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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Body representation"”.
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Can Adolescent Girls' Self-esteem be Linked to Body Representation in Physical Education?: A Synthesis Project
… is to review the literature on the impact of body representation in physical education on adolescent girls’ self-esteem. To guide the purpose of this project, the following questions are used; (a) adolescent girls who express low self-esteem due to body representation within physical …
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Cuerpo, mujer y nación: el Bildungsroman posrevolucionario mexicano
This dissertation analyzes the human body’s representation as a discursive space in three coming of age Mexican novels: Cartucho (1931) by Nellie Campobello, Yo soy mi casa (1957) by Guadalupe Amor, and Balún Canán (1957) by Rosario Castellanos. In these novels, the historical, political, and …
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Disturbances of multisensory processing in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: a behavioural and neurophysiological account
… in low and high schizotypes (iii) exploring how body representation abnormalities in both schizophrenic patients and high schizotypes affect basic processes of self-perception. In line with previous research showing a reduced multisensory acuity in schizophrenia, results from Chapter Three …
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Neural correlates for body perception development during childhood
… of the neural mechanism underlying emotional body perception, during childhood, using Event-Related Potentials (ERPs). Understanding other people’s emotional status is a crucial need in children’s everyday interactions. Literature suggests that children benefit from body cues as much as they …
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Virtual humanoids and presence in virtual environments
… a variety of current approaches to the representation of virtual humanoids, as well as methods for kinematic and physiology simulation. Substantial improvements and novel approaches are introduced in the areas of deformation of musculature, multimodal representation and synchronization, …