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Anderman, Elizabeth Quainton. "Visible sensations: Ekphrasis and illustration in Victorian sensation novels." Diss., Connect to online resource, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3239461.
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Shin, Yae Jin. "Possible sensations." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/82281.
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Thesis (S.M. in Art, Culture and Technology)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 56-57).
This thesis explores the sensory human experience through the study of facial expression and non-verbal vocal articulation in hopes of better understanding the range of modes of communications possible both interpersonally and between people and their environment. In contrast to the common presumption that language constitutes the easiest and most effective communicative medium, I argue that it is possible to interact with others and express oneself through alternate senses as well. My investigation of such communicative alternatives focuses particularly on facial expression and the phenomenon of muteness. The former is investigated as a space in which novel sensations are explored in literature and film. As an especially cogent example of filmic use of facial expression I address at length the role facial gestures play in the absence of vocal expression in Carl Dreyer's silent film classic, The Passion of Joan of Arc Constituting the latter focus, muteness is investigated through a historical survey of the development of the stock mute character following the advent of talkie-films. In stark contrast to the silent films that had preceded them, early talkies such as Howard Hawk's characteristic Hollywood screwball film His Girl Friday reveled in the novel freedom of vocal synchronization to create a trademark style of rapid dialogue. Within this development, I focus on the role of silent films in talkies and interrogate the relegation of filmic mutes to the role of sub-character. Moreover, I consider the expressive possibilities of films peopled solely with mute characters and the potential avenues for mutual comprehensibility within such a project, concentrating on how alternative sensory media might enable understanding. In conclusion, I analyze several of my own recent works that focus on either facial expression or the phenomenon of muteness, in keeping with the foregoing discussion of both categories. In the former category of images of the human face, I present two of my video works, The Camouflage (2012) and The Mutes (2012), explaining the creative process behind each project from conceptualization to final execution as well as how the literature and films reviewed in the first chapters informed both projects. Lastly, in the latter category of muteness, I discuss the discourse between sound and other sensory experiences by considering my public art work, You can say ANYTHING to me.
by Yae Jin Shin.
S.M.in Art, Culture and Technology
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Bain, David. "Sensation and representation : a study of intentionalist accounts of the bodily sensations." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a674fb16-6f86-4641-b794-fdec52001528.
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There are good reasons for wanting to adopt an intentionalist account of experiences generally, an account according to which having an experience is a matter of representing the world as being some way or other according to which, that is, such mental episodes have intrinsic, conceptual, representational content. Such an approach promises, for example, to provide a satisfying conception of experiences' subjectivity, their phenomenal character, and their crucial role in constituting reasons for our judgements about the world. It promises this, moreover, without incurring the difficulties that face the adverbialist and the friends of such items as qualia and "private objects". Still, even many of those who have been persuaded of that much are inclined to make an exception of the bodily sensations, since pains and the rest have traditionally been taken to be peculiarly "blank" instances of brute, non-conceptual feeling. In this study, I reject that tradition and argue that sensation experiences are indeed representational, and hence not in that respect exceptional. The idea that they are nevertheless distinctive in other ways vis-à-vis ordinary perceptual experiences has led intentionalists such as John McDowell to adopt an account of their content that is both mentalist and radically subjectivist: an account, in other words, that takes the items represented by such experiences to be mental and constitutively dependent on their being represented. To my mind, such subjectivism is both viciously circular like the parallel view of colours and at odds with the admirably intentionalist aspirations of these views. Hence I turn to consider objectivist versions of intentionalism, views that assimilate sensations to somatosensory perceptual experiences such as those that inform us of, for example, the position of our own limbs. Admittedly, these views not only risk losing the "interiority" of sensations, but I argue that they also cannot be combined with mentalism and that this generates considerable difficulties difficulties that have either been ignored or underestimated by those working with less demanding conceptions of content. Nonetheless, I make a number of preliminary moves to show how such difficulties might be dealt with, and how the objectivist can register even the distinctively "inner" character of sensations by, amongst other things, focussing on the peculiarities of somatosensory content. So the prospects for intentionalism about sensations are, I argue, good.
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Skehan, Daniel. "An investigation of sensation perception and illusory sensations of touch in functional somatisation." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.505464.
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Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS) can be defined as subjectively compelling physical symptoms that, despite appropriate medical examination, cannot be attributed to organic pathology. People with MUS have been associated with more ftmctional impairment, disability and health care utilisation than people with detined medical conditions (Jackson & Kroenke, 2008). Although current treatment of MUS has exhibited some success, the reported effect sizes have been small with a significant number showing no improvement (Kroenke & Swindle, 2000). These limitations illustrate the need to develop and refine theories of MUS in order to contribute to more effective treatment strategies.
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Reines, Maria Francisca Bar-On Dorit. "Sensations, concepts and understanding." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,118.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006.Title from electronic title page (viewed Oct. 10, 2007). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the department of Philosophy." Discipline: Philosophy; Department/School: Philosophy.
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GALEOU, MARIA. "La sensation thermique de l'homme dans son habitat : des grandeurs physiques et physiologiques aux sensations." Toulouse 3, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991TOU30158.
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En plus des caracteristiques thermiques de l'ambiance, la modelisation actuelle des batiments doit prendre en compte l'occupant, non seulement dans ses reactions physiologiques, mais aussi dans ses reponses sensorielles a son environnement thermique. Ceci permettra, notamment, une gestion energetique optimisee, basee sur la perception de l'ambiance et non sur l'ambiance elle-meme. Le logiciel presente dans ce travail (trim) essaie de repondre a cette necessite: il donne la sensation thermique globale ou locale d'un individu dans un environnement bati. L'idee de base de ce logiciel est l'exploitation des relations, trouvees dans la bibliographie, entre les variables physiques, caracterisant l'ambiance et physiologiques caracterisant l'individu et les jugements sensoriels, exprimes par celui-ci. Ceci a necessite une recherche bibliographique exhaustive, afin d'organiser des tableaux de valeurs de ces variables, qui correspondent aux sensations thermiques, exprimees dans une echelle allant de 3 tres froid a +3 tres chaud. Trim compare la valeur d'entree des variables physiques et physiologiques a ces tableaux de reference, tout en prenant en consideration les couplages eventuels entre les diverses variables. Il peut fonctionner comme programme independant ou commune un processeur du logiciel general de batiment trnsys. Les resultats de validation par des experiences (non utilisees pour l'edition des tableaux de reference) sont satisfaisants. Ce logiciel, en plus de la systematisation d'un nombre tres important d'informations bibliographiques, permet la prediction detaillee des reponses thermosensorielles de l'homme, surtout au niveau local (main, tete, etc. ). Il constitue un outil de travail interessant pour la determination des sensations thermiques de l'individu, et unique lorsque la connaissance des sensations locales est necessaire
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Morand, de Jouffrey Pauline. "Recherche de sensations et activation : étude des relations entre recherche de sensations et troubles de l'humeur." Paris 7, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA07B094.
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Després, Aurore. "Travail des sensations dans la pratique de la danse contemporaine : logique du geste esthétique." Paris 8, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA081454.
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Cette etude se penche sur quelques modes contemporains de production choregraphique qui accordent une place cruciale a l'exploration des ressources du "sentir" dans leurs pratiques : ceux de la choregraphe francaise odile duboc, ceux de la choregraphe americaine "post-moderne" trisha brown et ceux de la danse contact improvisation (courant choregraphique initie par steve paxton, dans cette meme mouvance post-moderne americaine). La, la danse est moins basee sur l'apprentissage ou la reproduction de "mouvements" comme on pourrait s'y attendre que sur l'apprentissage d'une aptitude a la "perception" ; les "ateliers" de danse deviennent de veritables laboratoires de recherche ou predominent le "travail des sensations" et le "travail des sens". Les danseurs sollicitent leurs capacites sensorielles, visuelles, tactiles, auditives et meme, dans certaines pratiques, olfacto-gustatives et font emerger de ces sensations, des etats de corps comme des mouvements. Aussi, si les danseurs, explorateurs, par essence, du mouvement se font les explorateurs du sentir, c'est que fondamentalement, une relation profonde voire une coincidence tend a s'etablir entre la sensation et le mouvement. . . Relation remettant completement en cause une certaine conception commune de la "receptivite" par les sens comme de "l'activite". En s'inventant avant tout par la "sensation du mouvement, par la "sensation de poids", par le "con-sentir" a la gravite, par un veritable "consensus", ces travaux choregraphiques font advenir une "kinesthesie" rimant avec une complete "esthesie". . . Ce qui est enjeu est donc la production d'un geste profondement "esthetique" au sens etymologique du mot (aisthesis=sensation), geste "aisthetique" redonnant aux sens et a la matiere "corps" leurs puissances creatrices de realite, et faisant emerger un mode de corporeite autre comme une autre facon "d'etre ensemble", une autre pensee du corps comme une autre pensee tout courtThis work deals with some contemporary forms of choregraphic expressions which give a major importance to the exploration of the possibilities of "feeling" in their works : those of the french choreographer odile duboc, the american post-modem choreographer trisha brown and those of the dance contact improvisation ( a choreographic trend initiated by steve paxton, in the same american post-modern movement). For these artists, dance is less based on the learning or the imitation of movements, as one may imagine, but it is more the search for an ability of "sensorial reception"; dance workshops tend to become real research laboratories in which both the "work on sensations" and the "work on senses" prevail. Dancers work on sense, vision, touch and hearing and even, in some workshops, on taste and smell. These sensations lead them to both states of body and movements. Therefore, we may assert that dancers, as natural explorers of the movements, can become explorers of the sensitivity or sensation, because a deep relationship if not a coincidence tends to exist between sensation and movement. . . This relationship questions a particular widespread opinion of both the "reception" and the "action". These choreographic works - which are based above all on the "sensation of the movement", on the " sensation of the weight", on the "con-sensus" with gravity - give birth to a "kinesthesy" rhyming with a full "esthesy". . . What is at stake is the production of a deeply esthetic gesture - "esthetic" being used in its ethymological meaning (aisthesis= sensation), an "aesthetic" gesture giving back their own abilities of creating a reality to both the senses and the body as a material. This gesture gives birth to a different form of "bodyness" and a different way of being together, another way of thinking the body as well as another way of thinking altogether
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Haynes, Martin. "The subjectivity of secondary qualities and sensations." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.240863.
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Lively, Suzanne. "Misinterpretation of Ambiguous Bodily Sensations and Situational Phobias." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.506927.
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Min, Hyunjun. "Kim Ki-duk and the cinema of sensations." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/8925.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.Thesis research directed by: Dept. of English. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Thébault, Guillaume. "Influence des sensations corporelles dans l’anticipation de l’action." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019MON30100.
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Le travail de thèse que nous avons réalisé se proposait d’étudier l’anticipation des effets reliés au corps. La théorie idéomotrice de James (1890) qui soutient que c’est l’idée du mouvement qui déclenche une action constitue le sous bassement théorique de cette thèse. Dans le prolongement des rares travaux portant sur l’anticipation des effets reliés au corps, nous avons émis l’hypothèse que les effets tactiles et proprioceptifs étaient anticipés en fonction de la manière dont était réalisée l’action. Plus précisément, nous avons étudié dans une première expérience l’effet d’une contingence d’intensité entre une réponse et un effet tactile; une seconde expérience a porté sur le phénomène d’atténuation proprioceptive à partir d’un effet tactile; une troisième expérience a mis l’emphase sur l’anticipation de la fluence motrice, comprise comme un effet proprioceptif fournit au cours du mouvement. Ces expériences ont été enrichies de deux autres études portant sur (1)l’anticipation d’un effet tactile concomitant avec l’action et (2) le jugement perceptif d’un effet tactile. Enfin, nous avons entrepris d’appliquer ces recherches dans le développement de l’enfant et dans le domaine de la déficience motrice suite à une lésion cérébrale. Pris ensemble, les données empiriques de ces travaux mettent en lumière le rôle des effets reliés au corps dans l’anticipation de l’action. Ces résultats sont discutés au regard des théories récentes sur la prédiction des effets de l’action d’où émerge la notion de temporalité et fournissent une contribution supplémentaire à l’idée motrice de James. En outre, elles offrent un cadre théorique pertinent afin d’étudier les effets reliés au corps dans le champ de la lésion cérébrale. Enfin, en nous appuyant sur les données obtenues ainsi que sur leur discussion en termes de prédiction, nous proposons des perspectives de recherche auprès de personnes présentant une déficience motrice, des troubles d’utilisation des objets ou des enfants ayant eu un accident vasculaire cérébral artériel néonatalThe following thesis proposes to study the anticipation of body-related effects. Our work is based on the ideo-motor theory (James, 1890) in which the idea of movement triggers an action. Following the few studies on the anticipation of body-related effects, we hypothesized that tactile and proprioceptive effects were anticipated depending on how the action was performed. More precisely, we have studied in a first experiment the effect of a contingency of intensity between a response and a tactile effect; a second experiment focused on the phenomenon of proprioceptive attenuation from a tactile effect; a third experiment emphasized the anticipation of motor fluency, understood as a proprioceptive effect provided by movement. These experiments were enriched by two other studies on (1) the anticipation of a tactile effect during an action and (2) the perceptive judgment of a tactile effect. Finally, we have extended these studies into a child developmental perspective and in the field of motor impairment following brain injury. Taken together, the empirical evidence of this work highlights the role of body-related effects in anticipating an action. These results are discussed in light of recent theories on the prediction of effects of action, which rests on the notion of temporality. They provide an additional contribution of ideomotor action. In addition, they provide a relevant theoretical framework for studying body-related effects in the field of brain injury. Finally, based on our empirical data and their discussion in terms of prediction, we propose research perspectives in motor impairment, tool use disorders or children with a neonatal arterial ischemic stroke
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Kroeze, Sabine. "On the origin of bodily sensations in panic disorder." Maastricht : Maastricht : Universiteit Maastricht ; University Library, Maastricht University [Host], 1999. http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=8631.
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Mengaptche, lowe Jessica. "Sensations et perceptions visuelles et tactiles de matériaux texturés." Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSEM031/document.
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Les propriétés sensorielles des matériaux constituent un élément important de la valeur perçue. L’enjeu est de mettre en relation 3 espaces de caractérisation des matériaux : un espace physique décrit par des données mesurables par des instruments, un espace psychophysique décrit par des données mesurables par l’appareil perceptif humain, un espace sémantique qui traduit une perception plus globale du matériau. Des méthodes de l’analyse sensorielle sont utilisées pour collecter des données de perception visuelle, tactile et visio-tactile. En parallèle, la sensation tactile est étudiée plus en détail à l’aide d’instruments de tribologie tactile. Les différents jeux d’échantillons sélectionnés permettent d’explorer les 3 espaces de caractérisation. L’analyse des vibrations induites par le contact entre le doigt et des textures artificielles, périodiques et isotropes, montre que la valeur efficace du signal d’accélération ainsi que le coefficient de frottement sont cohérents avec les résultats des tests de perception tactile. En étudiant des archétypes du bois, il apparaît que les échantillons sont différenciés selon deux critères principaux : la rugosité et l’hétérogénéité. Ce dernier faisant référence à la présence ou non de singularités caractéristiques du bois. Par ailleurs, l’analyse des vibrations induites est cohérente avec les résultats des tests de perception tactile. Enfin, l’étude d’un même ensemble de textures présentées sous forme d’un disque de matière et sous forme d’un objet identifié a permis de montrer que, contrairement aux textures artificielles, les textures naturelles ou identifiables sont perçues de manière similaire dans les deux contextes de présentationThe sensory properties of material provide leverage of perceived value. The challenge is to relate 3 spaces of material characterization: a physical space describe by measurable data using instruments, a psychophysical space describes by measurable data collected with the human perceptive system, and a semantical space which represent a more global perception of the material. Sensory evaluation methods are used to collect data of visual, tactile and visio-tactile perception. In parallel, the tactile sensation is studied more in detail using tribo-tactile instruments. The different sets of samples allow the exploration of the 3 characterization spaces. The analysis of friction induced vibrations when the finger is scanning periodic and isotropic surfaces reveal that the root mean square value of the acceleration spectra as well as the friction coefficient are coherent with the tactile perception test results. The study of wood archetype texture shows that samples discrimination is based on two main criteria: the roughness and the heterogeneousness, the latter referring to the presence or not of characteristic peculiarities of the wood. Besides, the analysis of friction induced vibrations is also coherent with the results of the tactile perception test. Finally, the study of same set of textures presented in the form of piece of material and in the form of an identified object shows that, contrary to the artificial textures, the natural or familiar textures are perceived in a similar way in both contexts of presentation
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Lambert, Pamela Faye. "Acting in Shakespeare: Singular sensations in Shakespeare and song." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1443.
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The purpose of this project was to determine if it was possible to take Shakespeare's text and, preserving the language, present it in a way which would make it more accessible to a modern audience. It was also important to maintain the appropriate acting style and technique that distinguishes classical acting.
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Kleiner, Jimmy. "International Sensations : Representationen av nationalitet i World Wrestling Entertainment." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, JMK, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-131245.
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Denna uppsats intresserar sig för professional wrestling och då specifikt bolaget World Wrestling Entertainment, WWE. Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur nationalitet representeras i World Wrestling Entertainments produkt. Uppsatsens teoretiska ramverk består utav tre olika författare. Dessa tre är Michael Billig, Stuart Hall och Roland Barthes. Från Michael Billig används begreppen 'hot and banal nationalism' för att definiera nationalism. Från Stuart Hall hämtas teorier om 'representation', vad det är och hur det fungerar samt olika perspektiv på varför det är intressant att studera 'olikhet'. Slutligen använder sig uppsatsen utav Roland Barthes artikel Le monde où l'on catche, the World of Wrestling i den engelska översättningen, som analyserar wrestling på ett semiotiskt vis. Många av de teorier som Barthes presenterar i denna artikel är relevanta än idag trots att han skrev artikeln på 1950-talet. Uppsatsens frågeställning kommer att undersökas genom en multimodal analys. En multimodal analys lämpar sig väl för ett så visuellt fenomen som wrestling. Det möjliggör även för studier av de rent textuella elementen i programmen och inte bara det visuella. Materialet består utav de inledande videomontagen från två olika wrestlingmatcher. Båda matcherna är hämtade från WWEs största årliga pay-per-view Wrestlemania som gått av stapeln varje år sedan år 1985. Den ena matchen är hämtad från Wrestlemania 29 år 2013 och den andra är hämtad från Wrestlemania 31 år 2015. Båda matcherna inkluderar icke-amerikanska karaktärer. Den första matchen ser amerikanen Jack Swagger möta mexikanen Alberto Del Rio och den andra matchen ser amerikanen John Cena möta den ryske Rusev. Efter analysen kunde slutsatsen dras att vad gällde de matcher som analyserats framställdes de ickeamerikanska karaktärerna varken positivt eller negativt. Vad analysen lyckades komma fram till var att de icke-amerikanska karaktärerna var där för att reproducera en bild av den amerikanska nationella identiteten och att de icke-amerikanska karaktärernas nationaliteter egentligen inte var relevanta. Det relevanta var det faktum att de var just icke-amerikaner. Deras faktiska nationaliteter behandlades inte i någon större utsträckning i materialet. Materialet verkade mest kretsa kring USA och dess nationella identitet.
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Day, Jonathan. "Novel sensations : modernist fiction and the problem of qualia." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5079ce4a-028f-40dc-99d5-4237779bc203.
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This thesis examines representations of sensation within modernist novels alongside contemporary philosophical debates over the concept of qualia. Concentrating on the work of Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Percy Wyndham Lewis, and Samuel Beckett, it confronts a longstanding critical tradition that has tended to obscure or misunderstand the implications of arguments made by philosophers of mind in relation to literary descriptions of sensation. That the mind is a thing, and that modernist narrative fiction is particularly successful at representing that thing, has become a critical commonplace. In this thesis I argue that interpretations of modernism’s supposed ‘inward turn’ are founded on a mistaken notion of ‘cognitive realism’, a critical position endorsing the idea that it is both possible and desirable to describe the mind (conceived of as a stable and unchanging object) without loss through the development and judicial deployment of new literary techniques. The myth of the inward turn in its various incarnations – the psychologised modernism described by many literary critics in the 50s and 60s, and the neuromodernism subscribed to by many contemporary critics – is, I argue, largely the result of a set of inter-linked misconceptions which attend the cognitive realist paradigm. The notion of qualia is central to my thesis. Defined as the ineffable, irreducible, and subjective properties of conscious experience, qualia emerge concomitantly with modernism, developing out of G. E. Moore’s definition of ‘sense-data’ and Bertrand Russell’s category of ‘sensibilia’. Though still disputed within contemporary philosophy, qualia create huge problems for materialist theories of consciousness, threatening to undermine critical approaches to literature which contend that formal literary strategies can ever hope to transcend the limitations of symbolic language in conveying sensation. The ‘problem’ of qualia referred to in this thesis, therefore, is the problem the concept poses for symbolic descriptions (either mathematic, psychological, or literary) of mental states, especially when those descriptions make special claims (or are interpreted as making special claims) of mimetic veracity. The problem emerged within philosophy at precisely the point at which the representative claims of literature came under direct attack. This thesis argues, therefore, that it is a profoundly literary problem, and that the absence of ‘sensation’ from the written is simply a manifestation of the inherent limitations of language. A critical tendency to re-insert sensory experience into the process of reading – through phenomenological interpretations of modernism, or in contemporary ‘neuroaesthetic’ approaches to literature – thus point to a general anxiety that manifests itself most forcefully in relation to modernist fiction’s ability to ‘write’ sensation. This thesis employs the concept of qualia as a way of contextualising narratives of the mind – philosophical, literary and scientific – from the period. In doing so it seeks to historicise modernism’s ‘crisis of the senses’; locating this argument in a broader theoretical space and questioning the relevance (and novelty) of contemporary approaches to reading the senses in modernism.
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Lugaz, Olivia. "Convergence des sensations gustatives et somesthésiques : cas particulier des acides." Paris 11, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA112294.
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Notre étude a permis d'identifier certains facteurs de la perception du goût acide. Ceux-ci se rangent en deux grandes catégories: 1. Les facteurs liés au sujet: débit salivaire et interactions fonctionnelles entre le nerf trijumeau lingual (V) et la corde du tympan (CT). 2. Les facteurs liés au stimulus: pH et caractère hydrophobe de la molécule acide non-dissociée. Nous avons évalué l'incidence de ces facteurs en recoupant des expérimentations psychophysiques et électrophysiologiques. Nos observations sont les suivantes. La molécule acide non-dissociée est un véhicule efficace des protons qui permet la stimulation des récepteurs intra-épithéliaux du nerf trijumeau, et ce d'autant plus que l'acide est hydrophobe. Les sujets à fort débit salivaire (HF) sont plus sensibles aux acides faibles que les sujets à faible débit salivaire (LF), et plus particulièrement sensibles aux acides hydrophobes. Contrairement aux sujets HF, les sujets LF, moins sensibles aux acides hydrophobes, ne répondent pas à une stimulation acide par une sécrétion supplémentaire de salive. Les sujets HF seraient donc plus sensibles aux acides grâce à un système trigéminal plus accessible aux acides hydrophobes dont l'effet produirait la sécrétion salivaire. L'étude montre également la modulation des réponses du nerf gustatif par l'activité du trijumeau (désensibilisation par les acides; effet de la capsaïcine, latences plus longues sur la CT que sur le V; modulation des réponses et de l'activité de base lors de la section des nerfs)This study showed that saliva secretion was not enhanced in low saliva flow rate subjects (LF) by an acid stimulation contrary to high saliva flow rate subjects (HF). Recorded Time-intensity profiles showed that HF perceived a higher intensity for acid solutions than LF whereas their pH measured on the tongue were less acid than those of LF. Thus, HF are more sensitive to acids, but they are also relatively more sensitive to hydrophobic than hydrophilic acids compared to LF. Nerve recordings showed that the hydrophobicity of an acid may overcome the concentration of potentially free protons to stimulate the trigeminal (V) free nerve endings, located deep in the lingual epithelium. All these results suggest that HF exhibit a higher sensitivity of the V than LF do. Semantic study of the acid perception showed that some descriptors may be specific of the chorda tympani nerve (taste nerve, CT) and others of the V. Nerve recordings showed that CT responses decreased with repeated acid stimulations, suggesting that the V needs to be activated to modulate the CT activity. Furthermore, CT responses to tastants were modulated by capsaicin, a trigeminal stimulus, only if it elicited a response on either CT/V or both. Finally, CT secondary responses began later than the secondary responses of the V, suggesting that the activity of the V may drive the CT activity. Sectioning the nerves led to an additional decrease of the nerve responses and to a variation of the basal activity on the distal cut end, this phenomenon was never observed when nerves remained intact. Altogether, these observations show how functional interactions help to constitute the polymodal "taste" sensation
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Lafollie, Delphine. "Recherche de sensations et autorégulation dans les sports à risque." Paris 11, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA112327.
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Le developpement des loisirs favorise une pratique accrue des sports de plein air. Ces derniers peuvent comporter des risques non negligeables, posant des problemes de sante publique. Comprendre le besoin de sensations des pratiquants permet de mieux apprehender leur prise de risque, et de reperer les personnalites les plus susceptibles de se mettre en danger. Cette these met en evidence le role de la recherche de sensations dans des processus d'autoregulation, et les traits de personnalite qui sous-tendent ce lien. L'autoregulation a ete appreciee a travers la "fuite de la conscience de soi " et la "compensation". Quatre etudes permettent d'evaluer les liens entre certains traits de personnalite, la recherche de sensations, l'autoregulation, les sports pratiques et la prise de risque : (1) la fuite dans les sports a sensations fortes et la co-occurrence des conduites a risque ; (2) la personnalite des fuyeurs et compensateurs ; (3) la fuite et la compensation dans l'alpinisme et les sports de glisse ; (4) le sur-risque des fuyeurs. Un groupe de sujets imprudents, caracterise par une fuite, une extraversion, une impulsivite et une tendance alexithymique, est mis en evidence. Ces individus rechercheraient des sensations facilement accessibles et polymorphes dans la desinhibition ou la pratique de sports porteurs de sensations kinesthesiques surtout (sport de glisse). Leur difficulte a mentaliser leurs emotions expliquerait cette strategie d'autoregulation dans la recherche d'eprouves positifs corporels. A l'inverse, les amateurs de sports d'aventure, comme l'alpinisme, sont plus equilibres et plus prudents, la plupart etant surtout a la recherche d'une valorisation de soiLeisure expansion supports an increasing practice of outdoor activities. These may induce serious risks, leading to public health problems. Understanding the need for sensations allows for a better awareness of risk taking and an identification of personalities likely to endanger themselves. The goal of this thesis is to show the role of sensation-seeking in the self-regulatory processes and the personality traits involved in this relation. Risky sports athletes “escape from self-awareness” and “compensation” processes was the starting point of an investigation in self-regulation. After the french validation of a questionnaire measuring these two processes, four studies evaluate the links between certain personality traits, sensation seeking, self-regulation, sports practised and risk-taking: (1) escapism in risky sports and the multiplication of risky behaviours ; (2) “escapists” and “compensatory persons” personality ; (3) escapism and compensation in mountaineering and snowboarding or surfing activities (4) increased risk taken by “escapists”. A group of careless individuals characterized by escapism, extroversion, impulsivity and alexithymia is identified. These “escapists” may seek various, easily accessible sensations allegedly found in disinhibition or in risky sports. Their difficulty to identify their feelings might explain this self-regulatory process through the seeking of pleasant physical sensations. On the other hand, sportsmen who like adventure, such as mountaineering, are more careful and well-balanced, and some of them actually want to enhance and build up their personality
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Boushell, Audrey. "Comparing Generic Descriptive Analysis and Temporal Dominance of Sensations of Milk and Dark Chocolates and Effect of Training in Temporal Dominance of Sensations of Chocolates." Thesis, University of California, Davis, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1585048.
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Temporal Dominance of Sensations (TDS) is a sensory analysis method that measures the order and time that few key attributes are dominant throughout consumption of a product. Dominant attributes are those that catch the attention at a given moment, and are not necessarily related to intensity. A panel of 15 judges was trained first in Generic Descriptive Analysis (GDA) and then in TDS. This panel assessed 8 Guittard chocolates varying in amounts of cocoa solids, sugar, and fat. Both methods produced similar results. Samples were predominantly separated as milk chocolates and non-milk chocolates. Non-milk chocolates were sorted by attributes associated with cocoa and sugar content. The TDS data complemented the GDA data by providing additional information on how key attributes changed over time. A group of 98 untrained consumers then performed the same TDS procedure with the same chocolate samples. Both groups produced similar results for sample separation and sorting, but panelist data was superior. Panelists were better able to capture sensory changes over time and had more accurate and consistent understanding of certain attributes.
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Minett, M. S. "The role of sensory and sympathetic neurons in distinct pain sensations." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2013. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1421016/.
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Voltage-gated sodium channels are crucial determinants of neuronal excitability. Human genetic mutations show that Nav1.7 is critically important for normal pain processing. Here I show that Nav1.7 expression in different subsets of mouse sensory and sympathetic neurons underlies distinct types of pain sensation. Deleting Nav1.7 in all sensory neurons abolishes mechanical pain, inflammatory pain and reflex withdrawal responses to noxious heat. In contrast, heat-evoked pain is retained when Nav1.7 is deleted specifically in Nav1.8-positive nociceptors. Surprisingly, responses to the hotplate test were unaffected by deleting Nav1.7 in all sensory neurons. However, deleting Nav1.7 in both sensory and sympathetic neurons abolishes these pain sensations and recapitulates the pain-free phenotype seen in humans with Nav1.7 loss-of-function mutations. Previously, Nav1.3, 1.7, 1.8 & 1.9 have all been implicated in neuropathic pain through a plethora of different experimental approaches. Here I show that Nav1.3, 1.7, 1.8 & 1.9 have modality and pathology specific roles. Deleting Nav1.3 or 1.7 in all sensory neurons inhibits both cold and mechanical allodynia specifically following chronic constriction injury. While deleting Nav1.8 or 1.9 only inhibits cold but not mechanical allodynia. Importantly, deleting Nav1.7 in adult mice using AdvillCreERT2 reverses CCI mediated pain, thereby further validating Nav1.7 as a viable analgesic drug target. However, deleting the expression of any of these VGSCs in sensory neurons alone does not attenuate L5 spinal nerve transection induced pain. Instead I show that deleting Nav1.7 expression in sympathetic neurons inhibits SNT pain, as well as sympathetic sprouting into the DRG. Surprisingly, pain induced by the chemotherapeutic agent oxaliplatin does not require the presence of Nav1.7, or the ‘classical’ Nav1.8-positive nociceptors. This demonstrates that identical behavioural outcomes in different neuropathic pain models involve distinct molecular and physiological mechanisms. Rational analgesic drug therapy therefore requires patient stratification in terms of mechanisms, not just phenotype.
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Hatter, Janine Elizabeth. "Brief sensations : a critical study of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's short fiction." Thesis, University of Hull, 2012. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:16508.
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In recent decades, there has been an upsurge in critical attention on the life and oeuvre of Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Most of the critical output, however, relates to Braddon’s sensation novels Lady Audley’s Secret (1861) and Aurora Floyd (1862) (with a minority on her domestic novels and plays), and focuses on Braddon’s representation of a woman’s position in nineteenth-century society. This thesis is therefore the first extended piece to explore her short fiction – which includes short stories, edited collections and novellas – in detail and so contributes significantly to our understanding of Braddon’s life and oeuvre. The thesis begins with an exploration of Braddon’s multiple selves and how she (re)constructs her image throughout her life, and proceeds by an examination of short fiction’s critical position in both contemporary and modern discourse. Following this each chapter is dedicated to a separate subgenre of her short fiction – that of theatrical, supernatural, crime, domestic and children’s literature – and how each of these literary subgenres is another constructed performance, like her ‘multiple selves’. All of these chapters position Braddon and her writing within her contemporary Victorian context, whilst also examining how her contributions developed each of the subgenres considered. This is achieved by a comparison of Braddon’s short fiction with that of other authors of the period, thus our understanding of how Braddon impacted on the larger literary marketplace and influenced other writers will be examined. Furthermore, her short stories will be positioned in relation to her oeuvre as a whole, demonstrating that she did not consider the short story as inferior to the novel, which illuminates our knowledge of the hitherto marginalised genre of the Victorian short story.
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Lyons, Lisa Lynn. "A performance in musical theatre: Singular sensations in Shakespeare and song." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1999. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1712.
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Schmidt, Matthieu. "Substrats neurophysiologiques des interactions patient- ventilateur et des sensations respiratoires correspondantes." Thesis, Paris 6, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA066487/document.
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En ventilation assistée, l’inadéquation entre l’activité des muscles respiratoires du patient et l’assistance délivrée par le ventilateur se traduit par la survenue d’une dysharmonie patient-ventilateur potentiellement associée avec la survenue d’asynchronies patient-ventilateur et d’une dyspnée. Minimiser cette dysharmonie est un objectif majeur de la ventilation assistée. Le Neuro Asservissement de la Ventilation Assistée (NAVA) et la Ventilation Assistée Proportionnelle (PAV) sont deux nouveaux modes qui pourraient améliorer l’harmonie patient-ventilateur. Nous avons montré que, de façon similaire, le NAVA et la PAV diminuent le nombre d’asynchronie patient-ventilateur, préviennent la surdistension pulmonaire, restaurent la variabilité cycle à cycle du comportement ventilatoire et améliorent l’équilibre charge-capacité et le couplage neuromécanique. De plus, l’utilisation du mode NAVA en ventilation non invasive pourrait également permettre d’améliorer la synchronisation patient-ventilateur. Nous avons également montré aux cours de différents travaux sur la dyspnée en ventilation mécanique que celle ci était fréquente mais néanmoins difficile à identifier, en particulier chez les patients non communicants. L’EMG de surface des muscles inspiratoires extra-diaphragmatiques pourrait constituer un outil simple et objectif pouvant permettre au clinicien de diagnostiquer une dyspnée en ventilation mécanique et optimiser les réglages du ventilateur dans le but de minimiser la dysharmonie patient-ventilateur. Ces données permettent de progresser vers une meilleure connaissance de la dysharmonie patient- ventilateur. L’impact clinique de l’utilisation des modes proportionnels et d’une détection précoce de la dyspnée doit maintenant être évalué par des essais cliniquesVentilatory support must be tailored to the load capacity balance of the respiratory system to avoid patient-ventilator dysharmony as it may lead to patient-ventilator asynchronies and dyspnea. Minimizing this dysharmony is crucial. Neurally Ventilatory Assist Ventilation (NAVA) and Proportional Assist Ventilation (PAV) modes may improve patient-ventilator interaction. We showed in this work that PAV and NAVA both prevents overdistension, restores breath by breath variability of the breathing pattern and improves neuromechanical coupling and patient- ventilator asynchrony in fairly similar ways compared to pressure support ventilation. In addition the use of NAVA with non-invasive ventilation may also improve patient-ventilator interaction. We also demonstrated that dyspnea is a frequent issue in mechanically ventilated ICU patients and it can be difficult to assess when the patient is unable to report it. Surface electromyograms of extradiaphragmatic inspiratory muscles provides a simple, reliable and non-invasive indicator of respiratory muscle loading/unloading in mechanically ventilated patients. Because this EMG activity is strongly correlated to the intensity of dyspnea, it could be used as a surrogate of respiratory sensations in mechanically ventilated patients, and might, therefore, provide a monitoring tool in patients in whom detection and quantification of dyspnea is complex if not impossible. These data provide a better understanding of patient-ventilator dysharmony. Further studies are needed to evaluate the possible clinical benefits of NAVA and PAV on clinical outcomes and the impact of an early detection of dyspnea in mechanical ventilation
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Piquemal, Ève. "Le trait de recherche de sensations évalué chez des sujets dépendant des opiacés et chez des sujets pratiquant de sport à risque : une étude transversale." Bordeaux 2, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998BOR23084.
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Hanula, Ghislain. "Transformations actuelles des loisirs sportifs : Extension des pratiques adolescentes et apparition d'une offre hybride de loisirs." Thesis, Aix-Marseille 2, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011AIX22084.
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Notre étude s’est passée en deux temps: une partie quantitative dont le souci a été de réaliser un constat statistique sur la nature et le sens de la participation au loisir sportif d’un échantillon large d’individus de l’académie d’Aix-Marseille. Une partie qualitative où une approche statistique et ethnographique a été réalisée à partir d’une activité de loisir caractéristique des pratiques hybrides récemment apparues dans le secteur marchand du loisir: les parcs aventure. Nous définissons les pratiques hybrides comme des activités développées par le secteur marchand se situant entre une offre instituée classique et la pratique libre. En basant leurs arguments de séduction sur la vente d’un espace naturel sécurisé et domestiqué où les sensations et l’expérience partagée sont mises en avant, le secteur des pratiques hybrides connaît un engouement de plus en plus important. Force est de constater que l’offre proposée dans cette activité est en phase avec les motifs les plus avancées par l’échantillon de sportifs interrogés lors de notre enquête quantitative. L’enquête qualitative sur les motifs qui poussent les individus à fréquenter les pratiques hybrides confirme la place dominante des valeurs de sociabilité et de jeu aux limites dans ce loisir sportif. Les observations outillées et l’analyse des discours des participants permettent de mettre à jour la suprématie d’une expérience combinant sensations, défi et partage. Cette recherche d’expérience aux multiples facettes nous semble en rupture avec les modèles sportifs traditionnels. Ces derniers ont souvent des significations plus univoques, plus tranchées. Axés principalement sur la performance, les repères fédéraux peuvent paraître en décalage avec ce qui motive les individus à pratiquer une activité physique et sportive. Ainsi, à la lumière de nos résultats, il est cohérent de constater une baisse du taux de pratique instituée. Cette baisse serait à interpréter comme un signal de décalage entre l’offre des uns et la recherche des autres. Si les motifs dominants les plus mis en avant se basent sur une recherche combinant sociabilité, performance et expérience émotionnelle, il est normal de voir régresser quantitativement le nombre d’adhérents aux structures proposant une offre à la signification univoqueOur study happened in two stages: a quantitative part was to make a statistical statement about the nature and meaning of participation in leisure sports of a large sample of individuals from the Aix –Marseille’s district. A qualitatively or a statistical approach and ethnographic was made from a leisure activity characteristic of hybrid practices recently appeared in the market sector of leisure: adventure parks. We define hybrid as the practical activities developed by the commercial sector ranging from formal sport and informal sport. Basing their arguments on the sale of seduction of a natural area where domesticated and secure feeling and shared experience are put forward, the sector is experiencing a practical hybrid craze increasingly important. It is clear that the offer in this activity is consistent with the reasons advanced by the sample of athletes surveyed in our quantitative survey. The qualitative survey on the reasons that motivate people to attend practices hybrids confirms the dominant values of sociability and play limits in this recreational sport. Equipped observations and analysis of discourse allows participants to update the supremacy of an experiment combining sensations, challenge and sharing. This research experience with many facets seems at odds with the traditional sports models. These meanings are often more unequivocal, more trenches. Focused primarily on performance, benchmarks may seem Federal sync with what motivates people to engage in physical activity and sports. Thus, in light of our results, it is consistent to find a lower rate of established practice. This decrease is interpreted as a signal of mismatch between supplies of both the research of others. If the most dominant reasons put forward are based on research combining social skills, performance and emotional experience, it is normal to see decline quantitatively the membership structures to offering a single meaning
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Kern, Delphine. "Exploration psychophysique et neuropharmacologique des sensations paradoxales provoquées par une grille thermique." Paris 6, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA066321.
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Nous avons étudié sur le plan psychophysique et neuropharmacologique le phénomène d’illusion de douleur provoqué par une grille thermique. Cette douleur paradoxale est provoquée par l’application cutanée de stimulations froides et chaudes non douloureuses entrelacées. Nous avons montré que la douleur paradoxale était un phénomène robuste pour 70% des volontaires sains explorés (répondeurs). Décrite le plus souvent comme une brûlure au chaud, son intensité et sa fréquence étaient directement corrélées à l’amplitude du différentiel entre les températures chaudes et froides. Elle était souvent précédée par une sensation paradoxale chaude non douloureuse. Sa modulation impliquait spécifiquement les systèmes glutamatergiques, et moins spécifiquement les systèmes opioïdergiques. La forte analogie entre la douleur paradoxale et l’allodynie thermique montrée ici suggère que la grille thermique pourrait devenir un outil utile à l’étude mécanistique et pharmacologique de la douleur pathologique.
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Monet, Annick. "Philodeme, sur les sensations. Edition critique et commentaire du pherc. 19 698." Lille 3, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993LIL30013.
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Le pherc. 19 698, papyrus conserve a l'officina dei papiri de la bibliotheque nationale de naples, meritait a plus d'un titre une nouvelle edition basee sur une lecture attentive de l'original. Trente-six colonnes ont pu etre reconstituees par mes soins et presentent un texte plus accessible que celui de l'edition de w. Scott (fragmenta herculanensia, oxford 1885). L'auteur de ce livre sur les sensations est l'epicurien philodeme de gadara, comme le montrent une etude du style et des idees contenues dans le texte. Le commentaire s'appuie, dans la mesure du possible, sur une confrontation a la fois avec la theorie de la sensation developpee par epicure et lucrece et avec les theories aristoteliciennes (donnees dans le de anima et le de sensu) et les theories stoiciennes. L'analyse de l'horizon philosophique montre que le texte du pherc. 19 698 constitue un document tres utile pou la connaissance non seulement des theories epicurienne ou stoicienne de la sensation, mais aussi pour la maniere dont les epicuriens travaillaient sur la traditionThe pherc. 19 698, a papyrus conserved at the officina dei papiri of the national library of naples, deserved for several reasons a new edition based on a careful reading of the original. Though my efforts, 36 colums were able to be restored, rendering the text more accessible than in the w. Scott edition (fragmenta herculanensia, oxford 1885). A study of the style and the ideas contained in the text show the author of this book, on sensations, is the epicurean philodemus of gadara. The commentary is based as far as possible on a conparison at one and the same time with the theory of sensation developed by epicurus and lucretius and with the aristotelian theories (given in the de anima and the de sensu) and the stoic theories. An analysis of the philosophical horizon shows that the pherc. 19 698 text is very useful in illuminating not only the epicurean and stoic theories of sensations, but also the manner in which the epicureans worked on traditional theories
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Farges, Florent. "Alexithymie et toxicomanie." Paris 8, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA081698.
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Un fonctionnement alexithymique est suspecte parmi les sujets presentant des conduites addictives. Cette recherche a pour objectif principal de le confirmer chez les toxicomanes, et secondairement d'etudier la frequence de la dependance interpersonnelle et de la recherche de sensations fortes chez les toxicomanes alexithymiques. Pour ce faire, un echantillon de 143 toxicomanes repondant aux criteres dsm-iv d'abus ou de dependance aux substances psycho-actives (alcool exclus), a ete apparie selon les variables sociodemographiques a un echantillon temoin de 165 sujets. Les instruments utilises sont le m. I. N. I. , la tas-20, le bdi-13, l'i. D. I. Et la s. S. S. (forme v). Les resultats, aussi bien en analyses dimensionnelle que categorielle, confirment la prevalence elevee de l'alexithymie chez les toxicomanes (40,8%), par rapport a celle des temoins (17,2%). Cette difference est obtenue grace a la composante emotionnelle, la composante cognitive ne differenciant pas les deux echantillons. L'alexithymie apparait comme etant thymodependante. Les toxicomanes alexithymiques presentent une dependance interpersonnelle significativement plus elevee que les toxicomanes qui ne sont pas alexithymiques, tandis que cette difference n'est pas retrouvee concernant la recherche de sensations fortes. L'auteur suggere que les therapies de groupe axees sur l'expression des emotions pourraient etre une aide therapeutique efficace pour les toxicomanes alexithymiques.
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Masuo, Hiromi. "Les bruits dans "A la recherche du temps perdu" /." Tokyo : Éd. Surugadai, 1994. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35744062m.
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Laithier, Gilles. "Expression et sensibilité." Paris 8, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA084199.
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Calan, Ronan de. "Généalogie de la sensation : physique, physiologie et psychologie en Europe, de Fernel à Locke." Lyon, Ecole normale supérieure, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008ENSF0052.
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Contrairement à ce que laisse accroire une maxime pour nous sans âge -"Nihil est in intellectu quin prius fuerit in sensu", rien n'est dans l'intellect qui n'ait été auparavant dans les sens- le concept comme le lexique de la "sensation" ("sensatio" en latin) sont entrés très tardivement sur la scène philosophique, dans la première moitié du XVIIe siècle. Leur apparition nécessitait en effet un double processus d'unification, de l'instance psychique et de la causalité physique. Ce processus s'est amorcé certes tardivement, mais les catégories scolaires n'en ont malheureusement retenu qu'une version, celle de Descartes, dans laquelle pourtant ni le lexique ni le concept de sensation n'ont leur place. On peut alors fixer la tâche d'une généalogie : remonter aux sources multiples de cette double unification, à ses diverses formulations, ainsi qu'aux divergentes théories du sensible auxquelles elles ont donné lieu. La sensation se révèle alors être moins l'expression d'un "climat idéologique" que la résultante de choix théoriques précis, tant dans le domaine de la physique que dans celui de la physiologie ou encore de la psychologie. Ces choix permettent en outre d'établir plus précisément les coordonées de l'empirisme moderneContrary to what an old maxim had us believe - "Nihil est in intellectu quin prius fuerit in sensu", nothing is in the intellect which was not previously in the senses - both the concept and the word "sensation" (latin "sensatio") entered the philosophical stage very late, in the first half of the seventeenth century. Their appearance implied a double unification process- of the psychological subject on the one hand, and of the physical causality on the other. This process did not begin very early indeed, but the scholastic way of thinking did remember only one version of it, Descartes', for whom neither the world nor the concept of sensation could be found. One can identify the task of a genealogy : to return to the multiple sources of this double unification process, to its diverse formulations, and to the divergent theories of the sensible they induced. Sensation appears to be not the mere expression of an "ideological climate", but the result of theoretical choices in the domains of physics, physiology and psychology. These choices also enable us to identify the characteristics of modern empiricism
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Bari, S. K. "The life of sensations : phenomenality and affectivity in the poetry of John Keats." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.596357.
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This thesis presents a series of readings of poems by John Keats (1795-1821), and traces through his work the idea of a self-sensing subject, engaged in a complex relationship both with orders and with its environment. Keats’s imagined subject is singular but contingent, and contests the unshareable condition of being with the affective claims of love and grief. This proposition is explored through Keats’s poetry and with recourse to a range of philosophical and theoretical thinkers, most particularly Immanuel Kant, Martin Heidegger, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy. Attending to some familiar and other less known works by Keats, the thesis develops chapters exploring the nature of touch, the evocation of presence, the poetics of ecology, the pursuit of freedom and the weight of grief. The thesis interlaces poetic and philosophical material in order to trace a trajectory from a Kantian subject around whom the world forms, to a Heideggerian world in which being takes place constitutively with others. The thesis culminates in a reading of Keats’s Hyperion poems, and draws from them a conception of post-apocalyptic care in which the world and the subjects that dwell upon it are endangered by and entrusted to each other. The thesis has three objectives. First, it presents new readings of Keats’s work. Second, it explores the possibility of a method of critical reading in the present where old poems are allowed to resonate in a contemporary moment. Lastly, the thesis draws from the method of close reading a sense of the particular phenomenality of Keats’s verse (his evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts, breathing bodies, and an elemental world of air, water and stone) and proposes that the irreducibly singular ‘life of sensations’ is also thoughtful and committed to the affective claims made by and between human beings.
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Goller, Aviva Idit. "Perceptual abnormalities in amputees : phantom pain, mirror-touch synaesthesia and referred tactile sensations." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/39679/.
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It is often reported that after amputation people experience "a constant or inconstant ... sensory ghost ... faintly felt at time, but ready to be called up to [their] perception" (Mitchell, 1866). Perceptual abnormalities have been highlighted in amputees, such as sensations in the phantom when being stroked elsewhere (Ramachandran et al., 1992) or when observing someone in pain (Giummarra and Bradshaw, 2008). This thesis explored the perceptual changes that occur following amputation whist focusing on pain, vision and touch. A sample of over 100 amputees were recruited through the National Health Service. Despite finding no difference in phantom pain based on physical amputation details or nonpainful perceptual phenomena, results from Paper 1 indicated that phantom pain may be more intense, with sensations occurring more frequently, in amputees whose pain was triggerinduced. The survey in Paper 2 identified a group of amputees who in losing a limb acquired mirror-touch synaesthesia. Higher levels of empathy found in mirror-touch amputees might mean that some people are predisposed to develop synaesthesia, but that it takes sensory loss to bring dormant cross-sensory interactions into consciousness. Although the mirror-system may reach supra-threshold levels in some amputees, the experiments in Paper 3 suggested a relatively intact mirror-system in amputees overall. Specifically, in a task of apparent biological motion, amputees showed a similar, although weaker, pattern of results to normalbodied participants. The results of Paper 4 showed that tactile spatial acuity on the face was also largely not affected by amputation, as no difference was found between the sides ipsilateral and contralateral to the stump. In Paper 5 cross-modal cuing was used to investigate whether referred tactile sensations could prime a visually presented target in space occupied by the phantom limb. We conclude that perception is only moderately affected in most amputees, but that in some the sensory loss causes normally sub-threshold processing to enhance into conscious awareness.
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Thibault, Estelle. "Entre expression et sensations : les esthétiques scientifiques de l'architecture en France, 1860-1950." Paris 8, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA082529.
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Dans la France du milieu du 19e au milieu du 20e siècles, une série d'écrits affichent l'ambition récurrente de fonder une " science de l'esthétique architecturale ". Au moment où l'esthétique se constitue progressivement comme discipline, les architectes, de César Daly à André Lurçat, cherchent dans ce nouveau domaine des appuis pour étayer une rationalisation des effets de l'architecture sur le sujet. Au fil de leurs textes apparaît un déplacement des modèles de rationalité, de la philosophie vers les sciences expérimentales. Psychologie, physiologie, sociologie sont mobilisées pour constituer un savoir dont l'objet est l'homme, destinataire de l'architecture, dont on pourrait modéliser les réactions affectives. Ces réflexions ont contribué à infléchir la conception de l'architecture comme " langage " et la manière de considérer le corps humain comme étalon de l'architecture. Elles ont également favorisé la construction de méthodes d'analyse formelle appliquées aux édificesIn France, from the middle of the 19th to the middle of the 20th century, a series of writings repeatedly proclaim the objective of founding a “science of architectural aesthetics”. As aesthetics is gradually becoming a separate discipline, architects, starting from César Daly to André Lurçat, are searching in this new field for the theoretical underpinnings of a knowledge that would aim at the rationalization of the effects of architecture on man. The source of their theoretical models switches from philosophy to experimental science. Psychology, physiology, sociology are brought together to build a knowledge of man as the addressee of architecture, a subject for whose reactions theoretical patterns can be found. The evolution of this knowledge has helped form a conception of architecture as a “language” and a way of considering the human body as the standard of architecture. This thinking has also led to the definition of methods of formal analysis applied to buildings
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Roesch, Matthew. "Les Sensations fortes: The phenomenological aesthetics of the French action film." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1499821478202158.
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Miller, Nicola Anne. "The significance of kinaesthetic vocal sensations related to listening behaviour : an MRI study." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2014. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=216996.
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The aim of this project was to investigate the nature and possible significance of first-person kinaesthetic vocal sensations observed in association with musical listening. Hearing and voice are known to be closely linked but the mechanisms that underlie their close relationship are not yet understood. The presence of kinaesthetic vocal sensations challenges accounts of auditory processing that are divorced from peripheral vocal input and, instead, suggests the hypothesis that auditory and vocal processing mechanisms rely on shared peripheral substrates in addition to their increasingly recognized shared (brain-based) central substrates. To investigate this hypothesis, I used MRI and developed a measurement protocol (informed by established methods in cephalometry) that would allow me to relate vocal structures to their direct and indirect bony attachments to the craniofacial skeleton, cervical spine and sternum. After establishing the method's validity in subjects at rest, I acquired midsagittal MR images (under conditions where articulatory and postural input was negligible) while subjects (1) hummed and (2) listened (in a focused way) to low and high notes at each end of their range. Geometric and shape analysis of craniocaudal, craniocervical and anteroposterior variables revealed significant differences between low- and high-note conditions and widespread correlations between variables for both humming and listening investigations. An unexpected association between pitch change and changes of cervical alignment was also found. These results were complemented and extended by using the same MR images to build an active shape model (ASM). In addition to showing how vocal structures move together, ASM showed goal-related vocal activity to consist of one or more independent modes of variation. Together, the observations, experimental results, and evidence from diverse historical and contemporary sources, support the hypothesis that mechanisms underlying auditory and vocal processing rely on shared central and peripheral substrates. Wide-ranging implications arising from this hypothesis are also discussed.
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Samé, Martine. "Le toucher suspendu." Phd thesis, Université Paris-Est, 2009. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00512771.
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Dans un contexte d'apprentissage de la masso-kinésithérapie en Institut de Formation Initiale, cette étude retrace et analyse les risques pris et encourus par les étudiants de première et deuxième année. Nombre d'entre eux n'ont soit pas conscience des dangers d'un toucher mal exécuté, soit pas envie de se limiter à des gestes plus sécuritaires. Face à cette situation inacceptable, faire appel à leurs capacités sensitives et réflexives n'est pas suffisant. L'hypothèse émise dans cette thèse pour rendre leurs actes moins risqués est qu'ils prennent le temps de suspendre leur toucher à leurs sensations, leur raison, mais également et surtout à leurs émotions. Ainsi, peurs, orgueil et joie, habilement intégrés à leurs désirs, pourraient peut être les mener à un apprentissage du toucher beaucoup plus éthique
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Fiebig, André [Verfasser]. "Cognitive stimulus integration in the context of auditory sensations and sound perceptions / Andre Fiebig." Berlin : epubli GmbH, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1079767789/34.
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Salkin, Sean. "A survey of the use of the term vedana (“sensations”) in the Pali Nikayas." University of Sydney, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2075.
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Manduch, Marosh. "Stimulation-evoked pain and temperature sensations in thalamus of pain and non-pain patients." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0006/MQ46163.pdf.
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McCreary, Paul. "How it feels to hunt : the embodied feelings and sensations of hunting in Alaska." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.602459.
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The interaction between sensory, bodily and emotional factors is shown in this thesis to determine How it feels to hunt in Alaska. Hunters there see themselves as part of a shared landscape with their prey and other nonhuman animals. Within that environment they realise that, as part of the natural rhythms of life, they are not in control. Therefore, there are no expected guarantees of even sighting an animal within range or legal restrictions. I make the argument that both the weather and game animals have agency, contributing to the felt experiences. One aspect of hunting that this can be clearly seen in is materialities. Clothing is not static textile only and, like other things, gains its' relevance in a double manner: how the items are put to use, but also the inevitability that that will introduce situationally dependent sensations and' emotions. Movement, of a garment, an item or a machine plus the motion of the hunter, has the potential to radically rewrite the entire picture of what is felt. The thesis also demonstrates the lived temporalities of hunting. Hunters in Alaska are shown to handle, rather than exploit, time, tuning their bodily time to that of their quarry. Hunts are viewed here as without having specific beginnings and cut-off points. One folds into the next through preparation, anticipation, stories and learning. The emotions related to hunting are put forward as being of varying degrees of intensity depending on what the hunter is immersed in. Each of the major themes of embodiment, engagement, temporalities, sensory interaction with animals, the natural world and spaces of hunts contributes strongly in the making of place for hunters.
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Salkin, Sean. "A survey of the use of the term vedanā ("sensations") in the Pali Nikāyas." Connect to full text, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2075.
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Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Sydney, 2005.Title from title screen (viewed 28 March 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy to the Dept. of Indian Sub-Continental Studies, Faculty of Arts. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.
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Vignes, Sylvie. "Un barrage contre le vide : le travail des sensations dans l'oeuvre de Jean Giono." Toulouse 2, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998TOU20052.
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"Qui a dit : un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères ?" Telle est la clausule de la première chronique gionienne, ou les contemporains étonnés ont découvert, en 1948, un Giono sombre, voire tragique. Malgré cette référence, c'est un pari fort différent du célèbre pari pascalien que nous invitent à découvrir les œuvres de Giono. On peut, en effet, avancer que le divertissement n'y apparaît pas comme la fuite honteuse de l'homme dont la foi en Dieu est insuffisante mais, au contraire, comme sa seule planche de salut. Parce qu'un des maîtres-mots de Jean Giono est le mot bonheur, parce qu'il a proclamé à longueur de vie et d'œuvre qu'il était doué pour le bonheur, le lecteur s'en tient parfois à l'image trompeuse d'un provençal épanoui, au caractère facile. Or, rien n'est facile, rien n'est manichéen dans l'univers de Giono et son bonheur n'est finalement que le revers affiché, revendiqué, d'un pessimisme déjà lisible dans ses tout premiers romans, qui s'aggrava brutalement à l'approche de la seconde guerre mondiale pour devenir une vraie noirceur à la libération. Si le bonheur existe bien dans sa vie et son œuvre c'est le résultat d'un combat de plus en plus âpre mené contre les forces du vide. La sensorialité joue un rôle essentiel dans ce combat et, de manière générale, dans l'univers de Giono, même si son traitement et sa place évoluent sensiblement au fil des années. Alors que dans les premiers romans, elle est pléthorique, dans les textes de maturité, les sensations ont une place nettement plus restreinte quantitativement mais sont, à notre avis, plus vitales encore. Mais, au fond, de naissance de l'Odyssée à l'Iris de Suse, on aura toujours affaire, pour citer J. Leroy, à une vision du monde où la sensualité combat sans cesse le désespoir. Dans cette vision du monde, il convient d'explorer le hiatus entre une philosophie de la sensation, ce pari gionien qui fait une large place à la sophrologie et à la systématisation et un imaginaire, une écriture qui, intégrant toutes les difficultés, tous les doutes, élaborent un fascinant objet"Who said : un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères?", such is the ending of the first Gionian chronicle, in which amazed contemporaries discovered, in 1948, a sombre or even tragic streak in Giono. Despite this reference, Giono's writings are an appeal to discover a much different bet from pascal's famous bet. One can indeed sustain that entertainment does not come forth as the shameful escapism of the man whose faith in god is insufficient but, on the contrary, as his only opportunity of rescue. Because one of Giono's keywords is the word "happiness", because, throughout his life and writings, he maintained he had a gift for happiness, the reader sometimes sticks to the deceitful image of a beaming, easy-going southerner. But, in fact, nothing is easy or Manichean in Giono's universe; his happiness is after all nothing else but the - claimed - other face of pessimism already present in his early novels. This trend was to worsen brutally with the forthcoming World War II, before turning, in 1945, into utter gloom. If happiness does exist in his life and writings, it is the outcome of a harsher and harsher struggle against the forces of the void. Sensoriality plays a decisive part in that struggle and in Giono's writings generally, even though its treatment and place evolve significantly through the years. Although in the early novels it is plethoric, in his mature writings, sensations are given lesser space but are, in our opinion, even more vital. But, on a deeper level, from "Naissance de l'Odyssée" to "L'Iris de Suse", one is still confronted - to quote J. Leroy - to "une vision du monde où la sensualité combat sans cesse le désespoir" 2. In that "vision of the world", one has to explore the gap between a philosophy of sensations, that Gionian bet which does not avoid sophrology and systematization, and his imagination, his style which, integrating all the difficulties and doubts, elaborate a fascinating object. 1 Pascal: a king without entertainment is a wretched man. 2 J. Leroy: a vision of the world where sensuality is engaged in a never-ending fight against despair
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Lecuelle, Guillaume. "Analyse et modélisation de la Dominance Temporelle des Sensations à l'aide de processus stochastiques." Thesis, Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019UBFCK031/document.
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La Dominance Temporelle des Sensations (DTS) est une méthode d’analyse sensorielle qui mesure la perception temporelle d’un produit au cours de sa dégustation. Pour un panéliste, la DTS consiste à choisir parmi une liste de descripteurs lequel est dominant à chaque instant. Ce travail a pour but la modélisation des données DTS à l’aide de processus stochastiques et propose d’utiliser les processus semi-markoviens (PSM), une généralisation des chaînes de Markov qui permet de modéliser librement les durées de dominance. Le modèle obtenu peut être utilisé pour comparer des échantillons DTS en réalisant un rapport de vraisemblance. Étant donné que les probabilités de transition entre les descripteurs peuvent dépendre du temps, nous proposons d’utiliser des modèles différents par période et nous proposons un algorithme pour déterminer le nombre et les frontières de ces périodes de manière optimale. Le modèle est représenté sous forme d’un graphe montrant les transitions entre descripteurs les plus observées. Finalement, ce travail introduit les modèles de mélange de processus semi-markoviens afin de segmenter le panel en fonction des différences de perception interindividuelles.Les méthodes développées sont appliquées à des jeux de données DTS variés : chocolats, fromages frais et Goudas. Les résultats montrent que la modélisation par un PSM apporte de nouvelles informations sur la perception temporelle, en particulier sur la variabilité de perception au sein d’un panel, alors que les méthodes classiques se focalisent sur une vision moyenne de la perception du panel. De plus, à notre connaissance, ce travail est le premier à proposer l’identification d’un modèle de mélange de processus semi-markoviensTemporal Dominance of Sensations (TDS) is a technique to measure temporal perception of food product during tasting. For a panelist, it consists in choosing in a list of attributes which one is dominant at any time. This work aims to model TDS data with a stochastic process and proposes to use semi-Markov processes (SMP), a generalization of Markov chains which allows dominance durations to be modeled by any type of distribution. The model can then be used to compare TDS samples based on likelihood ratio. Because probabilities of transition from one attribute to another one can also depend on time, we propose to model TDS by period and we propose a method to select optimally the number of periods and the frontiers between periods. Graphs built upon the stochastic pattern can be plotted to represent main chronological transitions between attributes. Finally, this work introduces new statistical models based on finite mixtures of semi-Markov processes in order to derive consumer segmentation based on individual differences in temporal perception of a product.The methods are applied to various TDS datasets: chocolates, fresh cheeses and Gouda cheeses. Results show that SMP modeling gives new information about temporal perception compared to classical methods. It particularly emphasizes the existence of several perceptions for a same product in a panel, whereas classical methods only provide a mean panel overview. Furthermore, as far as we know, this work is the first one that considers mixtures of semi-Markov processes
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Prentice, Wendy. "Psychotic and non psychotic interpretations of physiological sensations in delusional, panic, and healthy populations." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25095.
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It has been suggested that people with psychosis as well as people with panic disorder experience similar internal experiences (thoughts, emotions, body state information) but interpret them in different ways. This study seeks to explore the extent to which individuals who experience delusions and those who experience panic are similar in terms of their interpretations of common somatic symptoms and to explore other factors which have been implicated in causing and maintaining delusions. This has implications for the further understanding and treatment of delusions. This study used a between groups design and was based on an opportunity sample of inpatients in a psychiatric ward and out patients attending clinical psychology and psychiatry departments. Three groups of participants were recruited for this study which included 16 people who were experiencing delusions, 11 people who were experiencing panic disorder, and 15 healthy individuals who have no previous history of mental health problems. The participants filled in self-report questionnaires measuring somatic attributions; metacognitions; experiential avoidance; state/trait anxiety; delusion proneness; self-esteem and emotionality. Significant differences were found between the clinical groups and the healthy control group on scores for all 7 measures, supporting the hypotheses regarding the similarities between the clinical groups, although there is partial support for the idea that the clinical groups interpreted somatic symptoms differently; however, this is tentative. Overall, the results provide support for the continuum model of psychosis and Morrison’s theory that people who experience panic and those who experience delusions process internal events in a similar way. These results also inadvertently suggest that anomalous internal experiences may be necessary in order for delusional beliefs to occur.
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Blakemore, Sarah-Jayne. "Recognising the sensory consequences of one's own actions." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324633.
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Steinke, Hubert. "Irritating experiments : Haller's concept and the European controversy on irritability and sensibility, 1750-90 /." Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40091557x.
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Pasewalck, Silke. ""Die fünffingrige Hand" : die Bedeutung der sinnlichen Wahrnehmung beim späten Rilke /." Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38962211z.
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Bonnaire, Céline. "Recherche de sensations et alexithymie dans différents types de jeu : comparaison entre des joueurs pathologiques, réguliers et occasionnels." Paris 5, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA05H040.
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L'objectif principal de cette recherche est d'étudier le trait de personnalité "recherche de sensations" et l'alexithymie (en lien avec la dépression) chez des joueurs s'adonnant à différents types de jeu (les courses de chevaux sur les hippodromes, les machines à sous et les jeux traditionnels : roulette et cartes). Notre hypothèse de travail postule que les niveaux de recherche de sensations (SSS - forme V) et d'alexithymie (TAS-20) varient en fonction du type de joueurs (pathologiques, réguliers et occasionnels) et du type de jeu étudié. Ainsi les joueurs pathologiques d'hippodromes (n=42), qui s'adonnent à des jeux actifs, ont les scores de recherche de sensations les plus élevés et sont les plus alexithymiques. Les joueurs pathologiques de machines à sous (n=27), qui s'adonnent à des jeux passifs, sont quant à eux des bas chercheurs de sensations, ils sont alexithymiques et ont les scores de dépression les plus élevés. Les joueurs pathologiques de jeux traditionnels (n=15), catégorie intermédiaire, n'ont pas des scores élevés sur ces dimensions. Les résultats confirment la nécessité de créer des sous-groupes de joueurs. Certaines formes de jeux appellent des individus présentant des caractéristiques bien spécifiquent. La prise en charge des joueurs pathologiques doit tenir compte de cette typologie afin d'adapter au mieux les protocoles psychothérapeutiquesThe aim of this research is to study the sensation seeking personality trait and alexithymia (and his link to depression) in gamblers who play different types of game (horse racing at the racetrack, fruit machine and casino games : roulette and cards). Our working hypothesis postulates that scores on sensation seeking (SSS-form V) and alexithymia (TAS-20) scales may vary depending on types of gamblers (pathological, regular and occasional) and types of game. Pathological gamblers who go to the racetrack (n=42), playing active games, have the highest scores on sensation seeking and are the most subject to alexithymia. Pathological gamblers of fruit machine (n=27), playing passive games, are low sensation seekers, they are alexithymic and have highest score of depression. Pathological gamblers of casino games (n=15), a mid class, are not performing well on these scales. These findings are consistent with the idea of identifying distinct subgroups of gamblers. Some people showing typical features could be attracted by some specific sort of games. Therefore treatment of pathological gamblers should take into account this typology to be more efficient