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Dialoghi riflessivi fra musica, movimento e tecnologia
No full textNel Capitolo 10, Marina Maffioli, Filomena Anelli e Anna Rita Addessi, propongono delle attività di improvvisazione da svolgere con l’aiuto del MIROR-Impro sia con il suono sia con il movimento. Il capitolo quindi presenta una serie di suggerimenti per l’insegnante per poter utilizzare il MIROR-Impro in maniera originale sia per l’improvvisazione musicale sia per l’improvvisazione motoria. Le attività sono pensate per bambini di 6-10 anni, ma con piccole varianti possono essere proposte anche a bambini più piccoli e possono essere svolte sia nella scuola pubblica, sia nelle scuole di danza, sia nelle scuole di musica nelle quali ci sia interesse a lavorare sul rapporto tra musica e movimento. Ogni attività prevede che vi sia un bambino che suona dialogando con il software MIROR-Impro e uno o più bambini che danzano o interpretano la musica ascoltata attraverso il movimento. La risposta con il movimento avviene sia durante la proposta musicale, sia durante la risposta “riflessiva” del MIROR-Impro. Quindi, mentre normalmente nelle attività di danza è l’adulto che suona il pianoforte guidando i bambini, l’originalità della proposta presentata in questo capitolo è che il movimento dei bambini è guidato, a turno, da uno degli altri bambini che suona la tastiera con il MIROR-Impro e dal sistema stesso. Le autrici discutono il rapporto tra suono e movimento alla luce del paradigma di interazione riflessiva e delle ricerche condotte nell’ambito del progetto MIROR su musica e movimento, arrivando ad ipotizzare che quando i bambini si muovono o ballano ascoltando le risposte “riflessive” del MIROR-Impro, si comporterebbero come specchi “motori” della risposta musicale del sistema, aggiungendo in tal modo il canale motorio all’interno dell'interazione bambino-macchina. Questo campo di studio, e la sua applicazione nelle scienze dell'educazione, è ancora in gran parte inesplorato, anche nell’educazione musicale e nell’educazione motoria. Le attività descritte favoriscono l’apprendimento attraverso il collaborative learning, il problem solving e il gioco di ruoli, e sono proposte ai bambini attraverso dispositivi verbali e musicali che suggeriscono contesti immaginifici e simbolici all’interno dei quali i bambini sono messi nelle condizioni di esplorare e creare suoni e movimenti originali
Prisms for timing better: A review on application of prism adaptation on temporal domain
No full textThe possibility to induce a transient modulation of visuo-spatial attention boosted so far the implementation of the prism adaptation in a variety of domains. This sensorimotor technique has been adopted to investigate the neural plasticity in neurologically healthy individuals, as well as to ameliorate deficit of visuo-spatial attention (which characterizes neglect patients' performance). We review here evidence about a new promising application of prisms in exploring how the human brain represents the subjective time flow on a spatially oriented “mental time line”. Converging observations in healthy individuals suggest that altering spatial attention processing via prism adaptation can influence the spatial representation of time. These modulatory effects are generalizable to different aspects of time, such as the abilities to estimate time duration and to mentally travel in time. Furthermore, data from brain damaged patients, with a special focus on right brain-damaged patients with neglect, indicate that prismatic procedure ameliorates temporal deficits, hence paving the way to novel clinical applications. We conclude by discussing the possible cognitive mechanisms and neural circuits of the prism adaptation effects on time
The carry-over effect of competition in task-sharing: Evidence from the joint Simon task
No full textThe Simon effect, that is the advantage of the spatial correspondence between stimulus and response locations when stimulus location is a task-irrelevant dimension, occurs even when the task is performed together by two participants, each performing a go/no-go task. Previous studies showed that this joint Simon effect, considered by some authors as a measure of self-other integration, does not emerge when during task performance co-actors are required to compete. The present study investigated whether and for how long competition experienced during joint performance of one task can affect performance in a following joint Simon task. In two experiments, we required pairs of participants to perform together a social Simon task, before and after jointly performing together an unrelated non-spatial task (the Eriksen flanker task). In Experiment 1, participants always performed the joint Simon task under neutral instructions, before and after performing the joint flanker task in which they were explicitly required either to cooperate with (i.e., cooperative condition) or to compete against a co-actor (i.e., competitive condition). In Experiment 2, they were required to compete during the joint flanker task and to cooperate during the subsequent joint Simon task. Competition experienced in one task affected the way the subsequent joint task was performed, as revealed by the lack of the joint Simon effect, even though, during the Simon task participants were not required to compete (Experiment 1). However, prior competition no longer affected subsequent performance if a new goal that created positive interdependence between the two agents was introduced (Experiment 2). These results suggest that the emergence of the joint Simon effect is significantly influenced by how the goals of the co-acting individuals are related, with the effect of competition extending beyond the specific competitive setting and affecting subsequent interactions
La creatività motoria dei bambini in ambienti musicali “riflessivi”. Uno studio sperimentale con il test Thinking Creatively in Action and Movement (TCAM) e la Laban Movement Analysis
No full textQuesto articolo introduce uno studio sperimentale sulla creatività motoria dei bambini e la piattaforma MIROR, una piattaforma implementata nell’ambito del progetto europeo MIROR-Musical Interaction Relying On Reflexion (ICT-FP7) basata sulle tecnologie “riflessive”. Il paradigma dell'interazione riflessiva si riferisce a un peculiare tipo di interazione uomo-macchina basato sul meccanismo di ripetizione e variazione. In questo studio è stata utilizzata una delle applicazioni riflessive della piattaforma MIROR, il MIROR-Impro, in grado di imitare gli stili dell'utente che suona uno strumento musicale. Secondo una prospettiva ispirata all’embodied cognition, il nostro obiettivo è stato quello di indagare se l'interazione riflessiva con il MIROR-Impro possa migliorare i processi creativi e le capacità dei bambini di improvvisare con il movimento. Lo studio è stato condotto in Italia in due classi del primo ciclo di una scuola primaria pubblica, con 47 bambini di 7 e 8 anni, divisi in due gruppi: gruppo sperimentale (23 bambini) e gruppo di controllo (24 bambini). Entrambi i gruppi hanno preso parte a diverse attività musicali e di movimento, utilizzando una tastiera (gruppo di controllo) o una tastiera collegata al MIROR-Impro (gruppo sperimentale). Prima e dopo le attività, abbiamo misurato la creatività motoria dei bambini avvalendoci del test Thinking Creatively in Action and Movement (TCAM), sviluppato da Paul Torrance. Il gruppo di controllo e il gruppo sperimentale non hanno evidenziato risultati diversi al test TCAM eseguito prima delle attività, mentre dopo le attività è emersa una differenza significativa tra i due gruppi. In particolare, e in linea con la nostra ipotesi, c'è stato un aumento dei punteggi di creatività del gruppo sperimentale, che aveva svolto attività con il sistema riflessivo MIROR-Impro, rispetto al gruppo di controllo
Walking boosts your performance in making additions and subtractions
No full textreviousresearchdemonstratesthattheprocessingofspatialinformationandnumericalmagnitudearestrictlyinterwoven.Recentstudiesalsoprovideconvergingevidencethatnumberprocessingisinfluencedbybodymovements.Inthepresentstudywefurtherinvestigatethisissuebyfocusingonwhetherandhowmotionsexperiencedwiththewholebodycaninfluencearithmeticalcalculations.Weaskedparticipantstomakeadditionsorsubtractionswhileexperiencingleftwardandrightwardmotions.Datarevealedtheemergenceofacongruencyeffectbetweentheorientationinferredbythetypeofarithmeticalcalculationsandthetypeofmotionsexperiencedalonganhorizontalaxis
Age-Related Effects on Future Mental Time Travel
No full textMental time travel (MTT), the ability to travel mentally back and forward in time in order to reexperience past events and preexperience future events, is crucial in human cognition. As we move along life, MTT may be changed accordingly. However, the relation between re- and preexperiencing along the lifespan is still not clear. Here, young and older adults underwent a psychophysical paradigm assessing two different components of MTT: self-projection, which is the ability to project the self towards a past or a future location of the mental time line, and self-reference, which is the ability to determine whether events are located in the past or future in reference to that given self-location. Aged individuals performed worse in both self-projection to the future and self-reference to future events compared to young individuals. In addition, aging decreased older adults’ preference for personal compared to nonpersonal events. These results demonstrate the impact of MTT and self-processing on subjective time processing in healthy aging. Changes in memory functions in aged people may therefore be related not only to memory per se, but also to the relations of memory and self
Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-being Research
No full textField Editor and Editorial Board Member.
Entries under Filomena Maggino's responsibilities:
- Conceptual design of indicators (author: F. Maggino),
- Indicator Development and Construction (author: F. Maggino),
- Data Representation (authors: F. Maggino & M. Trapani),
- Guttman Scale (author: F. Maggino),
- Indicator development and construction (author: F. Maggino),
- Multidimensional Analysis (authors: F. Maggino & M. Fattore),
- Multivariate Statistical Analysis (authors: F. Maggino & M. Fattore),
- Partially Ordered Set (author: M. Fattore),
- Questionnaire Design (author: W. Saris),
- Semantic Differential (author: F. Maggino),
- Subjective Indicators (author: A. Michalos),
- Subjective Weighting (author: K. Land),
- Systems of Indicators (author: H-H. Noll),
- Weighting Schemes (author: K. Land).
The Encyclopedia:
- represents the first comprehensive reference work on scientific and other scholarly research on the quality of life
- covers the subject of quality-of-life from a multi disciplinary perspective
- includes the behavioral and social sciences as well as health and healthcare
Encyclopedia's Keywords: Happiness - Health - Patient-reported outcomes research - Positive Psychology - Psychology - QOL - Quality of Life Research - Social Indicators - Sociology - Spirituality - Wealth - Welfare - Wellbeing
Encyclopedia's related subjects: Economics - Medicine - Psychology - Well-Bein
Erratum: Lack of immunity against rubella among Italian young adults. [BMC Infect Dis., 17, (2017) (199)] Doi: 10.1186/s12879-017-2295-y
No full textAfter publication of this article [1], the authors noted that the given names and family names of all authors had been inverted, and are therefore incorrect in the original article. In the original article, the author names appear as the following: Gallone Maria Serena, Gallone Maria Filomena, Larocca Angela Maria Vittoria, Germinario Cinzia and Tafuri Silvio. However, this is incorrect, and the author names should appear as per the below: Maria Serena Gallone, Maria Filomena Gallone, Angela Maria Vittoria Larocca, Cinzia Germinario, Silvio Tafuri. The author names have been corrected in the author list and the citation for this Erratum
[Poesia] Poema de Filomena Malva
No full textA poem by Filomena Malva About the author: Born in Luanda, on December 6, 1952. At the age of six months, she moved to Sá da Bandeira, now Lubango, where she completed her primary and secondary studies, beginning her studies at the Faculty of Letters of University of Luanda. At the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra, she completed her degree in History, as well as his postgraduate degree in "Portuguese expansion in the Atlantic world". She pursued her professional activity as a History teacher. Regarding scientific publications, In 1996, the unpublished work O retábulo-mor da capela de Nossa Senhora da Paz da Constantina. In 2015, she published the lyric poetry work entitled Aspirar a polpa do absoluto, with the review of Carmen Lucia Tindó Secco, whose edition is sold out. She participated in the blog MyAngola / MinhaAngola with poetic words and comments and, yet in the scope of the blog, was invited to write a foreword to the poetic works Mentes perversas e outras conversas, by Ana Paula Lavado, and Silêncios de outono, by Graça Arrimar, respectively in Porto and in Coimbra.Un poema de Filomena Malva Sobre la autora: Nacida en Luanda el 6 de diciembre de 1952. Con 6 meses de edad, se trasladó a Sá da Bandeira, actual Lubango, donde completó sus estudios de primaria y secundaria, a partir de la educación superior en la Facultad de Artes, Universidad de Luanda. En la Facultad de Artes de la Universidad de Coimbra concluyó un grado en Historia, así como estudios de postgrado en “La expansión portuguesa en el mundo atlántico”. Ejerció su carrera profesional como maestra de Historia. No lo que se refiere a las publicaciones científicas, se publicó, en 1996, la obra inédita O retábulo-mor da capela de Nossa Senhora da Paz Constantina. Em 2015 publicó el trabajo de la lírica titulada Aspirar à Polpa de Tudo -- con la opinión de Carmen Lucia Tindó Secco --, cuya edición está agotada. Participado en el proyecto MyAngola/MinhaAngola blog con palabras poéticas y comentarios y, en virtud de que, fue invitada a presentar la obra poética Mentes perversas e outras conversações de Ana Paula Lavado, y Silêncios de outono, de Graça Arrimar, respectivamente en Porto y Coimbra.Poema de Filomena Malva. Sobre a autora: Nasceu em Luanda, a 6 de dezembro de 1952. Com 6 meses de idade, foi viver para Sá da Bandeira, atual Lubango, onde concluiu os seus estudos primários e liceais, iniciando o ensino superior na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Luanda. Na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra concluiu a licenciatura em História, assim como a pós-graduação em “A expansão portuguesa no mundo atlântico”.Exerceu a sua atividade profissional enquanto docente de História.No que concerne a publicações científicas, foi publicada, em 1996, a obra inédita O retábulo-mor da capela de Nossa Senhora da Paz da Constantina. Em 2015 publicou a obra de poesia lírica intitulada Aspirar a polpa do absoluto, com parecer de Carmen Lucia Tindó Secco, cuja edição está esgotada. Participou, no blogue do projeto MyAngola/MinhaAngola, com palavras poéticas e comentários e, no âmbito do mesmo, foi convidada para apresentar as obras poéticas Mentes perversas e outras conversas, de Ana Paula Lavado, e Silêncios de outono, de Graça Arrimar, respectivamente no Porto e em Coimbra
Effects of spatial attention on mental time travel in patients with neglect
No full textNumerous studies agree that time is represented in spatial terms in the brain. Here we investigate how a deficit in orienting attention in space influences the ability to mentally travel in time, that is to recall the past and anticipate the future. Right brain-damaged patients, with (RBD-N+) and without neglect (RBD-N-), and healthy controls (HC) were subjected to a Mental Time Travel (MTT) task. Participants were asked to project themselves in time to past, present or future (i.e., self-projection) and, for each self-projection, to judge whether events were located relatively in the past or the future (i.e., self-reference). The MTT-task was performed before and after a manipulation, through prismatic adaptation (PA), inducing a leftward shift of spatial attention. Before PA, RBD-N+ were slower for future than for past events, whereas RBD-N- and HC responded similarly to past and future events. A leftward shift of spatial attention by PA reduced the difference in past/future processing in RBD-N+ and fastened RBD-N- and HC's response to past events. Assuming that time concepts, such as past/future, are coded with a left-to-right order on a mental time line (MTL), a recursive search of future-events can explain neglect patients' performance. Improvement of the spatial deficit following PA reduces the recursive search of future events on the rightmost part of the MTL, facilitating exploration of past events on the leftmost part of the MTL, finally favoring the correct location of past and future events. In addition, the study of the anatomical correlates of the temporal deficit in mental time travel through voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping showed a correlation with a lesion located in the insula and in the thalamus. These findings provide new insights about the inter-relations of space and time, and can pave the way to a procedure to rehabilitate a deficit in these cognitive domains
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