neuronal representations of bimanual movements

... between rituals and representations and, in the process, critiques traditional models of grief Representations of Death makes use of the social psychological theory of social representations and ... social representations: of bad death 24, 140, 144, 145; of death 182, 188, 189–95; definition of 19, 20; of good death xv, 24, 140, 141, 142, 145, 146, 161, 191–5; functions of 20, 193; of loss ... notion of culture within his theory of social representations The present study is an original contribution to this current debate A significant strength of Moscovici’s theory of social representations

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:20

... of social psychology the study of culture and of society has been unfashionable for The study of death 19 years Without an understanding of, and sympathy for, culture, the study of ... Herzlich’s (1973) study of the social representations of health and illness among town and country folk, Chombart de Lauwe’s (1984) study of the social representations of childhood and Jodelet’s ... event Using the social psychological theory of social representations, I identified three existing representations of the ‘good death These representations work as powerful social norms,

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... presentation of H by simple deletion of all occurrences of a set of generators of N. The effective nature of the process in this case will be exemplified in Section 7. 3. A residually finite version of the ... presentation is a special case of Theorem 2.2 of [2] Our notation (S1 ) and (S2 ) agrees with that of [2]; the additional sets of. .. of relations (S3 ) and Zσ of [2] are empty in the ... Annals of Mathematics Grothendieck’s problems concerning profinite completions and representations of groups By Martin R. Bridson and Fritz J. Grunewald Annals of Mathematics,

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... abnegation of the 'otherness' of this foreign landscape—it is neutralised by the European envisioning and representation of it in terms of its sentimental effect on the viewer This strategy of visualisation ... object of equal height'.20 Therefore, the images that Baines painted to accompany these responses is exactly consonant with the depiction of such scenes of Sublime nature The representations of the ... self-professed descriptive ineptitude of the writers does not tally with the facts of the texts or the visual representations For just as the infinite has been embodied in the natural guise of the

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... is twofold First, in contrast with either time or frequency space representations, the Zak space representation of echo signals preserves the separateness of supports of distinct replicas of the ... and that for each algebraic line each of the L nonzero values of the FZT of a PPS can assume one of exactly N values (the Nth roots of unity) The number of PPSs can be slightly refined when a ... × KL array The Zak space realization of a DFT pair provides a complementary view Let XL be the FZT of x and YKL be the FZT of the DFT of x Write the DFT of x N −1 x(m) = eN (nm)x(n), n=0 ≤ m

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... sides of a flat face of G  . Proof. This is a corollary of Lemma 9. The notion of the pseudo–embedding may be extended to the representations of a graph on the sphere and to the proper toroidal representations. ... simplification of G and let F be a flat face of G  . We know that it is a subdivision of C 2 , and each edge of F belongs to one of the two sides of C 2 . Lemma 8. Let e be an edge of G  and let ... face of the induced embedding of G2 ∪ V2 which contains C1 and let... that the number of stable representations of a toroidal graph is bounded by the number of possible sets of

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 13:21

... b) = λ Thus one of the components in the decomposition of V as a direct sum of irreducible g-modules is of highest weight λ However,... case-by-case proof is at the end of this section ... columns of the form 1 3 1 2 u1 u5 u2 u4 u3 , in U , u2 counts the number of 2 in U , u3 counts the number of columns of the form 3 in U , u4 2 counts the number of columns of the form ... are the crucial facts needed in order to apply Theorem 4.1 of [DLP2] in the proof of Theorem 4.4 Proof of Lemma 3.2 Without loss of generality we may assume that chain is surjective Suppose

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... heat of vaporization of water, is the specific heat of air, p is the water, T is temperature, E is evaporation rate, C and D is vapor pressure deficit of the canopy air This simplification of the ... (figure 4) Arithmetic means of diurnal surface conductance are often used as representations of daily conductance (e.g [3]) However, it should be noted that the arithmetic mean of diurnal values may ... averages of diurnal values The use of stem sapflow measurements conjunction with meteorological measurements of evaporative demand has pro- in vided a method in which continuous estimates of canopy

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:20

... forefront of stroke rehabilitation. The Activities of Daily Living Exercise Robot (ADLER) was developed to improve carryover of gains after training by combining the benefits of Activities of Daily ... Page 3 of 14 (page number not for citation purposes) mum jerk model. We discuss implications of these find- ings for modelling functional movements and robot mediated support of these movements. ... functional movements generated during the completion of tasks such as eating and drinking. We compare these functional movements to those predicted by the mini- mum jerk model since this model is often

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:20

... variation movements Week number Number of movements Cattle, trade Cattle, pasture Pigs Reported movements of cattle and pigs per day of the weekFigure 6 Reported movements of cattle and pigs per day of ... Many of the cattle movements could be calves from dairy herds being sold to fattening Reported movements of pigs, by distanceFigure 4 Reported movements of pigs, by distance. Movements of Swedish ... northern parts of the Table 2: Movements of cattle and pigs by county Movements starting in county Cattle Pigs Number of movements Within county (%) To adjacent county (%) Number of movements Within

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22

... Sharif University of Technology) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY OF ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE 2012 ... out of 199) of the pairs. This is while 68.04% (66 out of 97) of these pairs also exhibited significant modulations as a function of visual saliency. We were also interested in the time course of ... NEURONAL CORRELATES OF PERCEPTUAL SALIENCE IN LOCAL FIELD POTENTIALS IN THE PRIMARY VISUAL CORTEX YASAMIN MOKRI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE 2012 NEURONAL CORRELATES OF PERCEPTUAL

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 17:53

... NEURONAL CORRELATES OF PERCEPTUAL SALIENCE IN SPIKE TRAINS FROM THE PRIMARY VISUAL CORTEX BONG JIT HON NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE 2012 NEURONAL CORRELATES OF PERCEPTUAL ... B.Eng.(Hons.), NUS A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY OF ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE 2012 Dedication To my family ... Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund. All the work shown in this dissertation was the result of collaboration between the lab ii of Dr. Yen Shih-Cheng at NUS and the lab of Dr. Charles

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 18:55

... (Germany) List of Contributors VIII Preface Each of us performs thousands of eye movements every day without being aware of how the brain controls them The oculomotor system is one of the best understood ... VI List of Contributors Prof Dr med U Büttner Department of Neurology Klinikum Grosshadern Marchioninistrasee 15 DE–81377 Munich (Germany) Prof Dr med Jean Büttner-Ennever Institute of Anatomy ... to the sensorimotor control of eye movements, discussing first properties of eye muscles, then their sensory receptors, the central connections of different types of extraocular motoneurons,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 03:20

... movements represent an example of the sensory guidance of movements that has contributed significantly to our understanding of some of the general principles underlying the sensory guidance of ... that the elicited eye movements are closely aligned with the direction of the offending canal With this proof that also in humans eye movements are produced in the plane of the stimulated SCC, ... Fig Electrical stimulation of a single SCC nerve induces eye movements roughly in the plane of that canal (shown for stimulation of the right posterior canal) (Courtesy of A Boehmer, Zürich.) Modern...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 03:20

... area The features of these three types of neurons are reminiscent of the neurons in the SC, from which some of the input of the NRTP is derived However, unlike movement fields of saccade neurons ... because of careful adjusting of saccade duration, realized by tuning the neuronal representation of saccade time offered by the posterior vermal population signal In order to induce any changes of ... changes in the metrics of evoked saccades, demonstrating that the intermediate layer of the SC contains a topographic map of saccade endpoints The location of the endpoint of evoked saccades coincides...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 03:20

... role of striate cortex in the guidance of eye movements in the monkey J Neurosci 1987;7:3040–3058 Maunsell JHR, Van Essen DC: Functional properties of neurons in middle temporal visual area of ... Involvement of the central thalamus in the control of smooth pursuit eye movements J Neurosci 2005;25:5866–5876 Ono S, Das VE, Economides JR, Mustari MJ: Modeling of smooth pursuit-related neuronal ... Raton, FL, CRC Press, 2000, pp 303–328 Ilg UJ, Hoffmann KP: Responses of neurons of the nucleus of the optic tract and the dorsal terminal nucleus of the accessory optic tract in the awake monkey...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 03:20

... tilt of the rotation axis of the covered eye during head oscillation about the naso-occipital axis [137] This ‘convergence’ of ocular rotation axes is the result of decreased force by the SO of ... maintenance of fixation This, in turn, leads to further Disconjugate Eye Movements 101 upward movement of the covered eye and, at the same time, to a reduction of the cyclovertical component of the ... our understanding of the supranuclear control of eyelid function Moreover, several lines of evidence indicate a strong interaction between the neural control of eyelid and eye movements Therefore,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 03:20

... Clinical Application of Lid Movements Blinks and the Initiation of Eye Movements Under certain circumstances, blinks might slow eye movements down, speed them up, or elicit specific eye movements Patients ... rather to changes of the activity of OPNs or to visual suppression [65] The activity of 50% of the OPNs is decreased during ongoing smooth pursuit [88] Electrical stimulation of the OPN area during ... component of the blink reflex [131] Cases of unilateral lid spasm may occur in conjunction with unilateral or hemifacial spasm The most common cause of hemifacial spasm is irritation of the seventh...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 03:20

... biomechanics of the eye Subsequently, models of the neural velocity-toposition integrator, which is common to all types of eye movements, are considered Finally, models of the various types of eye movements ... pathological eye movements often allows the topological diagnosis of the lesion causing the abnormalities Despite our extensive knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of eye movements, very little ... control of smooth pursuit eye movements J Neurosci 2005;25:5866–5876 95 Ono S, Das VE, Economides JR, Mustari MJ: Modeling of smooth pursuit-related neuronal responses in the DLPN and NRTP of the...

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