1,721,022 research outputs found
Epigrafi greche dell'Italia bizantina (VII-XI secolo)
Full text linkAndré Guillou, a cui va il merito di aver sistematicamente accorpato ed esaminato nel suo Recueil des inscriptions grecques médiévales d’Italie la maggior parte delle iscrizioni che si riferiscono al periodo della dominazione bizantina o più propriamente roméa d’Italia, ha offerto attraverso questo ampio corpus un apporto fondamentale all’epigrafia delle aree provinciali dell’Impero insieme alle raccolte di iscrizioni e ai contributi pubblicati nelle riviste specialistiche che consentono di applicare ai reperti epigrafici un’indagine sistematica sul piano comparativo. Il presente studio, comprendente un’indagine di tipo storico e filologico, nonché un’analisi grafica, si rivolge ad alcune significative testimonianze epigrafiche dei ceti dirigenti dell’amministrazione bizantina d’Italia, in un periodo compreso fra l’età di Eraclio (610-641) a quella di Basilio II (976-1025), che hanno suscitato un particolare interesse per l’elevato apporto ideologico-politico e per la loro dislocazione territoriale, che ci proietta nell’ampio panorama storico e culturale dei contesti geopolitici dell’Esarcato, dei Ducati e del Catepanato d’Italia. Tali testimonianze unitamente alle tracce di munificenza lasciate dai funzionari di rango più o meno elevato dell’amministrazione imperiale contribuiscono a chiarire più di un aspetto della storia socio-culturale dell’Occidente bizantino
- NIKA H TYXH. Scritture epigrafiche e ideologia politica nell’Italia bizantina
No full textIl contributo analizza alcune testimonianze epigrafiche dell'Italia bizantina con una particolare attenzione alla valenza simbolica e all'ideologia politica ad esse connessa fra VII e XI secolo
- Tracce della presenza bizantina nella toponomastica dei territori dell’Esarcato e della Pentapoli fra VII e XIII secolo
No full textLo studio si propone di accertare la persistenza di culti connessi al tema delle terre militari e di verificare la continuità delle titolature del sistema amministrativo bizantino nel territorio dell'Esarcato e della Pentapoli sopravvissute oltre all'VIII secolo
Culti, poteri e società nella Valle del Conca fra VI e XI secolo
No full textIl contributo verte sulle tracce della dominazione bizantina nel territorio del Riminese fra VI e XI secolo testimoniate in particolare dalla presenza dalla persistenza dei culti di matrice romano-orientale
Moving home during childhood: is it harmful?
No full textApproximately 50 per cent of children in Scotland move home in their first 10 years of life. Many families move home when they have young children; this could be because of the need for larger housing; more suitable residential areas; parental separation; or precarious housing situations, such as renting. These moves may affect children’s social, emotional and cognitive development. In this policy briefing, we report quantitative evidence from a cohort of children born in the early 2000s collected in the ‘Growing Up in Scotland’ study. The findings indicate that children that move home tend to fare worse in terms of their socio-emotional development. This is particularly true if they move more than once. Evidence on cognitive achievement is more mixed, with children who move more faring worse at age five. But by age 10, there seems to be no difference in cognitive achievement between children who have moved and children who have not. A large part of the negative effect of moving home is explained by the lower socio-economic backgrounds of the families who move more frequently. Other life experiences which trigger a move, such as parental separation, are also important. The findings show, however, that over and above the effect of social background and life experiences of mobile children, frequent moves do seem to have a detrimental impact on children’s development
Susceptibility to the rubber hand illusion does not tell the whole body-awareness story
No full textThe rubber hand illusion (RHI) is an enigmatic illusion that creates a feeling of owning an artificial limb. Enthusiasts of this paradigm assert that it operationalizes bodily self-awareness, but there are reasons to doubt such a clear link. Because little is known about other functional contributions to the RHI, including effects of context-dependent visual processing and cognitive control or the ability to resolve intermodal conflict, we carried out two complementary experiments. In the first, we examined the relationships between the RHI and (1) body awareness, as assessed by the Body Perception Questionnaire (BPQ); (2) context-dependent visual processing, as assessed by the rod-and-frame test (RFT); and (3) conflict resolution, as assessed by the Stroop test. We found a significant positive correlation between the RHI-associated proprioceptive drift and context-dependent visual processing on the RFT, but not between the RHI and body awareness on the BPQ. In the second experiment,
Embodying the self: effects of yoga on social behavior
No full textYoga is an ancient method, which employs physical exercises to achieve physical and mental health. Advanced Yoga practitioners claim increased inner focus, compassion and transcended self-awareness. Yet, these claims have not been properly addressed by cognitive neuroscience. We sought to test whether
Yoga practice alters bodily self-awareness and self-transcendence,
such possible modulations correlate with the Yoga experience,
an embodied lifestyle might affect social behavior.
We focused on Asthanga Yoga (AY), a branch of Hatha Yoga. AY represents a particularly body-related type of Yoga, which is characterized by the synchronization of a fixed series of postures with the breath. It is taught in a supervised self-practice without verbal instruction by the teacher and visual learning/feedback (i.e., no mirrors in the room, gaze is focused)
Influenza dello stile cognitivo e della personalità sull'attenzione a sè e agli altri: studio in esperti di Asthanga Yoga.
No full textNel test del Rod and Frame si misurano gli effetti del contesto visivo sulla percezione della verticale visiva soggettiva (VVS) valutando l’errore compiuto nell’allineare un marker visivo, (posto entro una cornice quadrata) alla verticale gravitazionale. Esperti motori in discipline che richiedono grande consapevolezza e controllo del corpo (ad esempio ginnasti) effettuano la stima della VVS senza essere influenzati da indizi ambientali e sono pertanto definiti campo indipendenti (CI). Nel presente studio abbiamo esplorato se una disciplina tesa al controllo del corpo possa essere in grado di alterare la consapevolezza corporea e la sua relazione con stili cognitivi e personologici. Metodi: La CI è stata misurata in un campione di praticanti di Asthanga Yoga (AY) e uno di soggetti senza esperienza in discipline yogiche. Abbiamo raccolto inoltre misure relative all’autotrascendenza, altruismo e consapevolezza corporea per poi analizzarne le relazioni esistenti. Risultati: Il gruppo AY ha mostrato più accuratezza nella stima della VVS e punteggi di autotrascendenza significativamente maggiori che, solo in questo gruppo, correlano negativamente con la strategia utilizzata nel valutare la VVS. Nel gruppo AY abbiamo rilevato che maggiore è l’assiduità e l’abilità nella pratica della disciplina, maggiore è la consapevolezza corporea. La consapevoleza corporea e l’altruismo risultano essere negativamente correlati nel gruppo AY, ma non nel gruppo di controllo. Conclusioni: La pratica assidua di una disciplina che focalizza l’attenzione sul corpo tende ad aumentare l’attenzione su noi stessi, che però potrebbe renderci meno disponibili alle necessità altrui. Inoltre, una maggiore autotrascendenza potrebbe aiutare ad attuare strategie che aumentino l’attenzione ai segnali provenienti dal corpo e consentano di ignorare segnali visivi esterni potenzialmente distraenti
Yoga practice and body-related sensory conflict monitoring
No full textWe tested the hypothesis that non-visual physical practice may alter the representation and the awareness of one’s own body by exploring the impact of Ashtanga Yoga (AY) on a number of body-related perceptual tasks. AY is a unique style of yoga that focuses on the non-visual experience of the body in space where practitioners gain a better sense of body proprioception in order to correctly execute the yoga postures. To measure different indexes of body representations, we tested AY and non yoga participants using behavioural tests tapping the ability to use one's own body representation to solve body-related perceptual conflicts like those involved in the Rod and Frame Test (RFT) and the Rubber Hand Illusion (RHI). We investigated also whether Ashtanga Yoga practice alters visual body/action representations by testing participants on a body form/identity discrimination task. Furthermore we used personality scales in order to find any correlation between the performance on behavioral tests and personality changes: Self-transcendence (TCI), Interoceptive Awareness (BPQ), Empathy IRI (Empathetic Concern & Perspective taking scales), Self-report Altruism scale and TCI (Cooperativeness scales), Interference-Inhibition (Stroop Test). We found that yogis performed better in the assessment of verticality, either in tilted and not tilted frame conditions in the RFT; advanced practitioners claim increased concentration, inner focus, increased self-awareness and self-transcendence but do not show higher self-interoceptive awareness compared to non-yogis. Yoga practice does not alter visual body or embodied representations that are activated when viewing other people’s body/actions
Interactions between body and social awareness in yoga
No full textBACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: Bodily processes have been intimately linked to social-cognitive and affective functions, such as compassion and empathy. Yet, little is known about how awareness of bodily processes influences social awareness and vice versa, especially in nonobservational but experiential investigations. This study investigated the relationship between psychometrically reported body and social awareness (including altruism, empathy, perspective-taking, and compassion) in 90 yoga and yoga-/mediation-naive control participants. In modern postural yoga, advanced practitioners claim both increased compassion and inner focus. METHODS: Multiple regression analyses were conducted to predict (1) the level of yoga practice from body awareness and social awareness skills in the yoga group and (2) body awareness from social skills in both groups. RESULTS: Body awareness and compassion were significant positive and independent predictors of yoga expertise. This finding supports practitioners' anecdotal claims but also implies that both functions tap into different aspects of yoga expertise. When body awareness was predicted, altruism emerged as a significant negative predictor in the yoga group (but not control group) as a function of yoga practice. CONCLUSION: These results might compellingly suggest that, despite high compassion, heightened bodily self-awareness might increase a self-centred perspective and limit altruistic acts in advanced yoga practitioner
- …
