Early development of body representations / / edited by Virginia Slaughter and Celia A. Brownell [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910828590903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-139-17939-X; 1-107-22478-0; 1-283-37845-0; 1-139-18898-4; 9786613378453; 1-139-18770-8; 1-139-19029-6; 1-139-18307-9; 1-139-18539-X; 1-139-01948-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 285 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Cambridge studies in cognitive and perceptual development ; ; 13
• Classificazione: PSY039000
• Disciplina: 305.231
• Soggetti: Human body - Social aspects; Body image
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Early Development of Body Representations; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Part I The bodily self; 1 Primordial sense of embodied self-unity; Primordial sense of embodied self-unity; Embodied sense of self and unity at birth; Presumed mental weakness of the pre-verbal child; Distinguishing the experiential from the conceptual; Criteria and evidence for basic experiential embodied unity at birth; Primordial sense of an embodied self; Embodied self-experience at birth; Conclusions: from implicit to explicit embodied self-awareness in development; References; 2 The development of body representations: the integration of visual-proprioceptive informationVisual-proprioceptive intermodal perception in infants; What is the temporal threshold of visual-proprioceptive ; integration?; How might the temporal discrimination threshold vary?; Visual-proprioceptive integration and the development of the objective self; Conclusion; References; 3 Emergence and early development of the body image; Neural representation of the body and body parts; Precursors in infancy: the body schema; Emergence of the body image: early developments in body self-awareness; Body structureBody topography; Body parts; Summary: early own-body knowledge; Future directions; References; 4 Gulliver, Goliath and Goldilocks: young children and scale errors; Documentation of the existence of scale errors; Scale errors and the use of visual information for planning versus executing actions on objects; Conclusion; References; Commentary on Part I The embodied mini-me: tracing the development of body representations and their role for self-awareness; The body in the wonderland; The multisensory body; Looking for myself; Mind the body; References; Part II The bodies of others; 5 Developing expertise in human body perceptionExpert body perception in adulthood; How does visual expertise for the human body arise?; Body detection develops relatively late in infancy; Stimulus generalisation effects in infants' body detection; Conclusion and future directions; References; 6 Children's representations of the human figure in their drawings; Children's early mark-making; The beginnings of representation; The first, recognisable figures; The development of a conventional figure; How universal are children's attempts to draw the human figure?; The representation of the human figure in different culturesThe sources of cultural influence on children's drawings; Individual characteristics and experiences; Summary; References; 7 Understanding of human motion, form and levels of meaning: evidence from the perception of human point-light displays by infants and people with autism; Levels of human bodily motion; Human motion and PLDs; Development of levels of understanding in infancy; Early sensitivity to human motion; 'Knowledge constraints'; Evidence for perception of the physical properties of the hidden human form; Attribution of psychological properties in infancy
• Sommario/riassunto: Because we engage with the world and each other through our bodies and bodily movements, being able to represent one's own and others' bodies is fundamental to human perception, cognition and behaviour. This edited book brings together, for the first time, developmental perspectives on the growth of body knowledge in infancy and early childhood and how it intersects with other aspects of perception and cognition. The book is organised into three sections addressing the bodily self, the bodies of others and integrating self and other. Topics include perception and representation of the human form, infant imitation, understanding biological motion, self-representation, intention understanding, action production and perception and children's human figure drawings. Each section includes chapters from leading international scholars drawn together by an expert commentary that highlights open questions and directions for future research.

Disposal of Dangerous Chemicals in Urban Areas and Mega Cities : Role of Oxides and Acids of Nitrogen in Atmospheric Chemistry / / edited by Ian Barnes, Krzysztof J. Rudziński

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910437948203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013
• ISBN: 94-007-5034-X
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2013.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XV, 346 p. 142 illus.)
• Collana: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security, , 1874-6543
• Altri autori (Persone): BarnesIan; RudzinskiKrzysztof J
• Disciplina: 628.42
• Soggetti: Environmental chemistry; Environmental monitoring; Pollution; Spectrum analysis; Environmental Chemistry; Environmental Monitoring; Spectroscopy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Oxides and acids of nitrogen play an important role in regulating atmospheric radical levels, in particular, that of the OH radical the main initiator of the degradation of chemicals in the atmosphere. A comprehensive overview on the methods used to measure nitrogen oxides and acids in the troposphere is given and difficulties and artefacts associated with the use of the techniques for measurements in urban and mega city environments is illustrated. State-of-the-art methods for the measurement of OH and HO2 radicals are reviewed and recently recognised difficulties, in particular with the measurement of HO2 radicals, are highlighted. Other contributions to the book cover our present understanding of the gas, aqueous and particulate/aerosol phase atmospheric degradation chemistry of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) under NOx conditions typical of rural, urban and ; mega city environments. Examples of measurements of NOx and VOCs in the atmospheres of these environments are given, in particular for the megacities Cairo and Beijing, in conjunction with modelling studies which attempt to simulate the field observations using state-of-the art knowledge on the chemistry of the VOCs and radical levels. .