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Going beyond the boundaries between self and other
No full textBodily self-representation is considered to be built along development and then keep relatively stable in the adult life. We propose rather that the representations of self and others are constantly updated through social interactions. The integration of visual and tactile information pertaining one's own and other persons' body might play a critical
role in such representations. In the present study we show that sharing multisensory experience with others might modify both the representation of the self in relation to the other, and the processing of shared sensory stimuli. As previously shown, the perception of tactile stimuli on one's own face is stronger when viewing touch towards
one's own face as compared to when viewing touch towards another person's face (Visual remapping of touch effect, VRT;Serino et al., 2008). Behaviourally and psychometrically we show that, if subjects observe another person's face being stroked and are stroked on their own face simultaneously (Tsakiris, 2008), the self-related enhancement of VRT disappears, so that tactile perception is analogously influenced by viewing touch on the self and on the other. These findings suggest that the boundaries between the representation of the self and the other might be overcome by shared multisensory experiences
The Sense of Body
No full textThe body, as the subject or the object of our experience, mediates all the interactions between our mind and the world. Sensory stimuli are perceived through sensory organs distributed on the body surface. Physical interactions with external objects occur via the different body parts. Not surprisingly, both the human experience of the body itself and the concepts used to depict it are steeped in intellectual history. However, the experience of the body is rarely invoked in a unanimous manner in life sciences, mind sciences and the humanities. Should the experience of one's body be conceptualized as a straightforward neurophysiological process, a psychological structure, or an essentially private, scientifically inaccessible, subjective event? Like other psychological phenomena, the experience of one's body calls for parallel biological, behavioural and first-person styles of exploration
The Sense of Body
No full textThe body, as the subject or the object of our experience, mediates all the interactions between our mind and the world. Sensory stimuli are perceived through sensory organs distributed on the body surface. Physical interactions with external objects occur via the different body parts. Not surprisingly, both the human experience of the body itself and the concepts used to depict it are steeped in intellectual history. However, the experience of the body is rarely invoked in a unanimous manner in life sciences, mind sciences and the humanities. Should the experience of one's body be conceptualized as a straightforward neurophysiological process, a psychological structure, or an essentially private, scientifically inaccessible, subjective event? Like other psychological phenomena, the experience of one's body calls for parallel biological, behavioural and first-person styles of exploration
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Merging second-person and first-person neuroscience
Get PDFSchilbach et al. contrast second-person and third-person approaches to social neuroscience. We discuss relations between second-person and first-person approaches, arguing that they cannot be studied in isolation. Contingency is central for converging first- and second-person approaches. Studies of embodiment show how contingencies scaffold first-person perspective and how the transition from a third- to a second-person perspective fundamentally involves first-person contributions
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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