Search for dissertations about: "embodied experience"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 89 swedish dissertations containing the words embodied experience.
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6. Mental Imagery in the Experience of Literary Narrative : Views from Embodied Cognition
Abstract : Defined as vicarious sensorimotor experiencing, mental imagery is a powerful source of aesthetic enjoyment in everyday life and, reportedly, one of the commonest things readers remember about literary narratives in the long term. Furthermore, it is positively correlated with other dimensions of reader response, most notably with emotion. READ MORE
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7. Minding the Body : Interacting socially through embodied action
Abstract : This dissertation clarifies the role and relevance of the body in social interaction and cognition from an embodied cognitive science perspective. Theories of embodied cognition have during the past two decades offered a radical shift in explanations of the human mind, from traditional computationalism which considers cognition in terms of internal symbolic representations and computational processes, to emphasizing the way cognition is shaped by the body and its sensorimotor interaction with the surrounding social and material world. READ MORE
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8. Varieties of Supernatural Experience : the Case of High-Functioning Autism
Abstract : It is argued in the cognitive science of religion (CSR) that the empathic ability to ‘mindread’ others underpins the experience of supernatural communication with gods, ghosts, and spirits. As autism is characterized by mentalizing difficulties, CSR scholars have expected autistic individuals would find supernatural agency incomprehensible. READ MORE
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9. The embodied experience of living with Parkinson’s disease
Abstract : People with Parkinson’s disease (PD) face many continuous limitations in daily life because of their illness. To illuminate the lived experience of PD and to evaluate ways to give individuals who suffer from PD comprehensive opportunities to come to terms with the impact that the illness has on daily living, two intervention programs and one longitudinal study were carried out. READ MORE
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10. The Sensational Body : A Spectatorial Exploration of the Experience of Bodies on Stage in Circus, Burlesque and Freak Show
Abstract : At the end of the 20th century, the three genres circus, burlesque, and freak show were revived after a long period of decline. Seemingly something in the genres still has a strong appeal to the spectators. READ MORE