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Senses of place: architectural design for the multisensory mind

open access: yesCognitive Research, 2020
Traditionally, architectural practice has been dominated by the eye/sight. In recent decades, though, architects and designers have increasingly started to consider the other senses, namely sound, touch (including proprioception, kinesthesis, and the ...
Charles Spence
doaj   +1 more source

Action sounds update the mental representation of arm dimension:contributions of kinaesthesia and agency [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Auditory feedback accompanies almost all our actions, but its contribution to body-representation is understudied. Recently it has been shown that the auditory distance of action sounds recalibrates perceived tactile distances on one’s arm, suggesting ...
Bianchi-Berthouze, Nadia   +3 more
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A Survey on Teaching and Learning Recursive Programming

open access: yesInformatics in Education, 2014
We survey the literature about the teaching and learning of recursive programming. After a short history of the advent of recursion in programming languages and its adoption by programmers, we present curricular approaches to recursion, including a ...
Christian RINDERKNECHT
doaj   +1 more source

How To Teach Knot Tying: A Kinesthetic Approach

open access: yesMedEdPORTAL, 2013
Introduction The purpose of this resource is to introduce surgical instructors to a better way of teaching the basic surgical skill of knot tying and to provide quality materials for trainees to use as they learn to tie surgical knots.
Edward Hyung Kim   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Body Consciousness in Modern Urban Surroundings: Freerunning and Parkour [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The paper covers the matter of body consciousness in modern urban surroundings. Somatic disciplines known as Freerunning and Parkour are presented as activities of a performative nature that can be understood and practised as means of redefining an ...
Petri, Jakub
core   +2 more sources

Meditative Movement for Depression and Anxiety

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2013
This review focuses on Meditative Movement (MM) and its effects on anxiety, depression and other affective states. MM is a term identifying forms of exercise that use movement in conjunction with meditative attention to body sensations, including ...
Peter ePayne   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The right supramarginal gyrus is important for proprioception in healthy and stroke affected participants: a functional MRI study

open access: yesFrontiers in Neurology, 2015
Human proprioception is essential for motor control, yet its central processing is still debated. Previous studies of passive movements and illusory vibration have reported inconsistent activation patterns related to proprioception, particularly in high
Ettie eBen-Shabat   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Acute effect of single-session physio-ball wall squat training on knee active reposition sense and isokinetic parameters in sedentary female collegiate students: an experimental study

open access: yesHuman Movement
Purpose The current study aimed to examine the acute effect of physioball wall squat training on knee joint active reposition senses and isokinetic parameters of knee flexion and extension in sedentary collegiate female students. Methods An experimental
Mariam Ameer   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Empathy, engagement, entrainment: the interaction dynamics of aesthetic experience [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
A recent version of the view that aesthetic experience is based in empathy as inner imitation explains aesthetic experience as the automatic simulation of actions, emotions, and bodily sensations depicted in an artwork by motor ...
A Clark   +81 more
core   +1 more source

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