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Book SynopsisThis volume is a collection of articles which explore the relations between modern and classical visual art on the one hand and what is currently known or believed about visual perception, visual exploration, the eye, and the visual brain. The book includes speculative as well as firmly-grounded theories and approaches. Articles have been chosen for their scholarly value, their scientific approach as far as possible, and their intrinsic interest.Table of ContentsIntroduction Art as a scientific object: toward a visual science of art B. Pinna Some principles of spatial organization in art C. W. Tyler The origins of entasis: illusion, aesthetics or engineering? P. Thompson, G. Papadopoulou and E. Vassiliou Brain activity accompanying perception of implied motion in abstract paintings C.-Y. Kim and R. Blake Designing visually rich, nearly random textures J. Ninio Piranesi and the infinite prisons S. Roncato Gender’s effect on the hemispheric laterality of Rembrandt’s portraits J. A. Schirillo Artful visions N. J. Wade Visual interest in pictorial art during an aesthetic experience P. Locher, E. A. Krupinski, C. Mello-Thoms and C. F. Nodine Art pieces that ‘move’ in our minds— an explanation of illusory motion based on depth reversal T. V. Papathomas A universal model of esthetic perception based on the sensory coding of natural stimuli C. Redies Portraits and perception: configural information in creating and recognizing face images B. J. Balas and P. Sinha Fractal-like image statistics in visual art: similarity to natural scenes C. Redies, J. Hasenstein and J. Denzler Statistical regularities of art images and natural scenes: spectra, sparseness and nonlinearities D. J. Graham and D. J. Field Examining art: dissociating pattern and perceptual influences on oculomotor behaviour B. W. Tatler, N. J. Wade and K. Kaulard The science and craft of autostereograms J. Ninio Index Color plates I–XVI

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Book SynopsisTime Distortions in Mind brings together current research on aspects of temporal processing in clinical populations, in the ultimate hope of elucidating the interdependence between perturbations in timing and disturbances in the mind and brain. Such research may inform not only typical psychological functioning, but may also elucidate the psychological consequences of any pathophysiological differences in temporal processing. This collection of current knowledge on temporal processing in clinical populations is an excellent reference for the student and scientist interested in the topic, but it also serves as the stepping-stone to share ideas and push forward the advancement in understanding how distorted timing can lead to a disturbed brain and mind or vice versa. Contributors to this volume: Ryan D. Ward, Billur Avlar, Peter D Balsam, Deana B. Davalos, Jamie Opper, Yvonne Delevoye-Turrell, Hélène Wilquin, Mariama Dione, Anne Giersch, Laurence Lalanne, Mitsouko van Assche, Patrick E. Poncelet, Mark A. Elliott, Deborah L. Harrington, Stephen M. Rao, Catherine R.G. Jones, Marjan Jahanshahi, Bon-Mi Gu, Anita J. Jurkowski, Jessica I. Lake, Chara Malapani, Warren H. Meck, Rebecca M. C. Spencer, Dawn Wimpory, Brad Nicholas, Elzbieta Szelag, Aneta Szymaszek, Anna Oron, Melissa J. Allman, Christine M. Falter, Argiro Vatakis, Alexandra Elissavet BakouTable of ContentsPreface Chapter 1. Distorted multisensory experiences of order and simultaneity Chapter 2. Abnormal timing and time perception in Autism Spectrum Disorder? A review of the evidence Chapter 3. A social timing model of Autism, informed by typical development Chapter 4. Time processing in Schizophrenia Chapter 5. Sense of time continuity: Possible mechanisms of disruption in schizophrenia Chapter 6. Predictive timing for rhythmic motor actions in Schizophrenia Chapter 7. Interactions of timing and motivational impairments in Schizophrenia Chapter 8. Timing in neurogenerative disorders of the Basal Ganglia Chapter 9. Timing in the cerebellum and cerebellar disorders Chapter 10. Striatal and frontal pathology: Parkinson’s disease and patients with lesions of the basal ganglia and frontal cortex Chapter 11. Bayesian models of interval timing and distortions in temporal memory as a function of Parkinson’s Disease and dopamine-related error processing Chapter 12. Aphasia as a temporal information processing disorder Chapter 13. How could circadian clock genes influence short duration timing?

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Book SynopsisThe abstracts included in this supplement to Seeing and Perceiving: A Journal of Multisensory Science constitute the talks and posters presented at IMRF 2012, the 13th Annual IMRF Meeting in Oxford, held June 19-22 In Oxford, UK. The wide variety of subjects covered by these abstracts, and thewide range of nationalitites represented in the author list, highlight the continued growth of research on the topic of multisensory perception/integration worldwide.

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Book SynopsisTiming and Time Perception: Procedures, Measures, and Applications is a one-of-a-kind, collective effort to present the most utilized and known methods on timing and time perception. Specifically, it covers methods and analysis on circadian timing, synchrony perception, reaction/response time, time estimation, and alternative methods for clinical/developmental research. The book includes experimental protocols, programming code, and sample results and the content ranges from very introductory to more advanced so as to cover the needs of both junior and senior researchers. We hope that this will be the first step in future efforts to document experimental methods and analysis both in a theoretical and in a practical manner. Contributors are: Patricia V. Agostino, Rocío Alcalá-Quintana, Fuat Balcı, Karin Bausenhart, Richard Block, Ivana L. Bussi, Carlos S. Caldart, Mariagrazia Capizzi, Xiaoqin Chen, Ángel Correa, Massimiliano Di Luca, Céline Z. Duval, Mark T. Elliott, Dagmar Fraser, David Freestone, Miguel A. García-Pérez, Anne Giersch, Simon Grondin, Nori Jacoby, Florian Klapproth, Franziska Kopp, Maria Kostaki, Laurence Lalanne, Giovanna Mioni, Trevor B. Penney, Patrick E. Poncelet, Patrick Simen, Ryan Stables, Rolf Ulrich, Argiro Vatakis, Dominic Ward, Alan M. Wing, Kieran Yarrow, and Dan Zakay.Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations 1 Circadian Timing: From Genetics to Behavior  Patricia V. Agostino, Ivana L. Bussi and Carlos S. Caldart 2 Prospective and Retrospective Timing Processes: Theories, Methods, and Findings  Richard A. Block, Simon Grondin and Dan Zakay 3 Assessing Duration Discrimination: Psychophysical Methods and Psychometric Function Analysis  Karin M. Bausenhart, Massimiliano Di Luca and Rolf Ulrich 4 Methodological Issues in the Study of Prospective Timing  Giovanna Mioni 5 Duration Bisection: A User’s Guide  Trevor B. Penney and Xiaoqin Cheng 6 Temporal Decision-making: Common Procedures and Contemporary Approaches  David Freestone and Fuat Balcı 7 Towards a Process Model of Temporal Generalization  Florian Klapproth 8 Reaction Time Analysis for Interval Timing Research  Patrick Simen 9 Analysing Multi-person Timing in Music and Movement: Event Based Methods  Mark T. Elliott, Dominic Ward, Ryan Stables, Dagmar Fraser, Nori Jacoby and Alan M. Wing 10 Measuring Temporal Preparation  Mariagrazia Capizzi and Ángel Correa 11 Temporal Order and Synchrony Judgments: A Primer for Students  Maria Kostaki and Argiro Vatakis 12 Perceived Temporal Order and Simultaneity: Beyond Psychometric Functions  Miguel A. García-Pérez and Rocío Alcalá-Quintana 13 Collecting and Interpreting Judgments about Perceived Simultaneity: A Model-Fitting Tutorial  Kielan Yarrow 14 Using the Simon Effect in Simultaneity/Asynchrony Discrimination Tasks: Interest, Methods, and Limits  Anne Giersch, Patrick E. Poncelet, Céline Z. Duval and Laurence Lalanne 15 Tracking Time in the Infant Brain  Franziska Kopp

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Book SynopsisThe imaginary as a critical concept originated in the twentieth century and has been theorized in diverse ways. It can be understood as a register of thought; the way we interpret the world; the universe of images, signs, texts, and objects of thought. In this volume, it is explored as it manifests itself in encounters between the verbal and the visual. A number of the essays brought together here explore the transposition of the imaginary in illustrations of texts and verbal renditions of images, as well as in comic books based on paintings or on verbal narratives. Others analyze ways in which books deal with film or television and investigate the imaginary in digital media. Special attention is paid to the imaginary of places and the relationship of the imaginary with memory. Written in English and French, these contributions by European and American scholars demonstrate the various concerns and approaches characteristic of contemporary scholarship in word and image studies.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION SUMMARIES RÉSUMÉS TRANSPOSITIONS OF THE IMAGINARY IN WORD AND IMAGE: ILLUSTRATIONS TRANSPOSITIONS DE L’IMAGINAIRE EN TEXTE ET IMAGE: ILLUSTRATIONS Caroline Marie (Re-)Imaging the Imaginary of a Children's Story by Virginia Woolf: Nurse Lugton… through the Prism of Three Illustrators Eric T. Haskell Twentieth-Century Illustrations of Baudelaire's "La Mort des amants" Philippe Kaenel L’Illustration abstraite au XXe siècle: un paradoxe lessingien? TRANSPOSITIONS OF THE IMAGINARY IN WORD AND IMAGE: VERBALIZATIONS TRANSPOSITIONS DE L’IMAGINAIRE EN TEXTE ET IMAGE: VERBALISATIONS Nataliya Lenina L'Ekphrasis dans le roman de Georges Rodenbach Bruges-la-Morte Simone Grossman Textes et images dans L’Atelier des apparences Alexandra Catana The Play of Supports in the Poetics of Christian Dotremont RE-IMAG(IN)ING WORDS AND IMAGES IN THE COMIC BOOK RÉIMAGINER TEXTES ET IMAGES DANS LA BANDE DESSINÉE Lynn Bannon La Peinture par la bande: le cas de l’album citationnel Lucky Luke: l’artiste peintre France Lemoine The Representation of the Ineffable: Proust in Images Évelyne Deprêtre Une mélancolie mesurée: de Proust à Heuet Jean-Louis Tilleuil La Bande dessinee et ses imaginaires hegemoniques ou phagocytes: le cas de Gemma Bovery de Posy Simmonds THE IMAGINARY AND THE SCREEN: BOOKS, MOVIES, TELEVISION L’IMAGINAIRE ET L’ÉCRAN: LIVRES, FILMS, TÉLÉVISION Françoise Sammarcelli Haunted Places: Screening the Imaginary in A Night at the Movies, Or, You Must Remember This by Robert Coover Sonia Lagerwall Through the Looking-Glass with Chloe Delaume: The Imaginary of Television Read by the Autofictional Novel Arcana Albright To View or Not to View? Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s Televisual Imaginary IMAGINARIES IN DIGITAL MEDIA IMAGINAIRES DANS LES MÉDIAS NUMÉRIQUES Jan Baetens et Fred Truyen Le Portrait de l’écrivain: une mythologie pérenne? Anaïs Guilet Vers une littérature cyborg: l’hybridation médiatique du texte littéraire Caroline Bem Text as Image in the Digital Age: A Formalist Reading of Polyvore Sets THE IMAGINARY AND MEMORY L’IMAGINAIRE ET LA MÉMOIRE Liliane Louvel Suaires blancs et noirs, imag(inair)es en negatif: quand l’image “revient” comme empreinte et trace Claire Gheerardyn Iconoclasme textuel: mettre en mots le monument pour mieux le briser Maryse Ouellet Pour un imaginaire du présentisme: images du temps chez Claudio Parmiggiani et Hannah Arendt THE IMAGINARY OF PLACES L’IMAGINAIRE DES LIEUX Jorgelina Orftla On Art History and Meta-Images: Art Reproductions, Site Photographs, and Cezanne's Art Nathalie Roelens La Ville et ses prosopopées fabuleuses Eleonora Diamanti Detournement et magnification de l’imaginaire urbain dans les discours sociaux CONTRIBUTORS CONTRIBUTEURS INDEX

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Book SynopsisIn this volume specific cognitive sub-functions are identified and indications of how basic vestibular input contributes to each are described. The broad range of these functions is consistent with the broad spread of vestibular projections throughout the cortex. Combining vestibular signals about the head’s orientation relative to gravity with information about head position relative to the body provides sufficient information to map body position onto the ground surface and underlie the sense of spatial position. But vestibular signals are also fundamental to sensorimotor control and even to high-level bodily perception such as the sense of body ownership and the anchoring of perspective to the body. Clinical observations confirm the essential role of vestibular signals in maintaining a coherent self-representation and suggest some novel rehabilitation strategies. The chapters presented in this volume are previously published in a Special Issue of Multisensory Research, Volume 28, Issue 5-6 (2015). Contributors are: M. Barnett-Cowan, O. Blanke, J. Blouin, G. Bosco, G. Bottini, J.-P. Bresciani, J.C. Culham, C.L. Darlington, A.W. Ellis, E.R. Ferrè, M. Gandola, L. Grabherr, S. Gravano, P. Grivaz, E. Guillaud, P. Haggard, L.R. Harris, A.E.N. Hoover, I. Indovina, K. Jáuregu Renaud, M. Kaliuzhna, F. Lacquaniti, B. Lenggenhager, C. Lopez, G. Macauda, V. Maffei, F.W. Mast, B. La Scaleia, B.M. Seemungal, M. Simoneau, P.F. Smith, J.C. Snow, D. Vibert, M. Zago, and Y. Zheng.Trade Review"this book provides a lot of evidence for strong and functionally important vestibular influences on various cognitive functions, an aspect that deserves a lot more attention than it has gotten so far. This book is thus an excellent and timely step in the right direction and a helpful introduction for any scientist wanting to familiarize with this topic." Perception, 2018, p. 1-3, (DOI: 10.1177/0301006618774210)Table of ContentsPreface E.R. Ferrè and L.R. Harris Prediction in the Vestibular Control of Arm Movements J. Blouin, J.-P. Bresciani, E. Guillaud and M. Simoneau The Components of Vestibular Cognition — Motion Versus Spatial Perception B.M. Seemungal Gravity in the Brain as a Reference for Space and Time Perception F. Lacquaniti, G. Bosco, S. Gravano, I. Indovina, B. La Scaleia, V. Maffei and M. Zago Contribution of Bodily and Gravitational Orientation Cues to Face and Letter Recognition M. Barnett-Cowan, J.C. Snow and J.C. Culham Internal Models, Vestibular Cognition, and Mental Imagery: Conceptual Considerations F.W. Mast and A.W. Ellis The Effects of Complete Vestibular Deafferentation on Spatial Memory and the Hippocampus in the Rat: The Dunedin Experience P.F. Smith, C.L. Darlington and Y. Zheng Making Sense of the Body: the Role of Vestibular Signals C. Lopez Vestibular–Somatosensory Interactions: A Mechanism in Search of a Function? E.R. Ferrè and P. Haggard Disrupting Vestibular Activity Disrupts Body Ownership A.E.N. Hoover and L.R. Harris Beyond the Non-Specific Attentional Effect of Caloric Vestibular Stimulation: Evidence from Healthy Subjects and Patients G. Bottini and M. Gandola Out-of-Body Experiences and Other Complex Dissociation Experiences in a Patient with Unilateral Peripheral Vestibular Damage and Deficient Multisensory Integration M. Kaliuzhna, D. Vibert; P. Grivaz and O. Blanke Vestibular Function and Depersonalization/Derealization Symptoms K. Jáuregui Renaud The Moving History of Vestibular Stimulation as a Therapeutic Intervention L. Grabherr, G. Macauda and B. Lenggenhager Index

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Table of ContentsContents Abstract Keywords  Introduction  1 What Spirituality Is? Problems with Defining Spirituality, and Its Origins  2 The Relationship between Spirituality and Religiousness  3 Faces of Spirituality  4 The Threefold Nature of Spirituality (TNS Model) – Empirical Investigation  5 Further Perspectives of Research  Epilogue  Acknowledgements  References

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Book SynopsisFenomenologie.- Etiologie.- Probleemanalyse.- Algemene uitgangspunten bij de behandeling.- Behandeling van specifieke fobieën.- Behandeling van paniekstoornis en agorafobie.- Behandeling van sociale fobie/sociale angststoornis.- Behandeling van dwangstoornis.- Behandeling van posttraumatische stress-stoornis.- De behandeling van gegeneraliseerde angststoornis.- Behandeling van hypochondrie.

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Book SynopsisEmotions are essential for human existence, both lighting the way toward the brightest of achievements and setting the course into the darkness of suffering. Not surprisingly, then, emotion research is currently one of the hottest topics in the field of psychology. Yet to divine the nature of emotion is a complex and extensive task. In this book emotions are approached thought an exploration of the nature of cognition in emotion; the nature of thoughts in feelings. Different approaches to emotions are explored, from brain research to research at the level of experience, and it is argued that all approaches must seriously take into account the experiential dimension. A qualitative study of experiences with art is therefore presented, as emotions and cognition are often expressed in experiences with art. It is the first study of its kind. Descriptions of various affective phenomena are then given which have significant implications for contemporary debates about emotions, resolving several contemporary controversies.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Describing Emotion Chapter 2: Describing Cognition Chapter 3: Theories about the Emotion-Cognition Relationship Chapter 4: Experiences with Art Chapter 5: A Phenomenological Study of Art Appreciation Chapter 6: Discussion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCognitive Iconology is a new theory of the relation of psychology to art. Instead of being an application of psychological principles, it is a methodologically aware account of psychology, art and the nature of explanation. Rather than fight over biology or culture, it shows how they must fit together. The term “cognitive iconology” is meant to mirror other disciplines like cognitive poetics and musicology but the fear that images must be somehow transparent to understanding is calmed by the stratified approach to explanation that is outlined. In the book, cognitive iconology is a theory of cognitive tendencies that contribute to but are not determinative of an artistic meaning. At the center of the book are three case studies: images depicted within images, basic corrections to architectural renderings in images, and murals and paintings seen from the side. In all cases, there is a primitive perceptual pull that contribute to but do not override larger cultural meaning. The book then moves beyond the confines of the image to behavior around the image, and then ends with the concluding question of why some images are harder to understand than others. Cognitive Iconology promises to be important because it moves beyond the turf battles typically fought in image studies. It argues for a sustainable practice of interpretation that can live with other disciplines.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Toward a Cognitive Iconology Chapter 1: Cognitive Iconology: Understanding versus Explanation Chapter 2: Fiction and Transcription: Two Ecologies of Perception Chapter 3: A Classification of Perspective “Corrections” in Images Chapter 4: Presence over Perspective: Portraits-in-Pictures Chapter 5: Oblique Images from the Side and Below Chapter 6: Acting Irrational around Art Conclusion: Cognitive Proclivities for the Study of Art Bibliography Index

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