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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"kinaesthetic"”.
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Kinaesthetic impulses : aesthetic experience, bodily knowledge, and pedagogical practices in Germany, 1871-1918
… encounter with an artwork was primarily kinaesthetic: an artwork elicited an unconscious and immediate effect on the musculature of its beholder. I examine three episodes, in which this idea was employed to pedagogical ends at the turn of the twentieth century. In the work of the artist …
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A Somatics of Affect: Articulating Affective-Kinaesthetic Experience through BMC approaches to Performance and Writing
… a paradoxical lack of theorisation regarding kinaesthetic experience in ‘the affective turn’ (Clough, 2007). Specifically, I identify a kinaesthetic gap in affect studies literatures, whose genealogy can be traced to a process philosophy lineage, thereby theorising affect as nonconscious, …
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An investigation of the development and evaluation of online approaches for improved kinaesthetic learning in science
Kinaesthetic learning approaches (KL) offer great potential to enhance learning in the advanced molecular sciences. However, online KL remains under-researched and poorly implemented on affordable, scalable platforms. Furthermore, there appears to be a disconnect between the fields of education …
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Investigation of head repositioning accuracy as a measure of cervicocephalic kinaesthetic sensibility in patients with chronic neck pain
… This is commonly referred to as cervicocephalic kinaesthetic sensibility (KS). Cervicocephalic KS has generally been studied utilising head repositioning accuracy (HRA) tasks. At the beginning of this study only seven reports had been published in the area. Following review of this literature, …
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Somatosensory wearable technology in the dance making process: investigating digital touch in the formation of creative movement and kinaesthetic awareness
… a heightened awareness of the moving body. The kinaesthetic awareness involved when wearing such a tool/aid became complicated by passive touch as the vibrations created through digital touch disrupted the perception of internal and external boundaries to the body. Consequently, the active …
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The role of analytical prestudy in the memorization and retention of piano music with subjects of varied aural/kinaesthetic ability
This study investigated the relationship of aural/kinaesthetic (A/K) ability, the ability to play by ear, to the time and number of repetitions needed for 16 subjects using four methods of prestudy to memorize and rememorize four compositions. Two of the methods involved studying the score before …
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Sensing materiality's rhetorical force: building a deeper understanding of the rhetorical entanglements of materiality, embodiment, and power
… materiality and an understanding of rhetoric as kinaesthetic. My first conceptual contribution, an expanded definition of rhetoric's materiality, describes rhetoric's materiality as the suasory, mercurial movements of matter-energy, with two distinct characteristics: (1) matter-energy moves in …
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The relationship between RFT performance and inter- and intra-modal matching tasks
… a type of cross modal matching task between the kinaesthetic modality and vision. In the present study lines and widths of solid objects instead of forms were used in order to facilitate measurement. An attempt was also made to construct a rod and frame test that is performed only in the …
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Body Opera: In Search of the Operatic in the Performance of the Body
… derived from Butoh, to achieve this transfer of kinaesthetic information. The research was undertaken in part through interviews with opera singers and close observation of opera singers in rehearsal and performance. This process also included the making of sketches of singers in movement, which …
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Sartorial Choreography: The Materiality and Performance of Clothes-Making Gestures
… rhythm, speed, sound and texture as well as kinaesthetic sensations that are generated by the distinctive hand gestures of the clothes-maker. This practice-based research explores clothes-making gestures as choreographic forms of expression in their own right. It examines the peculiar …
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Scordatura on the Classical Guitar: Implications for Practice and Performance
… has on established auditory, cognitive, kinaesthetic and visual processes. These aspects will be brought into more specific focus through four case studies: Lilith Guégmian’s Dans le Souffle du Temps, Bryan Johanson’s A Dog from Every Town, Gary Ryan’s Out of Clonmel and Richard …
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Choreographic assemblages : an archaeology of movement and space
… express the similar notions. The architecture of kinaesthetic (Labanotation) offers the opportunity to mend the rupture between the theorization of architecture and its actualization. It allows vast latitude of experimentation and makes possible to conceive a more corresponding architecture. This …
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A Study of Pupils at Risk of Exclusion and their Attitudes to School
… smaller class sizes and more interactive and kinaesthetic lessons. The study outlines and analyses, in detail, barriers which emerged from the findings and then uses these alongside potential enablers suggested by the pupils to make recommendations for future practice.
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A model kit : a system for constructing three-dimensional interactive graphic models
… imagery is perceptible to both the visual and kinaesthetic senses as one directly places and moves it in space with his hand. An electromagnetic six degree-of-freedom digitizer mounted on a small wooden "wand", with a pushbutton mounted in the handle, tracks the user's hand in space to allow …
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Piano performance : strategies for score memorisation
… with the four aspects of music memory, namely Kinaesthetic, Aural, Visual and Analytical Memories. However, these may not be enough in themselves to ensure freedom from momentary memory lapses on the stage. After a discussion of issues concerned with psychological memory and music cognitive …
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Athlete imagery ability and effective imagery use
… visual imagery, internal visual imagery, and kinaesthetic imagery ability. The Sport Imagery Ability Questionnaire (SIAQ) was developed and extensively validated in Chapter 4 to provide a more comprehensive measure of athlete imagery ability. Chapter 5 demonstrated the SIAQ’s predictive …
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The bones of the book: schematic structure and meaning made from books.
… ways do written, spatial, visual, tactile and kinaesthetic cues, linked to the metaphors tunnel-book, concertina-book and flag-book, facilitate reasoning about book texts? The argumentation is based on theory from the cognitive linguistic enterprise and assumes that meaning making is an …
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Dialectical Performance and Political Economy: Adapting the Brechtian Learning Play to Reimagine 21st Century Social Participation
… distinctive of performance studies such as kinaesthetic engagement and embodied cognition. 3) I reshape the evaluation criteria for arts-based interventions discussing political participation by reframing the nature of relations of dissent and contrast through a dialectical approach. 4) I …
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MUSICAL COMPOSITION FOCUSING ON THE QUALITY OF PRESENCE IN PERFORMANCE
… conceptions regarding presence, embodiment and kinaesthetic sensitivities. I explain how the body of compositions deals with various notions of listening: receptive listening and - in the chapter on the orchestral piece spun yam - listening as a sense of touch as well as listening in wonder. …
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Tailoring Digital Touch: An ethnography of designers' touch practices during garment prototyping and the potential for their digitisation
… revealing the significance of the felt, kinaesthetic awareness of the moving body to garment prototyping. Further demonstrating that designers relate felt histories of material entanglement with their moving bodies to their contemporary experience. Development of felt histories is thus …
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