1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455979803321

Titolo

Laughter in the Middle Ages and early modern times [[electronic resource] ] : epistemology of a fundamental human behavior, its meaning, and consequences / / edited by Albrecht Classen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 2010

ISBN

1-282-88515-4

9786612885150

3-11-024548-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (863 p.)

Collana

Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; ; 5

Classificazione

GF 6377

Altri autori (Persone)

ClassenAlbrecht

Disciplina

809/.93354

Soggetti

Laughter in literature

Humor in literature

Laughter - History

Wit and humor - History

Laughter - Philosophy

Laughter - Religious aspects

Wit and humor, Medieval

Wit and humor - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Laughter as an Expression of Human Natur in theMiddle Ages and the Early Modern Period: Literary, Historical, Theological, Philosophical, and Psychological Reflections. Also an Introduction -- Chapter 1. Laughter in Procopius's Wars -- Chapter 2. "Does God Really Laugh?" - Appropriate and Inappropriate Descriptions of God in Islamic Traditionalist Theology -- Chapter 3. Laughter in Beowulf: Ambiguity, Ambivalence, and Group Identity Formation -- Chapter 4. The Parodia sacra Problem and Medieval Comic Studies -- Chapter 5. Women's Laughter and Gender Politics in Medieval Conduct Discourse -- Chapter 6. Pushing Decorum: Uneasy Laughter in Heinrich von dem Türlîn's Diu Crône -- Chapter 7. Laughter



and the Comedic in a Religious Text: The Example of the Cantigas de Santa Maria -- Chapter 8. The Son Rebelled and So the Father Made Man Alone: Ridicule and Boundary Maintenance in the Nizzahon Vetus -- Chapter 9. Laughing at the Beast: The Judensau: Anti Jewish Propaganda and Humor from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period -- Chapter 10. Yes . . . but was it funny? Cecco Angiolieri, Rustico Filippi, and Giovanni Boccaccio -- Chapter 11. Curses and Laughter in Medieval Italian Comic Poetry: The Ethics of Humor in Rustico Filippi's Invectives -- Chapter 12. Tromdhámh Guaire: a Context for Laughter and Audience in Early Modern Ireland -- Chapter 13. Humorous Transgression in the Non Conformist fabliaux Genre: A Bakhtinian Analysis of Three Comic Tales -- Chapter 14. Chaucerian Comedy: Troilus and Criseyde -- Chapter 15. Laughing in and Laughing at the Old French Fabliaux -- Chapter 16. Laughter and Medieval Stalls -- Chapter 17. Vox populi e voce professionis: Processus juris joco serius. Esoteric Humor and the Incommensurability of Laughter -- Chapter 18. "So I thought as I Stood, To Mirth Us Among": The Function of Laughter in The Second Shepherds' Play -- Chapter 19. Laughing in Late Medieval Verse (mæren) and Prose (Schwänke) Narratives: Epistemological Strategies and Hermeneutic Explorations -- Chapter 20. The Workings of Desire: Panurge and the Dogs -- Chapter 21. Laughing Out Loud in the Heptaméron: A Reassessment of Marguerite de Navarre's Ambivalent Humor -- Chapter 22. You had to be there: The Elusive Humor of the Sottie -- Chapter 23. Sacred Parody in Robert Greene's Groatsworth of Wit (1592) -- Chapter 24. The Comedy of the Shrew: Theorizing Humor in Early Modern Netherlandish Art -- Chapter 25. The Comic Personas of Milton's Prolusion VI: Negotiating Masculine Identity Through Self Directed Humor -- Chapter 26. Ridentum dicere verum (Using Laughter to Speak the Truth): Laughter and the Language of the Early Modern Clown "Pickelhering" in German Literature of the Late Seventeenth Century (1675-1700) -- Chapter 27. Andreae's ludibrium: Menippean Satire in the Chymische Hochzeit -- Chapter 28. The Comic Power of Illusion Allusion: Laughter, La Devineresse, and the Scandal of a Glorious Century -- Chapter 29. Laughing at Credulity and Superstition in the Long Eighteenth Century -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

Despite popular opinions of the 'dark Middle Ages' and a 'gloomy early modern age,' many people laughed, smiled, giggled, chuckled, entertained and ridiculed each other. This volume demonstrates how important laughter had been at times and how diverse the situations proved to be in which people laughed, and this from late antiquity to the eighteenth century. The contributions examine a wide gamut of significant cases of laughter in literary texts, historical documents, and art works where laughter determined the relationship among people. In fact, laughter emerges as a kaleidoscopic phenomenon reflecting divine joy, bitter hatred and contempt, satirical perspectives and parodic intentions. In some examples protagonists laughed out of sheer happiness and delight, in others because they felt anxiety and insecurity. It is much more difficult to detect premodern sculptures of laughing figures, but they also existed. Laughter reflected a variety of concerns, interests, and intentions, and the collective approach in this volume to laughter in the past opens many new windows to the history of mentality, social and religious conditions, gender relationships, and power structures.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910821926303321

Autore

Sanei Saeid

Titolo

Adaptive processing of brain signals / / Saeid Sanei

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, : John Wiley & Sons Inc., c2013

ISBN

9781118622162

1118622162

9781118622148

1118622146

9781118622155

1118622154

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1039 p.)

Classificazione

SCI067000

Disciplina

573.8/5

Soggetti

Brain - Physiology

Neural networks (Neurobiology)

Signal processing - Digital techniques

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Preface; Chapter 1 Brain Signals, Their Generation, Acquisition and Properties; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Historical Review of the Brain; 1.3 Neural Activities; 1.4 Action Potentials; 1.5 EEG Generation; 1.6 Brain Rhythms; 1.7 EEG Recording and Measurement; 1.8 Abnormal EEG Patterns; 1.9 Aging; 1.10 Mental Disorders; 1.11 Memory and Content Retrieval; 1.12 MEG Signals and Their Generation; 1.13 Conclusions; References; Chapter 2 Fundamentals of EEG Signal Processing; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Nonlinearity of the Medium; 2.3 Nonstationarity; 2.4 Signal Segmentation

2.5 Other Properties of Brain Signals2.6 Conclusions; References; Chapter 3 EEG Signal Modelling; 3.1 Physiological Modelling of EEG Generation; 3.2 Mathematical Models; 3.3 Generating EEG Signals Based on Modelling the Neuronal Activities; 3.4 Electronic Models; 3.5 Dynamic Modelling of the Neuron Action Potential Threshold; 3.6 Conclusions; References; Chapter 4 Signal Transforms and Joint Time-Frequency Analysis; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Parametric Spectrum Estimation and Z-Transform; 4.3 Time-Frequency Domain Transforms;



4.4 Ambiguity Function and the Wigner-Ville Distribution

4.5 Hermite Transform4.6 Conclusions; References; Chapter 5 Chaos and Dynamical Analysis; 5.1 Entropy; 5.2 Kolmogorov Entropy; 5.3 Lyapunov Exponents; 5.4 Plotting the Attractor Dimensions from Time Series; 5.5 Estimation of Lyapunov Exponents from Time Series; 5.6 Approximate Entropy; 5.7 Using Prediction Order; 5.8 Conclusions; References; Chapter 6 Classification and Clustering of Brain Signals; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Linear Discriminant Analysis; 6.3 Support Vector Machines; 6.4 k-Means Algorithm; 6.5 Common Spatial Patterns; 6.6 Conclusions; References

Chapter 7 Blind and Semi-Blind Source Separation7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Singular Spectrum Analysis; 7.3 Independent Component Analysis; 7.4 Instantaneous BSS; 7.5 Convolutive BSS; 7.6 Sparse Component Analysis; 7.7 Nonlinear BSS; 7.8 Constrained BSS; 7.9 Application of Constrained BSS;  Example; 7.10 Nonstationary BSS; 7.11 Tensor Factorization for Underdetermined Source Separation; 7.12 Tensor Factorization for Separation of Convolutive Mixtures in the Time Domain; 7.13 Separation of Correlated Sources via Tensor Factorization; 7.14 Conclusions; References

Chapter 8 Connectivity of Brain Regions8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Connectivity Through Coherency; 8.3 Phase-Slope Index; 8.4 Multivariate Directionality Estimation; 8.5 Modelling the Connectivity by Structural Equation Modelling; 8.6 EEG Hyper-Scanning and Inter-Subject Connectivity; 8.7 State-Space Model for Estimation of Cortical Interactions; 8.8 Application of Adaptive Filters; 8.9 Tensor Factorization Approach; 8.10 Conclusions; References; Chapter 9 Detection and Tracking of Event-Related Potentials; 9.1 ERP Generation and Types; 9.2 Detection, Separation, and Classification of P300 Signals

9.3 Brain Activity Assessment Using ERP

Sommario/riassunto

"Brain signal processing spans a broad range of knowledge across engineering, science and medicine, and this book brings together the disparate theory and application to create a comprehensive resource on this growing topic. It will provide advanced tools for the detection, monitoring, separation, localizing and understanding of brain functional, anatomical, and physiological abnormalities. The focus will be on advanced and adaptive signal processing techniques for the processing of electroencephalography and magneto-encephalography signals, and their correlation to the corresponding functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Multimodal processing of brain signals, the new focus for brain signal research, will also be explored. The book covers the broad remit of neuro-imaging, ensuring comprehensive coverage of all issues related to brain signal processing. Topics such as mental fatigue, brain connectivity and new recording techniques will also be covered.This book will be a progression/follow on from Dr Sanei's first book with Wiley, EEG Signal Processing"--

"Covers the fundamentals of brain signal processing, before developing the subject at advanced level"--