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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Frisson"”.
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Interoceptive Interventions: Interfacing with Inner States
… individual proof-of-concept wearable prototypes “Frisson”, “ReCode”, and “Somnia” - grounded in neuroscience theories and evidence from embodied cognition. Frisson is a system targeted to elicit aesthetic chills and their downstream cognitive effects. I showcase experimental evidence of chills’ …
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Body driven cognition : writing to the body to influence the mind
… the design of two wearable devices, MoveU and Frisson that highlight the modulation of cognitive processes through body-based input. The contribution of this thesis is twofold: first, the tools developed in this work provide a platform for researchers to experiment by engineering cognitive …
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Etude de la colonisation des milieux tourbeux du Plateau de Saint-Hubert (Belgique) par les macroinvertébrés aquatiques
Les milieux tourbeux sont des habitats semi-naturels qui ont été fortement affectés par la fragmentation. Actuellement, de larges projets de restauration visent à recréer ces milieux. Des indicateurs de suivi sont dès lors nécessaires pour évaluer la réponse post-restauration des espèces à ces …
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Dark mirrors and disembodied spirits : gender, sexuality and incest in selected fiction by Daphne du Maurier
… narrative with a nameless and pervasive frisson of unease, but it is only recently that critics have begun seriously to investigate the shadowy complexities of her widely-read novels. In this thesis, three of du Maurier's best-known works 'Jamaica Inn', 'Rebecca' and 'My Cousin Rachel' …
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Thrillology: Affective Intensities and the Everyday-Spectacular in American Literature and Culture
… Reed’s MumboJumbo presents a very different frisson of social rebellion that is determined to find fulfillment within its defiance and re-appropriation of cultural identity, no matter the stacked-odds confronting protagonists. And, book-ending nearly a century of fictional engagements with …
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The wanderer: peregrinations in eldritch regions
… depository in Boston Spa, Yorkshire – I felt a frisson on opening the book and reading the first sentence: 'On the 14th July 1935 Mr Cornelius Letherbotham, an English gentleman resident in Buenos Aires, died under extraordinary and distressing circumstances,' (Owen, 1947, p.9). The reason I …
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Elsewhere: In Defense of Daydreaming
<p>Much like music, organic life is an absurd, improbable, and serendipitous instance. I set circular, electric, acoustic, and magnetic forces in motion and allow them to coalesce freely in the hopes of synthesizing unexpected moments of beauty, connection, and harmony.</p>