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Showing 1 to 20 of 127 for “"Sensory Experience"”.
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Our Third Ear: A Multi-Sensory Experience of Sound
Our Third Ear aims to create a multi-sensory experience by fusing sight, touch, and sound. By creating a means of physically feeling music, listeners can connect with songs, bands, and individual musicians on a profoundly personal level. The potential for unintended applications like learning to …
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Embracing the Air: The Sensory Experience of Hemp-Lime Architecture
Through this research, I explore the multi-sensory properties of hemp-lime construction as an antidote to the overly visual experience of contemporary architecture. I begin design from the material and elaborate on the senses involved with the dynamics of hemp walls: the airy trio of humidity, …
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Sensory experience to promote well-being a health club design
… site locates a facility at a T-stop. The health experience can be made more varied yet comprehensive by increasing users' awareness of sensory experiences in their surroundings. Movements, actions are grouped into a section according to what the body senses while engaged in an activity. These …
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Postnatal Development of the Brain: Effects of Visual and Complex Sensory Experience
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Exploring The Impact of Simulated Transfer of Sensory Experience on Social Behavior and Empathy
… by many subconscious factors including low-level sensory perception. Many of our emotions, biases, and impulses are driven by the information we perceive from the world around us and within our own bodies. In this thesis, I propose methods for simulating the transfer of elements of first-person …
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The Effect of Sensory Experience and Movement Observation on Motor Adaptation to Novel Force Perturbations
… by their direct trial-and-error movement experience, incrementally updating predictive control on the next movement; how the brain processes sensed errors into adaptation is not fully known. We may also learn to move through the observation of the movements of others, as visually observed …
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On sensory experience of historic architecture: an empirical review of sensory perceptions in historic buildings, aiming to inform their conservation process.
This thesis studies peoples sensory perceptions of historic architecture, exploring the physical triggers for such experience, and connecting these with what can and should be maintained through building conservation. Sensory design is a developing field in architecture. The research argues that …
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Experience-Oriented Ecological Design: A Methodological Framework to Improve Human Experience in Urban Public Space Ecological Design
This thesis proposes that sensory experience should play an important role in setting up a direct relationship between people and the natural environment, and it is based on the premise that contemporary urban public space ecological designs. Are often deficient in this regard. In order to develop …
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Examining factors associated with cave visitor satisfaction
… success, it is necessary to understand visitors' experiences and satisfaction. Thus, this study investigated factors (i.e., socio-demographics, involvement, perception of pricing, motivation, sensation seeking attributes, and sensory experience) that may influence cave visitors' overall …
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Characterization of CPG15 during cortical development and activity dependent plasticity
… is thought to be key to the translation of sensory experience into long-term changes in synaptic structure and function. Here we show that cgp15, a gene encoding an extracellular signaling molecule that promotes dendritic and axonal growth and synaptic maturation, is regulated in the …
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Modified postnatal social experience alters intersensory development of bobwhite quail chicks
… have begun to explore the features of perinatal experience which facilitate infants’ abilities to integrate information from the various sensory modalities. The present study utilized a precocial avian infant, the bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus), to explore 1) what types of postnatal social …
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The Seeker Loves the Burden
… concern for the places we inhabit, a love of sensory experience, imagery, and description, and an ear for the music of language, often experimenting with words to heighten the psychosomatic experience of their sonic qualities.
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The Seeker Loves the Burden
… concern for the places we inhabit, a love of sensory experience, imagery, and description, and an ear for the music of language, often experimenting with words to heighten the psychosomatic experience of their sonic qualities.
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Towards Experiential Critique of the Capitalocene. Rethinking Immersion in Moving Image Installations by Rachel Rose, Sondra Perry and Hito Steyerl
… projection technologies to create an immersive experience, that can appear to be for the sake of sensory experience. However, throughout the thesis, I argue that these artworks possess the potential to reconfigure the concept of immersion itself, exploring it as a mode of experiential critique …
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Development and plasticity of the functional laminar mesoscale organization of the primary auditory cortex
Early sensory experience is fundamental for proper structural and functional organization of the brain. A brain region that particularly relies on sensory input during a critical period of development is the primary auditory cortex (A1). The functional architecture of A1 in adult mammals has been …
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Touch taste hear smell see remember : District Six
… lies in the evocation of emotion through the sensory experience of architecture. I believe this is linked to issues of memory and spirituality, both dealing with an essence of other - a sense of presence or life that makes one aware that one is not alone in that space but is rather surrounded …
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Avant lounge exotica
… ideas around intimacy and interiority, and the sensory experience within a space. By creating imaginary environments and presenting different iterations of these spaces, I try to acknowledge the personal, psychological experience in a private interior. This interior is one that exists as part of …
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Gardening the elements in a landscape of technology
… a Landscape of Technology discusses three multisensory environmental sculptures: Wave Garden, Eyes of the Wind, and Thermal Delight. Each of these installations explores the relationship between people, nature and technology. It is my thesis that technology can be used to enhance the intimacy of …
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Another Concrete In the Wall
… concrete surface in order to enhance this multi-sensory experience. This study began with the design of a concrete wall and evolved into the design of a single-family home.
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Understanding the Meanings of Abstract Concepts: Keeping it Grounded and Real
… entities in the world that cannot be directly experienced through our senses (e.g., truth, morality). How we learn, represent, and use abstract words is one of the deepest problems in cognitive science today. I investigated this question in two experiments. In Experiment 1, I examined the …
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