Search for dissertations about: "group performance"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 1047 swedish dissertations containing the words group performance.

2. 1. Nativelike Performance : A Corpus Study of Pragmatic Markers, Repair and Repetition in Native and Non-native English Speech

   Author : Annika Denke; Britt Erman; Anna-Brita Stenström; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; fluency; oral presentations; Swedish and native speakers of English; pragmatic markers; repair; repetition; nativelike communicative performance; English language; Engelska språket;

   Abstract : This is a corpus study of native (N) and non-native (NN) communicative performance in speech as realised through pragmatic markers, repair and repetition. The concept of fluency and what it encompasses is discussed in the section dealing with the theoretical background of the study. READ MORE

4. 2. Putting the Singing Voice on the Map : Towards Improving the Quantitative Evaluation of Voice Status in Professional Female Singers

   Author : Anick Lamarche; Sten Ternström; Thomas Cleveland; KTH; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Voice Range Profile-Phonetogram-Singing voice-Performance-Clinical assessment-health-voice disorder-self-perception-proprioceptive feedback; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

   Abstract : Diagnostic and evaluative methods used in voice care are mostly designedfor the speaking voice, and are not necessarily directly applicable to thesinging voice. This thesis investigated the possibilities of fine tuning, improvingand quantifying the voice status assessment of the singer, focusingespecially on the Western operatic female voice. READ MORE

5. 3. Group membership and eyewitness testimony

   Author : Torun Lindholm; Jerry Shaw; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Eyewitness testimony; group membership; intergroup biases; memory performance; psykologi; Psychology;

   Abstract : The present thesis includes four empirical studies that explore whether eyewitness accounts of a violent crime may be affected by factors related to the group membership of witness, perpetrator, and victim.Study 1 investigates how an immigrant and a Swedish perpetrator of a simulated, violent robbery are evaluated and remembered by immigrant and Swedish witnesses. READ MORE

6. 4. Studies on Fantasmical Anatomies

   Author : Anne Juren; André Lepecki; Sandra Noeth; Victoria Perez Royo; Stockholms konstnärliga högskola; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Choreography; Feldenkrais Method®; anatomy; fantasmical; speculative gestures; somatic practices; dislocation; dissection; dissociation; treatment; operation; fragmentation; blind gaze; non-expression; dance; movement; language; poetry; voice; touch; Foley; psychoanalysis; crisis; encounter; critical awareness; sensorial transference; co-regulation; body proxy; trans-interiority; symptom; practitioner; patient; session; lesson; L’Effet-Mère; mother tongue; very too close; very too far; diffraction; dérive drift ; Utbildning på forskarnivå i performativa och mediala praktiker; Third-Cycle Studies in Performative and Mediated Practices;

   Abstract : Studies on Fantasmical Anatomies is an ongoing transdisciplinary artistic research, which encompasses the spectrum of experiences and practices that I have developed as a choreographer, dancer and Feldenkrais practitioner. My interest in anatomy and somatic practices grew out of multiple shoulder dislocations. READ MORE

7. 5. Mind your Language, All Right? Performance-dependent neural patterns of language

   Author : Helene van Ettinger-Veenstra; Maria Engström; Peter Lundberg; Thomas Karlsson; Anita McAllister; Karsten Specht; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Language ability; performance; fMRI; functional magnetic resonance imaging; Broca; Wernicke; temporal lobe; inferior frontal gyrus; reading; fluency; lateralization; lateralisation; right hemisphere; performance-dependent; neural activation;

   Abstract : The main aim of this dissertation was to investigate the difference in neural language patternsrelated to language ability in healthy adults. The focus lies on unraveling the contributions of theright‐hemispheric homologues to Broca’s area in the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and Wernicke’s areain the posterior temporal and inferior parietal lobes. READ MORE