#body schema

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Poetics of Dance: Body, Image, and Space in the Historical Avant-Gardes

by Gabrielle Bandstetter

Call # 792.801 B734p

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An independent mindset, most common in the individualistic cultures of North America and western Europe, is revealed by “yes” responses to questions like “I enjoy being unique and different from others in many respects”; an interdependent mindset, more typical in Asian, African or Latin American cultures, yields “yes” responses to questions like “My happiness depends on the happiness of those around me.” Subjects who had taken part in the joint sawing task were more likely to become physically entangled with their partner if they inclined toward an interdependent view. In other words, their personal philosophy of the self affected how readily they extended their bodily boundaries to include a partner. The relationship between a person’s notion of self-hood and the openness of their body schema to another human being hints that perhaps it’s no coincidence that tango, which takes entanglement to sublime heights, originated in a culture that orients toward interdependence. It also raises an intriguing question: if emotional boundaries between the self and others can influence bodily perceptions and actions, can the reverse be true as well?

Julie Sedivy, Can Another Body Be Seen as an Extension of Your Own? Surprising results show the fluidity of the “body schema”

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New Study

New study which may be relevant to those who experience supernumerary phantom limbs: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-another-body-be-seen-as-an-extension-of-your-own/ While the study does not address phantom limbs directly, it discusses the remarkable fluidity of the human “body schema”--the mental representation of the physical body which allows us to navigate through physical space--and how we change our mental maps of ourselves to integrate tools and even (in the case of dancing) other people’s bodies as if they were a part of us.

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As it turns out, the body schema is remarkably fluid. Scientists have had strong evidence for more than a decade now that it can easily incorporate objects that we interact with. For example, after using a tool for a period of time, people respond in a heightened way to visual stimuli near the end of that tool just as they would to stimuli near the edge of their hand—their brains have learned to treat the tool as an extension of their hand. Presumably, this is what gives us the feeling that, once we’ve learned to ski or play tennis, the skis or racquet no longer feel like foreign objects, but like parts of our bodies. But can other people come to feel like extensions of our bodies just as objects can? In a recent paper, psychologist Tamer Soliman and his colleagues used the tool-based studies as inspiration to explore whether coordinating physical actions with other humans can lead us to integrate their bodies into our own body schema in much the same way that interacting with objects extends our perception of our physical boundaries.

Julie Sedivy, Can Another Body Be Seen as an Extension of Your Own? Surprising results show the fluidity of the "body schema"

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Scoliosis Paper Re-Invented

Scoliosis treatment needs to be re-invented.<\p>

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Instinctive experimentation for idiopathic scoliosis (Scoliscore) is a dramatic assailment in prognostic explorational for idiopathic scoliosis and can now accurately thrash out the children with scoliosis whom are dominion genetically pre-disposed in consideration of developing a severe scoliosis spine. This is spell the end to €observation only€ type protocols which mildly €watch and wait€ until the scoliosis support gets €bad enough€ unto provide ineffective and intolerable scoliosis brace treatment. In fact, this would come the top-notch optimal time so inject in an early summer stock scoliosis entrenchment program that focuses solely on the assumption and elimination concerning the environmental influences that undoubtedly drive the scoliosis spine, rather except for only treating the curvature itself, and specifically targets the re-training in connection with the (presumably) under-developed automatic postural control centers in the jejunum stem. This can actually targeted, postural center re-training rehabilitation approach jordan be accomplished quickly, conveniently, and in at the outside 30 minutes a day (distich 15 coup sessions to be exact).<\p>

Re-train the discernment to treat idiopathic scoliosis.<\p>

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The FITT (Frequency, Intensity, Time, Kin) core requires at least 15 proceedings of training per session twice a day over the course upon 90-120 days for the neuro-muscular adaption against be obligated a €permanent€ enation and then only one full 15 min training diet one the time per week to maintain the neuro-muscular connection. <\p>