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"Humanity invested with a new form": the Post Office and the Hospital in Household Words c.1850
Full text linkThis essay explores some of the techniques employed to present new infrastructural formations to a general reading public through close examination of writings about the postal system and the hospital in Dickens’s popular general interest magazine, Household Words. Reading these articles against Marc Augé’s account of late twentieth-century ‘supermodernity’, I argue that the newly extended reach of such systems is presented as a way out of chaotic overabundances of detail, especially in busy urban environments, as well as a means to acquire a greater mastery over the world. Yet at the same time, these articles also seek to reform the role of the individual in relation to these systems, subjugating individual agency to the primacy of systemic control. This essay aims to deepen our understanding of the reception and portrayal of infrastructural industrialisation in Household Words specifically, and the periodical press more broadly, in the years immediately following the Great Exhibition
The Kinematic Profiling within Object Location and Line Drawing Tasks by Visuo-Spatial Neglect Subjects
No full textLittérature et psychologie sociale. L'exemple de l'identité sexuelle
No full textWetherell Margaret, Potter Jonathan, Stringer Peter, Turbiaux Marcel, Clignet Rémi. Littérature et psychologie sociale. L'exemple de l'identité sexuelle. In: Bulletin de psychologie, tome 46 n°410, 1993. Psychologie de l'art. Tome I. pp. 353-366
Automated extraction of image segments from clinically diagnostic hand-drawn geometric shapes
No full textSimple geometric shape drawing tasks are commonly used to diagnose and monitor patient performance for a range of clinical and neuropsychological conditions. Assessment relies upon observing the presence of components within a drawn image. Application of assessment criteria has been shown to vary amongst trained raters. An algorithm is presented to automatically extract the components from the static image of shape drawing responses. Specifically, images taken from a group of patients with visuo-spatial neglect and control subjects show the accurate identification of horizontal, vertical and diagonal components. Examples of performance metrics based on the features extracted from the component analysis show clear differences between neglect and control responses which are able to detect differences in performance more sensitive to the standard number of component assessment
Potter, Jonathan, and Margaret Wetherell, Discourse and Social Psychology: Beyond Attitudes and Behavior. London: Sage, 1987.
No full textPresents a multi-faceted discussion of discourse analysis as a research technique
Assessing visuo-spatial neglect through feature selection from shape drawing performance and sequence analysis
No full textFeature-based assessment of visuo-spatial neglect patients using hand-drawing tasks
No full textVisuo-spatial neglect (VSN) is a post-stroke condition in which a patient fails to respond to stimuli on one side of the visual field. Using an established pencil-and-paper-based method for the assessment of VSN (the Rivermead Behavioural Inattention Test) as a reference, a battery of computer-based hand-drawing tests is developed and shown to be effective in distinguishing between stroke subjects with and without neglect. The novel approach adopts measurements both of the outcome and the process by which the drawing tasks are executed. This approach provides a novel diagnostic capability which results in increased test sensitivity, a more objective assessment and a reduction in overall evaluation time. The paper describes the development of a binary assessment system using the computer-based acquisition and analysis of task data alongside feature selection techniques to maximise performance
Novel rule-based static and dynamic feature extraction from figure copying tasks for the detection of visuo-spatial neglect
No full textA series of static rule-based assessment criteria and dynamic constructional features are defined and used to analyse the hand-drawn responses from a geometric figure copying task. Assessment subjectivity is removed by the algorithmic definition of analysis criteria and test diagnostic sensitivity to the condition of visuo-spatial neglect is increased through the analysis of the novel dynamic features. This sensitivity increase is demonstrated by the identification of constructional performance deficits in test responses which appear 'normal' by conventional static assessment. The investigation is carried out with a population of stroke patients
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