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Runyeon, Marian 1960. "Subjectivity and objectivity of body sensation: A study of kinesthesis." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276728.

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The importance of touch-related sensations as a kinesthetic perceptual system through the observation of the subject/object phenomenon is explored through defining aspects of movement learning experiences associated with dance training.

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Lassiter, Donald L. "The effects of transient adaptation on detection and identification." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/28931.

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Shing, Marn-Ling. "Developmental trends in understanding an illusion based on weight adaptation : the effect of cueing questions /." The Ohio State University, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487335992903047.

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Anderson, Charles E. "Holistic preaching a method of sermon preparation and delivery that incorporates learning styles and multiple sense stimulus /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2006. http://www.tren.com.

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Gerstley, Lawrence D. "Cross-modal and synaesthetic perception in music and vision." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2223.

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This thesis is concerned with the cross-modal and synaesthetic perception of musical and visual stimuli. Each of these types of perception has been researched separately, and a hypothesis is presented here that accounts for both cross-modal matching and the development of synaesthesia. This hypothesis claims that sensory information can be evaluated in another modality by using a scale of comparison in that modality. The first set of experiments examines normal subjects performing cross-modal matching with coloured circles and auditory stimuli that vary in complexity. It is shown that subjects use a variety of scales of comparison from both visual and auditory modalities to form matches. As the stimuli increase in complexity, the individual variation in cross-modal matching also increases. The second set of experiments examines matching performance using higher order stimuli, by having subjects evaluate fragments of melodies and complete melodies on affective and descriptive adjective scales. Melodies were also matched with landscape scenes to examine if subjects could form matches between two highly complex sets of stimuli. The final experiments examine synaesthetic associations with colour, evoked from music, letters, numbers, and other categorical information. Common features of synaesthesia from a population of synaesthetes are identified, and experiments performed to test the interference of the synaesthetic associations. Additional experiments are presented that explore the superior short-term memory of one synaesthete, and the role of his associations as a mnemonic device.

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Davich, Jessica A. "An examination of a brushing program for a child with sensory sensitivity." Online version, 2009. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2009/2009davichj.pdf.

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Pavony, Michelle. "Somatosensory processing and borderline personality disorder a signal detection analysis of proprioception and exteroceptive sensitivity /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2009.

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Wansten, Jamie. "Back to your senses." This title; PDF viewer required Home page for entire collection, 2008. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.

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Solander, Tove. ""Creating the Senses" : Sensation in the work of Shelley Jackson." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-65968.

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This monograph on the œuvre of contemporary American author and multimedia artist Shelley Jackson addresses the question of how literary works employ language to evoke sense impressions. Gilles Deleuze’s notion of aesthetic percepts is drawn on to develop a theory of literary phantom sensations which is then tested on the work of Jackson and related authors. Although imperceptible as such, it is argued that percepts are made perceptible in art in sense-specific forms as phantom sensations. “Phantom” is not meant to indicate a pale shadow of real sensations but the intensely perceived realness of phantom limb phenomena, in accordance with Deleuze’s understanding of the virtual as real but not actual. For the sake of clarity, literary phantom sensations are divided into phantom smells, tastes, touches, sights and sounds, with a chapter devoted to each in turn. It is found that different phantom sensations serve different functions in Jackson’s work, correlated to the cultural history of the senses as outlined by recent sensory scholarship. Phantom smells are associated with Deleuze’s concept of becoming due to their liminality. Phantom tastes contribute to an aesthetics of distaste in which shades of disgust are cultivated and drawn upon for literary effect. Phantom touch creates conceptual intimacy and invites the reader to handle words like toys in a game. Phantom sight is turned back upon itself in an anatomy of the eye. Phantom hearing is associated with forms of ventriloquism in which it is unclear who is speaking through whom and in which language itself throws its voice. However, it is also found that all phantom sensations similarly serve to create a material and affective connection between the body of the reader and the body of the text. Throughout the dissertation, Jackson’s work is read against and alongside that of other writers such as Djuna Barnes, Neil Bartlett, Brigid Brophy and Leonora Carrington. Together these form a trajectory termed minor writing for queers to come, which is meant to indicate that aesthetic and sexual-political radicalism go hand in hand. Furthermore, Jackson’s work is described as a form of body writing informed by feminist body art and écriture féminine. Specifically, Jackson takes her cue from early modern anatomical blazons and describes living bodies in pieces. Her work is also described as object writing: a literary equivalent to surrealist object art. A central method for making words more like things is to arrange her texts spatially rather than temporally, as exemplified by her electronic hypertexts.

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Wilson, Jim. "An analysis of the significance of the senses in Scripture with a view toward their use in expository preaching." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.

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Li, Kelin, and 李科林. "The liberation of sensation from reason: going beyond Kant with Deleuze." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43703835.

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Davidson, Kelly Patricia. "On unifying the laws of sensation : an empirical investigation of predictions arising from Norwich's theory of perception." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29594.

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The present thesis constitutes an empirical investigation of the prediction of Norwich's Entropy Theory of Perception that the positive exponent of the magnitude estimation power function and the negative exponents of equations relating the Weber fraction and simple reaction time to stimulus intensity should, since they can all be derived from the theory's Fundamental Equation, be numerically the same. A pilot study consisting of magnitude estimation and reaction time experiments (using pure tone auditory stimuli of varying intensities at five frequencies), and a "main" study comprised of magnitude estimation, reaction time, and Weber fraction experiments are described. The results, while offering possible confirmation of the prediction, remain somewhat tentative, owing to the persistently problematic technique of curve fitting upon which determination of the reaction time and Weber fraction exponents rests. The theory, in leading one to even attempt to compare such previously unrelated measures as magnitude estimation and reaction time with Weber fractions, has yielded, theoretical issues aside, some worthwhile empirical results: I have obtained measures on three different psychophysical tasks from the same subjects over (effectively) the same stimulus range for each of those subjects; and, moreover have, I believe for the first time, explicitly noted that the Weber fraction displays the same decrease in exponent with increasing frequency, followed by an upturn at the highest frequencies, that characterizes both the equal loudness curves and the reaction time curves a la Chocholle. Suggestions are made regarding supplementary curve fitting methods by which to analyze these data, as well as for future research in the psychophysiological realm which, in addition to expanding the scope of the prediction that is being tested, may provide some much needed insight into the numerical values of the multiplicative and additive constants that occur in the equations under consideration in this thesis.
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Sahai, Vineet Medical Sciences Faculty of Medicine UNSW. "The physiology and psychophysics of vibrotactile sensation." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Medical Sciences, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/27323.

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Response characteristics and tactile coding capacities of single neurons of the dorsal column nuclei (DCN), and the dorsal horn, in particular, neurons of the spinocervical tract (SCT), were investigated in anaesthetized cats. Purely dynamically-sensitive tactile neurons of the DCN could be divided into two classes, one associated with hair follicle afferent (HFA) input, the other with Pacinian corpuscle (PC) input. The HFA-related class was most sensitive to low-frequency (<50 Hz) vibration, had phaselocked responses to vibration frequencies up to ~75 Hz and had a graded response output as a function of vibrotactile intensity changes. PC-related neurons had broader vibrotactile sensitivity, extending to ~300 Hz with tightest phaselocking between 50 and 200 Hz. The SCT neurons in the lumbar dorsal horn had tactile receptive fields on the hairy skin of the hindlimb and a very limited capacity to signal, in a graded way, the intensity parameter of the vibrotactile stimulus. Furthermore, because of their inability to respond on a cycle-by-cycle pattern at vibration frequencies above 5-10 Hz, these neurons were unable to provide any useful signal of vibration frequency beyond ~5-10 Hz, in contrast to DCN neurons. In the parallel human psychophysical study, the capacity for vibrotactile frequency detection and discrimination was examined in five subjects in glabrous and hairy skin. The vibrotactile detection threshold values obtained at four standard frequencies of 20, 50, 100 and 200 Hz were markedly higher on the hairy skin than on the glabrous skin. The discrimination task was examined by means of a two-alternative, forced-choice psychophysical procedure. Measures of the discriminable frequency increment (?????) and the Weber Fraction (????? / ??), revealed similar capacities for frequency discrimination at the two different skin sites at the standard frequencies of 20, 100 and 200 Hz, but an equivocal difference at 50 Hz. Cutaneous local anaesthesia in the dorsal forearm produced a marked impairment in vibrotactile detection and discrimination at the low frequencies of 20 and 50 Hz but little effect at higher frequencies, confirming that vibrotactile detection and discrimination in hairy skin depend upon superficial receptors at low vibrotactile frequencies, but depend on deep, probably Pacinian corpuscle receptors for high frequencies.

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Harris, Regina Gray Williamson David A. "Social emanations toward a sociology of human olfaction /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-5170.

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Kobue-Lekalake, Rosemary Ikalafeng. "Sensory perception of bitterness and astringency in sorghum." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2008. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-01152009-175536.

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Li, Kelin. "The liberation of sensation from reason going beyond Kant with Deleuze /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B43703835.

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Kitani, Itsuki. "The pleasure of the senses : the art of sensation in Shelley’s Poetics of Sensibility." Thesis, Durham University, 2011. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1399/.

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This thesis examines Shelley’s art of sensuous imagery, or poetics of sensibility. To elucidate Shelley’s concept of sensibility which links his poetry to its ethical and aesthetic concerns, I combine close textual readings of Shelley’s imagery of the senses with his intellectual and cultural inheritance from the ‘Age of Sensibility’ which encompasses ‘moral philosophy’ (ethics and aesthetics) and ‘natural philosophy’ (science). Chapter I focuses on Shelley’s notions of sensuous pleasure and sympathy. _A Defence of Poetry_ is a pivotal text that expounds Shelley’s aesthetic and ethical taste, exemplified by his concept of sympathy. Taking up this argument, Chapter II investigates Shelley’s vegetarian politics in _Queen Mab_, rooted in what I call _(dis)gusto_, ‘taste’ in both its physical and aesthetic senses. Chapter III focuses on aural imagery in ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’ and ‘Mont Blanc.’ Exploring the interplay between motion and emotion reveals how aesthetics and psychology, in Shelley’s lyrics, are associated with the vocalisation of poetic inspiration. Chapter IV considers the relation of sight to Shelley’s notion of the fragmentary in two ekphrastic texts concerned with visual representation, ‘The Coliseum’ and ‘On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci, In the Florentine Gallery,’ which illuminate Shelley’s idea of a circulating and sympathetic power that unifies humans or subject with object, alongside a fragmentary imperative within these texts. Chapter V investigates Shelley’s treatment of touch and Nature’s economy in ‘The Sensitive-Plant’ by juxtaposing Shelley’s poem with Erasmus Darwin’s cyclical system of Nature known as ‘organic happiness,’ which is recognised only by sympathetic sensibility. Chapter VI considers the intermingled imagery of scent and sympathetic love in _Epipsychidion_ in conjunction with Shelley’s theory of nervous vibrations influenced by eighteenth-century psycho-physiological discourses, mediated through the imagery of Venus, whose duality embodies the interrelations between sensuous pleasure and ideal beauty in Shelley’s poetics of sensibility.

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Schroeder, Stephanie Ann. "Connections through natural perceptions." Thesis, Montana State University, 2009. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2009/schroeder/SchroederS1209.pdf.

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I believe that through sensory connection to our natural surroundings we will reinvigorate a deeper connection with ourselves and to the environment. Architecture could become the medium to create that connection as well as the physical manifestation of our understanding of existence and of time, which facilitates this connection. This thesis seeks an understanding of self and place through our sensory connection to nature. In our modern world, we are presented with a growing amount of synthetic and manufactured surroundings that are designed to be perceived through sight, while sound, smell, taste and touch are considered secondary senses, and experiential quality is not inherent. Our society is moving farther away from a connection to nature and a connection to the earth. I believe that through sensory connection to our natural surroundings we will reinvigorate a deeper connection with ourselves and to the environment. This thesis is exploring how nature is the medium for a deeper connection and understanding of ourselves, who we are, and how we interact with the environment through sensory perception. Natural materials and practices are being replaced with synthetics, which lack the cyclical nature and life of natural materials. Machine-made products lack the ability to connect on a humanistic level due to their perpetual state of youth. "We are increasingly detaching ourselves from 'organic and functional periodicity' which is dictated by nature, and replacing it by 'mechanical periodicity' which is dictated by the schedule, the calendar, and the clock."Â³ These fabricated objects intensify the isolated state of man from the natural world through their constant neglect of the senses and disregard for the energies intrinsic in natural materials. It is my belief that to be able to live meaningful and impassioned lives, we must become more aware of fabricated surroundings, and return to natural environment from which we came. By refocusing on natural processes and materials in the built environment, man can reawaken the relationship we have with nature. I believe that through understanding our surrounding's impact, we can connect with not only ourselves, but the environment.

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Morey, Richard D. "Item response models for the measurement of thresholds." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5500.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on July 28, 2009 Includes bibliographical references.

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Hamilton-Fletcher, Giles. "How touch and hearing influence visual processing in sensory substitution, synaesthesia and cross-modal correspondences." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2015. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/57955/.

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Sensory substitution devices (SSDs) systematically turn visual dimensions into patterns of tactile or auditory stimulation. After training, a user of these devices learns to translate these audio or tactile sensations back into a mental visual picture. Most previous SSDs translate greyscale images using intuitive cross-sensory mappings to help users learn the devices. However more recent SSDs have started to incorporate additional colour dimensions such as saturation and hue. Chapter two examines how previous SSDs have translated the complexities of colour into hearing or touch. The chapter explores if colour is useful for SSD users, how SSD and veridical colour perception differ and how optimal cross-sensory mappings might be considered. After long-term training, some blind users of SSDs report visual sensations from tactile or auditory stimulation. A related phenomena is that of synaesthesia, a condition where stimulation of one modality (i.e. touch) produces an automatic, consistent and vivid sensation in another modality (i.e. vision). Tactile-visual synaesthesia is an extremely rare variant that can shed light on how the tactile-visual system is altered when touch can elicit visual sensations. Chapter three reports a series of investigations on the tactile discrimination abilities and phenomenology of tactile-vision synaesthetes, alongside questionnaire data from synaesthetes unavailable for testing. Chapter four introduces a new SSD to test if the presentation of colour information in sensory substitution affects object and colour discrimination. Chapter five presents experiments on intuitive auditory-colour mappings across a wide variety of sounds. These findings are used to predict the reported colour hallucinations resulting from LSD use while listening to these sounds. Chapter six uses a new sensory substitution device designed to test the utility of these intuitive sound-colour links for visual processing. These findings are discussed with reference to how cross-sensory links, LSD and synaesthesia can inform optimal SSD design for visual processing.

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Potter, Thomas G. "Sensation seeking and anxiety levels before and after exposure to a high risk activity." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=55648.

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Deason, Charlotte Cecille. "Harold Pinter's use of the five senses in The caretaker and A slight ache." To access this resource online via ProQuest Dissertations and Theses @ UTEP, 2008. http://0-proquest.umi.com.lib.utep.edu/login?COPT=REJTPTU0YmImSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=2515.

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Petty, Karis Jade. "Walking with impaired vision : an anthropology of senses, skill and the environment." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2017. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/71259/.

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Main, Keith L. "Plasticity and macular degeneration the reorganization of adult cortical topography /." Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007, 2007. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-04012007-195129/.

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Hwang, Joseph Wook. "Descartes and the metaphysics of sensory perception." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1610004841&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Tavassoli, Teresa. "Sensory perception in autism spectrum conditions." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610035.

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Green, Nancy C. "The influence of parachute jump experience on intensity of sensation seeking and anxiety state during a jump exercise /." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61895.

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Lewis, Lindsay Burke. "Cross-modal plasticity for tactile and auditory stimuli within the visual cortex of early blind human subjects." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3338839.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2009.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed January 13, 2009). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-211).

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Koole, Simeon. "Nervous hands, stolen kisses, and the press of everyday life : touch in Britain, 1870-1960." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f0054773-fbbf-47a9-88dd-c93907fc88b3.

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This thesis provides a history of the sense of touch in modern Britain. Seeking out fugitive intimacies and incidental brushes of lover and stranger alike, it argues that far from being a natural constant, what, how, and why people touched, and what they felt when they did, has a history. Through five case studies of different domains - the mind sciences, visual impairment, public transport, law, and commercialized leisure - it explores how these uses changed, and how they transformed Britons' understandings and experiences of their bodies. Both as a practice and a metaphor, from making space on the bus to keeping 'in touch', touch established the distinctions that Britons made between their bodies and the world and themselves and others. In doing so, touch crucially shaped histories of law, labour relations, scientific experiment, education, and love in the early twentieth century. But it also reformulated the very distinctions of selfhood - distinctions of inner self and outer body, person and thing - on which our accounts of modernity are based. By tracing a history of touch, then, this thesis turns touch into a means of critique. It challenges histories of modernity for which selfhood is a substance rather than produced only through particular social relationships. But it also proposes a new way of thinking about selfhood as an immanent relationship the self has with itself through use of the body. Through historically specific ways of touching, early twentieth-century Britons shaped not only their experience of themselves as bodies, but also the boundaries defining them as selves. Their selfhood was, in short, what they did with the body through touch. By exploring the history of touch between 1870 and 1960, this thesis therefore offers an alternative account of British modernity and a way of re-examining histories of selfhood within and beyond modern Britain.

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Daniels, Laura Allison. "Victorian Psychology in Sensation and New Woman Fiction." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.486765.

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My thesis takes as its basic premise that questions ofidentity are crucial to the genres of Sensation and New Woman fiction and explores how authors such as Wilkie Collins, MaryElizabeth Braddon, Sarah Grand, Mona Caird and George Egerton integrated contemporary theories about the self into their fiction. My first chapter considers how Sensation fiction mirrored the growing scientific belief that physiognomy, like phrenology before it, was ofno assistance in helping to either identify the self or diagnose mental disorder before tracing the way in which New . . Woman fiction also took such a position. My second chapter considers the way in which Sensation fiction represented the embodied self, charting the way in which the genre appropriated the tenets of eighteenth century psychology - that ofphrenology and association psychology - and the mid nineteenth century physiological psychology in order to do so. My fmal chapter examines the way in which Sensation fiction and New Woman fiction draw on the concept ofthe will within mid nineteenth century psychological discourse in order to represent the self. This work is based in New Historicist methodology and an immersion in textual detail.

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Österbauer, Robert Alexander. "Multisensory integration of olfaction." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:34764b4d-7d12-461b-8a88-c3aa3418d228.

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The primary aim of this thesis was to investigate, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the neurophysiological basis of multisensory integration involving smell and vision. To achieve this goal, several technical challenges had to be addressed: the attainment of sufficiently high quality fMRI images in olfactory brain regions within the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), the construction of a stimulus delivery system adequate for rapid and controlled odour delivery in the MRI environment, and optimal strategies for delivering and perceiving liquid flavour stimuli in the scanner. In two initial fMRI experiments, strategies including sensitivity encoding and passive shimming to improve OFC image quality were explored. The results demonstrated that both methods can improve signal detection in OFC, a brain area particularly sensitive to susceptibility artefacts. In a further fMRI study, the effectiveness of two methods of delivering odorants dissolved in liquids was compared. In this study, the same set of participants was required to either swallow the liquid immediately after delivery or hold it in their mouths for a brief period of time. The results indicated that while both methods allowed detection of activity in primary olfactory and gustatory cortices, activation of the OFC was not observed when participants swallowed the liquids immediately. This was presumed to be due to the increased head motion associated with swallowing. Finally, the mechanisms underlying visual-olfactory integration were investigated using a combination of behavioural and imaging methods. An initial behavioural study revealed strong colour-odour associations for certain smells associated with fruits (e.g. lemon - yellow). In a subsequent fMRI study, volunteers were presented with a selection of the most colour-associated odours from the prior behavioural study either in isolation or in the presence of congruent and incongruent colours. Analysis of the fMRI data revealed that a highly left lateralised network of brain areas comprising of the OFC and insular showed increasingly stronger responses to odour-colour combinations of higher congruency. In a follow-up fMRI study, this same network was also found to be responsible for integrating odours, not only with colours, but also with their corresponding visual images (objects). In sum, the series of fMRI studies undertaken in this thesis argue for a fundamental role of the OFC in the integration of olfactory-visual inputs in the human brain.

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Thesen, Thomas. "Multisensory processing in the human brain." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2005. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e644c5d7-1cf6-42d5-b073-86f1f70a48b6.

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Perception has traditionally been studied as a modular function where different sensory systems operate as separate and independent modules. However, multisensory integration is essential for the perception of a coherent and unified representation of the external world that we experience phenomenologically. Mounting evidence suggests that the senses do not operate in isolation but that the brain processes and integrates information across modalities. A standing debate is at what level in the processing hierarchy the sensory streams converge, for example, if multisensory speech information converges first in higher-order polysensory areas such as STS and is then fed back to sensory areas, or if information is already integrated in primary and secondary sensory areas at the early stages of sensory processing. The studies in this thesis aim to investigate this question by focussing on the spatio-temporal aspects of multisensory processing, as well as investigating phonetic and non-phonetic integration in the human brain during auditory-visual speech perception.

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Price, Richard. "The way things look." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670132.

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Smith, S. "Neural and psychological mechanisms of oral sensation." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2019. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/9959/.

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This thesis set out to explore oral sensory processing. Oral sensory processing extends beyond taste perception, the nerves that innervate the mouth and carry taste information to the brain also carry chemosensations, thermal sensations and somatosensations. While a great deal is understood about oral chemo and thermal perception, this thesis focuses on the not fully recognised oral somatosensory processes. A substantial amount of movement occurs within the mouth, from movement while speaking to chewing food. As food moves around the mouth, different oral receptors are activated and the consumption experience changes. Taste perception varies between individuals in a way that has led to the identification of the taster status genetic polymorphism of taster status where three taster groups (hyper-taster, taster, tolerant taster) with differing sensitivity to bitter tastes were identified. This sensitivity is further represented in anatomical differences with differing densities of fungiform papillae on the tongue. Using psychophysical methods and the taster status phenotype, this thesis examined if different regions of the tongue and mouth experienced different chemostimulant intensity and if dynamic touch changed the intensity perception of chemostimulants in chapter 4. This identified that different regions of the oral cavity experience chemostimulant intensity differently with the tip of the tongue being the most sensitive and the vermillion of the lower lip the least sensitive to sensation. Furthermore, whilst there was no main effect of touch on sensation intensity an interaction between touch type, taster status and oral locations was found when using 10-ppm capsaicin and Sichuan pepper. A dynamic touch on the lip with mint oil was also considered more intense than a static touch. Chapter 5 investigated the possibility that C tactile (CT) afferents were present in the lower lip, the structure of the lip skin widely suggests that CTs are not present but their regular use in the affective behaviour of lip-to-lip contact between individuals suggests otherwise. By applying the standardised psychophysical stroking approach to the lip, cheek and mucosa the classic psychophysical inverted U associated with CT like behavioural responses to touch was found on the cheek where CTs are known to be present as well as on the lower lip. This CT like response on the lip warrants further detailed investigation. Serotonin (5-HT) is widely associated with hedonic experiences and reduced 5-HT levels are a linked with depression and anhedonia. 5-HT is also a candidate neurotransmitter associated with taste transduction. Chapter 6 describes an acute tryptophan depletion (ATD) study that examined the peripheral and central effect of reduced 5-HT levels on taste perception. The primary findings highlight that tryptophan levels do not effect sweet, sour, salt and bitter taste detection ability. A significant difference in bitter taste intensity and pleasantness was identified with tryptophan depletion increasing the taste intensity and decreasing bitter pleasantness at suprathreshold concentration. An effect of taster status was identified in bitter intensity ratings with tolerant-tasters reporting a greater intensity of sensation in the tryptophan depletion session than in the control. During the course of the experimental phase of this thesis, it became clear that describing oral sensations was a difficult task. When asked to describe how sensations felt within their mouth in chapter 4, participants were unable to find words to describe sensations. Therefore, the final study in chapter 7 describes the development of a candidate oral lexicon to aid in describing mouth feel and oral sensations highlighting that the approach to lexicon development previously used to develop the McGill Pain Questionnaire and the Touch Perception Task can successfully be applied to the development of an Oral Lexicon.

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Wall, Jenna L. "Young Children's Coordination of Label Extension Across the Senses." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1357918390.

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Penteado, Ana Paula Bonini. "Análise dos efeitos das variações das características do ambiente construído na percepção dos usuários." Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, 2015. http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/1943.

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A percepção consciente e inconsciente do indivíduo tem um peso determinante no conforto do usuário em relação ao ambiente construído. Quando se diz respeito à percepção humana, estudos mostram que 75% daquilo que o indivíduo percebe, referem-se ao sistema visual, 20% relaciona-se a percepção sonora e somente 5% provém dos outros sentidos, como tato e olfato. Neste sentido, o objetivo deste trabalho é mostrar como as variações das características do ambiente construído, associadas à visão e a audição, influenciam a percepção do indivíduo, traduzidas em sentimentos negativos ou positivos. Dessa maneira, será possível avaliar como as características percebidas do ambiente construído podem influenciar os usuários em relação ao ambiente. Ao perceber um ambiente, cada indivíduo o faz de maneira distinta. A pesquisa visa à identificação de como a percepção do usuário influencia a maneira de observar e sentir o ambiente e de que forma esses aspectos impactam nas características do projeto. Através da identificação de algumas características de projeto e de alguns sons relacionados com os ambientes construídos, foi elaborado um experimento composto por um questionário, contendo nove imagens e quatro sons que abrangem essas características. O questionário foi aplicado em estudantes dos cursos de Engenharia Civil e Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, nos meses de novembro e dezembro de 2014. Com a aplicação do experimento, associando as imagens e os sons, com afetos positivos e negativos da escala PANAS (Escala de Afeto Positivo e Negativo), concluiu-se que, a percepção do indivíduo em determinadas características do ambiente, proporcionam um aumento de sentimentos ligados aos afetos positivos e em outros casos, aos afetos negativos. Sendo que a variação observada foi em relação a intensidade de sentimentos de afeto negativo. Foi analisado ainda a percepção em relação aos sentimentos e as características de projeto, em relação à orientação profissional e em relação ao gênero. Através dessa pesquisa, pôde-se perceber que o uso de maior incidência de iluminação natural, a utilização de pé-direito alto, a utilização de cor “fria” são características, que para a maioria dos entrevistados, trouxeram maior conforto e sentimentos relacionados aos afetos positivos, quando comparadas às outras características.
The conscious and unconscious perception of the individual has a significant influence on the user's satisfaction with the built environment. When it comes to human perception, studies show that 75% of what the individual perceives refer to the visual system, 20% is related to sound perception and only 5% come from other senses such as touch and smell. In this sense, the objective of this work is to show how variations in built environment characteristics, associated with sight and hearing, influence the individual's perception, translated into positive or negative feelings. In this way, it will be possible to assess how the perceived characteristics of the built environment can influence users towards the environment. When perceiving an environment, each individual makes it in a distinct way. The research aims to identify how the user perception influences the way to observe and feel the environment and how these aspects impact the design features. By identifying some design features and some sounds related to the built environment, a composed experiment with a questionnaire was elaborated, contending nine images and four sounds that enclose these characteristics. The questionnaire was applied in students of the courses of Civil Engineering and Architecture and Urbanism of the Federal Technological University of the Paraná, in the months of November and December of 2014. With the application of the experiment, by associating the images and the sounds, with positive and negative affection of the PANAS Scale (Scale of Positive and Negative Affection), it was concluded that the individual's perception in certain environmental characteristics, provide increased feelings connected to the positive affects and in other cases, the negative affects. It was also analyzed the perception of the feelings and design features in relation to vocational guidance and in relation to gender. Through thisresearch, , it could be perceived which features have more impact on positive and negative feelings and which guarantee and provide comfort to the users of built environments.

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Wrigley, Paul J. "Cold thermal processing in the spinal cord." Connect to full text, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1619.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2007.
Title from title screen (viewed May 1, 2007). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Kolling Institute of Medical Research. Includes bibliographical references. Also issued in print.

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Woodward, Helen R. "Reliability of traditional neurological sensory and motor tests." Virtual Press, 1996. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1036814.

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Tests of sensory and motor function are widely used by clinicians and researchers in neurology, psychiatry, and neuropsychology. Less than perfect performance on many of these tests may be considered pathognomonic of central nervous system dysfunction. Unfortunately, differences across practitioners in specific test selection, administration procedures, and scoring criteria have resulted in inconsistencies which confound attempts to study the incidence and patterns of deficits (Adams & Victor, 1993; Glick, 1993). Although as a group psychologists favor standardized, quantitative instruments, the field has lacked a comprehensive, standardized sensory and motor battery. That psychologists have not developed such a battery may reflect the notion that pathognomonic signs are ambiguous and unstable (Buchanan & Heinrichs, 1989) and the fact that some traditional test development procedures are often inappropriate.For the Dean-Woodcock Sensory and Motor Battery, Dean and Woodcock (1994) selected measures representative of those included in the traditional neurological examination.Measures of subcortical function, unavailable in the major neuropsychological batteries, were included to allow differentiation with right hemisphere impairment.Using standard procedures for administration and scoring, this study gathered preliminary data regarding the incidence of pathognomonic signs in a normal adult population, identified items with difficulty levels likely to result in overidentification of abnormality, and estimated the interrater agreement and interrater reliability for items and tests most vulnerable to subjective interpretation. Data analysis reflected consideration of Franzen's (1989) argument that reliability can be better understood through use of multiple estimation strategies and Cicchetti's argument that data needs to be considered at "finer levels of molecular analysis" (p.621). In addition to investigating interrater agreement, this study applied generalizability theory which allows for simultaneous estimation of the relative proportion of variance contributed by multiple sources and their interactions.Results suggested adequate to excellent rater agreement and reliability (i.e., generalizability). Also, with minor modification of specific items, generalizability of items may be expected to increase. Future studies should sample from a more heterogenous general population and specific clinical populations.
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De, Kock Servaas Willem Lourens. "Music Performance Lab : architecture as a sensory conductor." Diss., Pretoria : [S.n.], 2008. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11252008-155320.

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Hagen, Noah M. "Mentalizing and Synesthesia: Investigations into the Interactions." Ohio : Ohio University, 2009. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1250263868.

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Smuts, Lyn. "The visualization of sound : an investigation into the interplay of the senses in artmaking." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/905.

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Magner, Jeremy. "The machines of perception." Thesis, Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24630.

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Westerman, Roderick A. "Studies on the functions of nociceptive afferents in the skin and their microvascular interactions /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1994. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09MD/09mdw527.pdf.

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Temple, Elizabeth Clare. "Aspects of the development of the sense of taste in humans /." View thesis View thesis, 1999. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030603.074427/index.html.

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Strosnider, Deborah Vivian 1958. "AN EXPLORATION OF PERCEPTIONS OF PAIN IN CHILDREN WITH LEUKEMIA." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/275484.

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Arceneaux, Janet Marie. "Developmental and gender differences in neurological sensory and motor functioning." Virtual Press, 1995. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1001177.

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The purpose of the study was to determine if developmental differences existed between two age groups of children on a standardized measure of sensory and motor functions. Gender differences were also examined, as well as the gender-age interaction.Subjects were 119 normal children (55 males and 64 females). Classification of subjects into one of the two groups was based on age. Group 1 subjects ranged in age from 48 through 95 months (4 through 7 years), and Group 2 subjects ranged from 96 months ranged 167 months (8 through 13 years).The multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) indicated a significant main effect for age. The main effect for gender, and the age by gender interaction was not significant. A univariate analysis of variance was computed for age on each measure and indicated that only Visual Confrontation was not significant. Implications of these findings are discussed.
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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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Kinnear, Marise. "Sensory perception of different acidulants in flavoured sports drinks." Diss., Pretoria ; [s.n.], 2008. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-01292009-171015.

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Romero, Carolina. "Making sense of word senses : evidence for a lexical ambiguity continuum." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=81510.

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Polysemy refers to word forms that have semantically related or overlapping meanings. Studies of polysemy are few in number and contradictory. Some find differences between polysemy and homonymy (Frazier & Rayner, 1990); others find similarities (Klein & Murphy, 2001). Here, polysemous words independently rated to have low, moderate, or high semantic overlap of their distinct meanings, were studied using the methods of Klein & Murphy. Participants judged the sensicality of phrases consisting of a modifier and a polysemous word as a function of a cooperating, conflicting, or neutral context. Low and moderate-overlap words elicited slower judgments than high-overlap words, and were facilitated by a cooperating context. In contrast, high-overlap words were uniformly fast and did not differ as function of context. Thus, low- and moderate-overlap polysemous words behave similarly to homonyms, whereas high-overlap words do not. This is taken as support for a lexical ambiguity continuum delimited by homonymy and polysemy, without precise boundaries between the two.

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Gabriele, Leslie. "Insecurely Attached Adults Exploring the Intention, Emotion, and Sensation of Collaborative, Nurturing Touch." Thesis, Saybrook University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10275774.

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The literature shows that sensitive and responsive parental care has been associated with secure attachment, whereas a deficit of sensitive and responsive care has been associated with insecure attachment. This study proposed that insecurely attached adults might benefit from practicing self-awareness, communication, and collaboration while learning to provide and receive sensitive and responsive touch. In this study, six participants were paired as dyads. Each dyad met with the researcher for a series of three-hour sessions to practice skills associated with secure attachment. The first research question, “What were participants’ presenting issues related to touch?” was examined during an initial one-on-one interview with each participant using a semi-structured interview, the Adult Attachment Projective Picture System (AAP; George & West, 2012), the Experiences in Close Relationships Scale—Modified (ECR-M16, Lo et al., 2009), and the Tactile Nurturance Scale (Gupta & Schork, 1995). The second research question, “What skills did participants develop through collaborative interaction during dyadic sessions?” was answered using recorded data from individual, semi-structured, concluding interviews and conversations during two activity sessions with the first dyad and three activity sessions with the second, then third dyad. During these sessions, participants practiced the following skills: self- awareness of thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations; development and communication of intention before interactions; communication of thoughts, emotions, and sensations before and after touch; request permission and form agreements before touch; collaborate while providing and receiving touch that consisted of facial massage, rocking, scalp massage, and compressing torso, legs, and arms. Content analysis of transcriptions of audio recordings of preliminary and concluding interviews and conversations before, during, and after the sessions revealed participants were able to overcome presenting issues that included hesitation and self- consciousness to practice self-awareness, intentionality, and collaboration and to develop skills associated with providing and receiving respectful and empathetic touch. In addition, participants reported skills learned during the study were later applied with positive results in their personal relationships. These findings suggest that interpersonal skills associated with secure attachment can be taught to motivated insecurely attached adults. Further research is needed to learn more about the development of secure attachment skills for adults.

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