Search results for " Imagination"
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The what and how of observational learning
2007
Abstract Neuroimaging evidence increasingly supports the hypothesis that the same neural structures subserve the execution, imagination, and observation of actions. We used repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to investigate the specific roles of cerebellum and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) in observational learning of a visuomotor task. Subjects observed an actor detecting a hidden sequence in a matrix and then performed the task detecting either the previously observed sequence or a new one. rTMS applied over the cerebellum before the observational training interfered with performance of the new sequence, whereas rTMS applied over the DLPFC interfered with performa…
Imagination in human social cognition, autism, and psychotic-affective conditions
2016
Abstract Complex human social cognition has evolved in concert with risks for psychiatric disorders. Recently, autism and psychotic-affective conditions (mainly schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression) have been posited as psychological ‘opposites’ with regard to social-cognitive phenotypes. Imagination, considered as ‘forming new ideas, mental images, or concepts’, represents a central facet of human social evolution and cognition. Previous studies have documented reduced imagination in autism, and increased imagination in association with psychotic-affective conditions, yet these sets of findings have yet to be considered together, or evaluated in the context of the diametric mode…
Verso una dimensione narrativa delle mappe
2021
Tra il pensiero e la costruzione dell’architettura il disegno ha un ruolo baricentrico per connettere i diversi protagonisti di una realizzazione e per coinvolgere la collettività facendo percepire inedite prospettive. La scrittura si rivela utile per esplicitare ciò che nella grafica è sotteso e per stabilire un ordine nuovo nel ragionamento progettuale. I rapporti fra segni e significati si moltiplicano nei sistemi informativi recenti in cui si ha la sensazione di poter dire moltissimo (dati numerici e spaziali) ma a volte sfugge quella sintesi indispensabile per una interpretazione concreta, finalizzata alla costruzione di possibili esperienze fisiche. Per l’esplorazione dell’uso di dive…
Building a model of corporate social responsibility in the old industrial region(in the case of Upper Silesia): a sociological perspective
2009
PurposeCorporate social responsibility (CSR) is one of the most crucial phenomena of global capitalism at the beginning of the twenty‐first century. For this reason it is emphasized by many companies (especially transnational corporations and multinational companies) and in the European Union and its policy. The main purpose of this paper is to analyze how CSR exists in a transitional country and region – the Upper Silesian Industrial District and the Rybnik Coalmine Area in Southern Poland.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative and quantitative methodology was used to summarize the sociological research among entrepreneurs and businesses located throughout the region.FindingsThis researc…
Immaginazione e relazioni di potere nell’opera di Carl Sauer
2023
The aim of this contribution is to highlight the denunciation of abuse and social inequalities and the domination of some groups of individuals over others in the production of Carl Ortwin Sauer, the father of North American cultural geography. The role of imagination in some works of the American geographer will also be highlighted.
‘Glocal’ processes in peripheral football countries:A figurational sociological comparison of Finland and Hungary
2015
The aim of this article is to increase the understanding of the global and local contexts in football by finding out what social, cultural and economic dimensions seem to characterize ‘periphery’ football. This study applies figurational sociological perspective, which is applicable to the research on globalization processes and sport. The sources utilized are publications on the history and sociology of football as well as interviews with football practitioners. First, a theoretical framework of the global football figuration is advanced. Second, applying the constructed framework, the concept of periphery football country is discussed. It was found in accordance with previous research tha…
Dalle Cronache del mal d’amore al ciclo dell’Amica geniale: continuità ed evoluzione nella narrativa di Elena Ferrante
2019
The paper analyzes the whole narrative production of Elena Ferrante, emphasizing its unity and cohesion. Cohesion coexists with discontinuity: the publication of My Brilliant Friend marks an inventive turning point and reveals new strategies. But it’s even remarkable Ferrante’s predilection for a narrative in which «the flow of storytelling that despite its density manages to sweep you away».
Human Surfaces
2020
Human Surfaces è un diario visivo interpretativo che mette in luce, in modo originale, un’iconografia di varie e potenziali diversità individuali (l’alter ego, l’attore, il visionario) protagoniste di scene immaginarie ma non per questo meno obiettive. Di Donato si muove in un territorio non solo di osservazione ma di costruzione dell’immagine, a sancire che la fotografia, come tutte le forme visuali autoriali, è un’emanazione che contiene il suo arte fice. Tessendo le fila delle sue visioni l’autore crea intersezioni, riconoscimenti, trasforma zioni, vere e proprie descrizioni dense di ciò che immagina e ritrae, svelando le relazioni di senso affidate alle immagini e all’immaginario. Le su…
Re-Imagining the Border: Border Art as a Space of Critical Imagination and Creative Resistance
2014
Contemporary world is increasingly marked by borders, fences and walls, which run through the spaces we live in. Borders are the result of a composite articulation of material aspects, concerning their external realisation, and structures of imagination, symbolic constructs and conceptual formations that involve the border and make it meaningful. In this dynamic and mutable field, artistic practices and interventions can interrupt and alterate the logic of the border, opening up a space of resistance and critical imagination, where the transparent, immutable and essentialist representation of the border is constantly challenged. Works of artists such as Bajevic, Hatoum, Salcedo, Rosver and …
Letteratura e scienze del bios: il caso di Siri Hustvedt
2019
Negli ultimi anni anche la teoria letteraria in Italia ha cominciato ad affrontare la questione del significato biologico della narrazione e della letteratura. Il presupposto di questo interesse sta nel riconoscimento che la narrazione può essere a pieno titolo considerata un “comportamento” tipico della specie Homo sapiens, non foss’altro perché è un fenomeno che riguarda tutta la specie (in tutte le latitudini e a tutte le altezze cronologiche) e può essere considerata nel quadro delle attitudini cognitive che hanno permesso agli umani di costruire una nicchia ecologica che è il prodotto dell’interazione tra evoluzione biologica e costruzioni culturali.