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Interpretazione evolutiva della normativa sulle dissezioni autoptiche a scopo diagnostico, scientifico e didattico
No full textMeasurement Invariance of the Italian Weinstein Noise Sensitivity Scale Across Age, Gender, and Context noise
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Toward a teaching embodied-centered: perspectives of research and intervention
No full textThe aim of this study is to present experimental evidence in support of the idea that an “embodied-centered” teaching approach based on multimodal sensory grounding should be more effective than a classic verbal-centered teaching approach. The study is based on the comparison between learning and retrieval of sentences presented in a verbal only or verbal plus related visual images modality. Concrete and abstract meanings were used. Participants had to learn and then recognize these sentences (name and verb recognition). The preliminary data showed a general facilitation of the verbal plus visual image of the learning material. Moreover, a difficulty with abstract sentences emerged. The pattern of results supports the effectiveness of an embodied centered teaching based on educational stimulations that have a strong experiential sensory-motor basis. The implications of these results are discussed
The role of vision in egocentric and allocentric spatial frames of reference
No full textThe purpose of this paper was to verify whether left and right parietal brain lesions may selectively impair egocentric and allocentric processing of spatial information in near/far spaces. Two Right-BrainDamaged (RBD), 2 Left-Brain-Damaged (LBD) patients (not affected by neglect or language disturbances)
and eight normal controls were submitted to the Ego-Allo Task requiring distance judgments computed according to egocentric or allocentric frames of reference in near/far spaces. Subjects also completed a general neuropsychological assessment and the following visuospatial tasks: reproduction of the ReyOsterreith figure, line length judgement, point position identification, mental rotation, mental construction, line length memory, line length inference, Corsi block-tapping task. LBD patients presented difficulties
in both egocentric and allocentric processing, whereas RBD patients dropped in egocentric but not in allocentric judgements, and in near but not far space. Further, RBD patients dropped in perceptually comparing linear distances, whereas LBD patients failed in memory for distances. The overall pattern of
results suggests that the right hemisphere is specialized in processing metric information according to egocentric frames of reference. The data are interpreted according to a theoretical model that highlights the close link between egocentric processing and perceptual control of action
The effects of familiarity and gender on mental spatial representation of a real environment
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The self in motion: The advantage for one's own movements at an implicit but not explicit level
Full text linkThis study investigated the possible dissociation between implicit and explicit self-motion recognition. Converging evidence suggests that the distinction between self and other in the corporeal domain might rely on the integration of visual and sensorimotor representations of the body. Notably, previous studies have demonstrated that individuals are faster and more accurate in discriminating pictures depicting their own body effectors compared to those of others, the so-called self-advantage effect. Such facilitation has been found when participants had to recognize the bodily self in implicit but not explicit tasks. We hypothesized a similar advantage for implicit discrimination of one's own body movements relative to those of others, due to underlying sensorimotor mechanisms. Participants were presented with pairs of schematic movements (i.e., motion patterns of one's own skeleton and those of other bodies). In the Implicit task, they judged whether the movements were the same or different. In the Explicit task, they judged whether there was or not their own movement. Results showed facilitation in terms of accuracy and response time with movements belonging to the self than to other people in the Implicit task, indicating a self-advantage effect. Such a facilitation did not emerge in the Explicit task. Overall, the present findings disclose the contribution of motor information in self-awareness and body representation, supporting the role of sensorimotor mechanisms in implicit recognition of bodily self
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