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Record Nr.

UNINA9910137095303321

Titolo

Neurovision : neural bases of binocular vision and coordination and their implications in visual training programs / / edited by: Olivier A. Coubard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Lausanne, Switzerland] : , : Frontiers Media SA, , 2015

©2015

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Frontiers Research Topics

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Soggetti

Binocular vision

Binocular vision disorders

Visual training

Neurophysiology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Binocular vision is achieved by five neurovisual systems originating in the retina but varying in their destination within the brain. Two systems have been widely studied: the retino-tectal or retino-collicular route, which subserves an expedient and raw estimate of the visual scene through the magnocellular pathway (Isa, 2002), and the retino-occipital or retino-cortical route, which allows slower but refined analysis of the visual scene through the parvocellular pathway (Espinosa & Stryker, 2012). But there also exist further neurovisual systems: the retino-hypothalamic, retino-pretectal, and accessory optic systems, which play a crucial role in vision though they are less understood ...The focus of this issue is to review the most recent findings in brain imaging and neurophysiology of binocular vision and coordination in humans and animals with frontally-placed eyes. The emphasis will be put on studies that enable transfer of knowledge toward visual training programs targeting binocular functional disorders (e.g., amblyopia) and visual field defects (e.g., hemianopia).



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910953630103321

Autore

Wolfgang Aurora

Titolo

Gender and voice in the French novel, 1730-1782 / / Aurora Wolfgang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-138-37880-1

1-315-25466-2

1-351-93472-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 pages)

Disciplina

843.509353

Soggetti

French fiction - 18th century - History and criticism

Gender identity in literature

Women in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2004 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Write for success : feminine-voice narratives in the literary field -- 2. The novelist turned 'furiously female' : Marivaux's La vie de Marianne -- 3. Words and worlds of difference : Graffigny's Lettres d 'une Peruvienne -- 4. The discourse of authenticity in Riccoboni's Lettres de Mistriss Fanni Butlerd -- 5. Embodying the female voice : Laclos's Les liaisons dangereuses.

Sommario/riassunto

Analyzing four best-selling novels - by both women and men - written in the feminine voice, this book traces how the creation of women-centered salons and the emergence of a feminine poetic style engendered a new type of literature in eighteenth-century France. The author argues that writing in a female voice allowed writers of both sexes to break with classical notions of literature and style, so that they could create a modern sensibility that appealed to a larger reading public, and gave them scope to innovate with style and form. Wolfgang brings to light how the 'female voice' in literature came to embody the language of sociability, but also allowed writers to explore the domain of inter-subjectivity, while creating new bonds between writers and the reading public. Through examination of Marivaux's La Vie de Marianne, Graffigny's Lettres d'une P ruvienne, Riccoboni's Lettres de Mistriss Fanni Butlerd, and Laclos's Les Liaisons dangereuses, she shows that in



France, this modern 'feminine' sensibility turned the least prestigious of literary genres - the novel - into the most compelling and innovative literary form of the eighteenth century. Emphasizing how the narratives analyzed here refashioned the French literary world through their linguistic innovation and expression of new forms of subjectivity, this study claims an important role for feminine-voice narratives in shaping the field of eighteenth-century literature.