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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Body schema"”.
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Effects of altered sensory input from the neck on cerebellar function, body schema and sensorimotor integration
… the perception of head position relative to the body. Chronic alterations in afferent input from the neck may be studied in individuals with subclinical neck pain (SCNP), defined as non-severe recurrent neck pain lasting at least three months in the past year and testable on pain-free days so as …
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Neuroplasticity and chronic low back pain: an investigation into altered tactile discrimination, body schema and motor function.
… neurophysiology and sensory outputs such as body schema and perception are altered alongside motor function impairments. Novel interventions to reverse these impairments coincide with reductions in pain intensity and perception. CLBP shares some characteristics with PLP and CRPS so it is …
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Re-framing the dancer: the critical evaluation of an aesthetic and ideology for integrated dance
… work that this study has documented. The body (in dance) is understood as a complex phenomenon that engages with issues of consciousness, perception and temporality. The synthesis of philosophy (most specifically phenomenology), structuralist theory (with reference to Althusser and …
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Effect of neck muscle vibration on upper limb sensorimotor integration and motor performance
… likely due to vibration-induced alterations in body schema leading to neuroplastic adaptations and reduced accuracy.
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Learners’ Experience of Presence in Virtual Worlds
… as stages in students’ development of a virtual body image, body schema and virtual identity. Different learning activities are more appropriate to different stages in this development. The thesis concludes with a suggested model for supporting students’ development of presence. The implications …
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Figuring Disability and Illness: D. H. Lawrence’s Masculine Somatology
… writer and to understand his writing of the male body from both a social model of disability and a biographical perspective. In so doing, the thesis contributes a fresh approach to Lawrence studies while at the same time fostering critical and creative reflections on the relatively new field of …
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Impact of neck muscle fatigue on upper limb sensorimotor integration
… input from the neck due to fatigue alters body schema, impacting awareness of upper limb position sense, resulting in decreased upper limb performance accuracy.
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Verbalisation of non-verbal communication in classical Greek texts.
… of NVC includes the study of gesture and body language, as well as investigations into kinesics, manipulable elements of appearance, autonomic nervous system responses, haptics, posture, gait, and mobility. Within these areas of inquiry there exist sub-divisions that must also be taken …
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Teenage Clumsiness: Does it exist?
… that specifically do not depend on strength, or body awareness. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether female adolescents’ awareness of their body size and movement was influenced by biological maturation, and whether adolescent awkwardness could be detected in performance of sport …