The deepest sense [[electronic resource] ] : a cultural history of touch / / Constance Classen
| The deepest sense [[electronic resource] ] : a cultural history of touch / / Constance Classen |
| Autore | Classen Constance <1957-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
| Disciplina | 612.8/8 |
| Collana | Studies in sensory history |
| Soggetto topico |
Touch - History
Senses and sensation - History Social history |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-252-09440-9
1-283-99357-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""The Inside Story""; ""1. A Place by the Fire""; ""The Common Touch""; ""A Place by the Fire""; ""The Walled City""; ""Hard at Work""; ""The Rites of Pleasure""; ""2. A Touchable God""; ""A Tactile Cosmology""; ""Mystical Touch""; ""Gestures of Piety""; ""The Cult of Relics""; ""Corpus Christi""; ""Ordeals by Fire""; ""3. Painful Times""; ""Suffering Bodies and Healing Hands""; ""Blind Touch""; ""Leprosy, the Black Death, and Dancing Mania""; ""The Uses of Pain""; ""The Torments of Hell""; ""Sorrow and Compassion""
""4. A Woman�s Touch""""Male and Female Bodies""; ""A Woman�s Touch""; ""Women�s Work""; ""Texts and Textiles""; ""Mystical Raptures and Pain Craft""; ""The Witch�s Touch""; ""5. Animal Skins""; ""Animal Bodies""; ""Animal Companions""; ""Beasts, Wild Men, and Slaves""; ""Animal Souls""; ""Experimentation and the Campaign Against Cruelty""; ""6. Tactile Arts""; ""The Aesthetics of Touch""; ""The Feel of Art""; ""Crafty Ladies""; ""Touch in the Museum""; ""7. The Modern Touch""; ""Petrarch�s Vision""; ""The Decline of Sacred Touch""; ""New Sensory Worlds"" ""The Persistence of Touch""""The Finishing Touch""; ""8. Sensations of a New Age""; ""The Drill""; ""The School, the Prison, and the Museum""; ""The Feel of the City""; ""The Electric Creed""; ""Touch at Home""; ""The Stuff of Dreams""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""back cover"" |
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| Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2012 | ||
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The deepest sense [[electronic resource] ] : a cultural history of touch / / Constance Classen
| The deepest sense [[electronic resource] ] : a cultural history of touch / / Constance Classen |
| Autore | Classen Constance <1957-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
| Disciplina | 612.8/8 |
| Collana | Studies in sensory history |
| Soggetto topico |
Touch - History
Senses and sensation - History Social history |
| ISBN |
0-252-09440-9
1-283-99357-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""The Inside Story""; ""1. A Place by the Fire""; ""The Common Touch""; ""A Place by the Fire""; ""The Walled City""; ""Hard at Work""; ""The Rites of Pleasure""; ""2. A Touchable God""; ""A Tactile Cosmology""; ""Mystical Touch""; ""Gestures of Piety""; ""The Cult of Relics""; ""Corpus Christi""; ""Ordeals by Fire""; ""3. Painful Times""; ""Suffering Bodies and Healing Hands""; ""Blind Touch""; ""Leprosy, the Black Death, and Dancing Mania""; ""The Uses of Pain""; ""The Torments of Hell""; ""Sorrow and Compassion""
""4. A Woman�s Touch""""Male and Female Bodies""; ""A Woman�s Touch""; ""Women�s Work""; ""Texts and Textiles""; ""Mystical Raptures and Pain Craft""; ""The Witch�s Touch""; ""5. Animal Skins""; ""Animal Bodies""; ""Animal Companions""; ""Beasts, Wild Men, and Slaves""; ""Animal Souls""; ""Experimentation and the Campaign Against Cruelty""; ""6. Tactile Arts""; ""The Aesthetics of Touch""; ""The Feel of Art""; ""Crafty Ladies""; ""Touch in the Museum""; ""7. The Modern Touch""; ""Petrarch�s Vision""; ""The Decline of Sacred Touch""; ""New Sensory Worlds"" ""The Persistence of Touch""""The Finishing Touch""; ""8. Sensations of a New Age""; ""The Drill""; ""The School, the Prison, and the Museum""; ""The Feel of the City""; ""The Electric Creed""; ""Touch at Home""; ""The Stuff of Dreams""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""back cover"" |
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Classen Constance <1957->
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| Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2012 | ||
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The deepest sense : a cultural history of touch / / Constance Classen
| The deepest sense : a cultural history of touch / / Constance Classen |
| Autore | Classen Constance <1957-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
| Disciplina | 612.8/8 |
| Collana | Studies in sensory history |
| Soggetto topico |
Touch - History
Senses and sensation - History Social history |
| ISBN |
9780252094408
0252094409 9781283993579 1283993570 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""The Inside Story""; ""1. A Place by the Fire""; ""The Common Touch""; ""A Place by the Fire""; ""The Walled City""; ""Hard at Work""; ""The Rites of Pleasure""; ""2. A Touchable God""; ""A Tactile Cosmology""; ""Mystical Touch""; ""Gestures of Piety""; ""The Cult of Relics""; ""Corpus Christi""; ""Ordeals by Fire""; ""3. Painful Times""; ""Suffering Bodies and Healing Hands""; ""Blind Touch""; ""Leprosy, the Black Death, and Dancing Mania""; ""The Uses of Pain""; ""The Torments of Hell""; ""Sorrow and Compassion""
""4. A Woman�s Touch""""Male and Female Bodies""; ""A Woman�s Touch""; ""Women�s Work""; ""Texts and Textiles""; ""Mystical Raptures and Pain Craft""; ""The Witch�s Touch""; ""5. Animal Skins""; ""Animal Bodies""; ""Animal Companions""; ""Beasts, Wild Men, and Slaves""; ""Animal Souls""; ""Experimentation and the Campaign Against Cruelty""; ""6. Tactile Arts""; ""The Aesthetics of Touch""; ""The Feel of Art""; ""Crafty Ladies""; ""Touch in the Museum""; ""7. The Modern Touch""; ""Petrarch�s Vision""; ""The Decline of Sacred Touch""; ""New Sensory Worlds"" ""The Persistence of Touch""""The Finishing Touch""; ""8. Sensations of a New Age""; ""The Drill""; ""The School, the Prison, and the Museum""; ""The Feel of the City""; ""The Electric Creed""; ""Touch at Home""; ""The Stuff of Dreams""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""back cover"" |
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| Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2012 | ||
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Information-processing channels in the tactile sensory system [[electronic resource] ] : a psychophysical and physiological analysis / / George A. Gescheider, John H. Wright, Ronald T. Verrillo
| Information-processing channels in the tactile sensory system [[electronic resource] ] : a psychophysical and physiological analysis / / George A. Gescheider, John H. Wright, Ronald T. Verrillo |
| Autore | Gescheider George A |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Psychology Press, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (146 p.) |
| Disciplina | 612.8/8 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
WrightJohn H. <1938->
VerrilloRonald T |
| Collana | Scientific psychology series |
| Soggetto topico | Touch |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-135-41925-6
1-283-04590-7 9786613045904 0-203-89000-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Channels in touch -- Identification of specific neural systems responsible for mechanoreception -- Duplex model of mechanoreception -- Spatial and temporal summation in the P system -- The neural bases of the tactile systems -- Anatomy of tactile receptors -- Neurophysiology of tactile receptors and their nerve fibers -- Neural bases of the P and NP systems -- Four neural systems mediate the detection of vibratory stimuli -- Frequency selectivity of a neural system is determined by its receptors -- From neural systems to information-processing channels -- Sensation-magnitude enhancement occurs within but not across channels -- Multichannel model of tactile sensitivity -- The psychophysical tuning curve -- Testing the multichannel model through experiments on adaptation and masking -- Adaptation reveals the existence of tactile channels -- Masking occurs within but not across channels -- Testing the multichannel model through experiments on sensory learning -- Properties of tactile channels -- The frequency selectivity of channels -- Temporal summation and temporal acuity -- Spatial acuity -- Edge detection -- Spatial summation -- Effects of observer characteristics -- Effects of aging on the sensitivity of tactile channels -- Effects of the menstrual cycle -- The functional roles of channels -- Channels enhance the detectability of stimuli -- Channels enhance the discriminability of stimuli -- The functional roles of the individual tactile channels -- The decibel scale -- The functional role of the PC channel -- The functional role of the RA channel -- The functional role of the SA I channel -- The functional role of the SA II channel -- Specialization of channels -- Channel interactions -- Summation of sensation magnitude across channels -- The perception of texture -- Role of attention in the enhancement and summation of sensation magnitude -- Interactions between tactile channels and other somatosensory submodalities. |
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| New York, : Psychology Press, c2009 | ||
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Information-processing channels in the tactile sensory system [[electronic resource] ] : a psychophysical and physiological analysis / / George A. Gescheider, John H. Wright, Ronald T. Verrillo
| Information-processing channels in the tactile sensory system [[electronic resource] ] : a psychophysical and physiological analysis / / George A. Gescheider, John H. Wright, Ronald T. Verrillo |
| Autore | Gescheider George A |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Psychology Press, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (146 p.) |
| Disciplina | 612.8/8 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
WrightJohn H. <1938->
VerrilloRonald T |
| Collana | Scientific psychology series |
| Soggetto topico | Touch |
| ISBN |
1-135-41925-6
1-283-04590-7 9786613045904 0-203-89000-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Channels in touch -- Identification of specific neural systems responsible for mechanoreception -- Duplex model of mechanoreception -- Spatial and temporal summation in the P system -- The neural bases of the tactile systems -- Anatomy of tactile receptors -- Neurophysiology of tactile receptors and their nerve fibers -- Neural bases of the P and NP systems -- Four neural systems mediate the detection of vibratory stimuli -- Frequency selectivity of a neural system is determined by its receptors -- From neural systems to information-processing channels -- Sensation-magnitude enhancement occurs within but not across channels -- Multichannel model of tactile sensitivity -- The psychophysical tuning curve -- Testing the multichannel model through experiments on adaptation and masking -- Adaptation reveals the existence of tactile channels -- Masking occurs within but not across channels -- Testing the multichannel model through experiments on sensory learning -- Properties of tactile channels -- The frequency selectivity of channels -- Temporal summation and temporal acuity -- Spatial acuity -- Edge detection -- Spatial summation -- Effects of observer characteristics -- Effects of aging on the sensitivity of tactile channels -- Effects of the menstrual cycle -- The functional roles of channels -- Channels enhance the detectability of stimuli -- Channels enhance the discriminability of stimuli -- The functional roles of the individual tactile channels -- The decibel scale -- The functional role of the PC channel -- The functional role of the RA channel -- The functional role of the SA I channel -- The functional role of the SA II channel -- Specialization of channels -- Channel interactions -- Summation of sensation magnitude across channels -- The perception of texture -- Role of attention in the enhancement and summation of sensation magnitude -- Interactions between tactile channels and other somatosensory submodalities. |
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Gescheider George A
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| New York, : Psychology Press, c2009 | ||
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Information-processing channels in the tactile sensory system : a psychophysical and physiological analysis / / George A. Gescheider, John H. Wright, Ronald T. Verrillo
| Information-processing channels in the tactile sensory system : a psychophysical and physiological analysis / / George A. Gescheider, John H. Wright, Ronald T. Verrillo |
| Autore | Gescheider George A |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Psychology Press, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (146 p.) |
| Disciplina | 612.8/8 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
WrightJohn H. <1938->
VerrilloRonald T |
| Collana | Scientific psychology series |
| Soggetto topico | Touch |
| ISBN |
1-135-41925-6
1-283-04590-7 9786613045904 0-203-89000-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Channels in touch -- Identification of specific neural systems responsible for mechanoreception -- Duplex model of mechanoreception -- Spatial and temporal summation in the P system -- The neural bases of the tactile systems -- Anatomy of tactile receptors -- Neurophysiology of tactile receptors and their nerve fibers -- Neural bases of the P and NP systems -- Four neural systems mediate the detection of vibratory stimuli -- Frequency selectivity of a neural system is determined by its receptors -- From neural systems to information-processing channels -- Sensation-magnitude enhancement occurs within but not across channels -- Multichannel model of tactile sensitivity -- The psychophysical tuning curve -- Testing the multichannel model through experiments on adaptation and masking -- Adaptation reveals the existence of tactile channels -- Masking occurs within but not across channels -- Testing the multichannel model through experiments on sensory learning -- Properties of tactile channels -- The frequency selectivity of channels -- Temporal summation and temporal acuity -- Spatial acuity -- Edge detection -- Spatial summation -- Effects of observer characteristics -- Effects of aging on the sensitivity of tactile channels -- Effects of the menstrual cycle -- The functional roles of channels -- Channels enhance the detectability of stimuli -- Channels enhance the discriminability of stimuli -- The functional roles of the individual tactile channels -- The decibel scale -- The functional role of the PC channel -- The functional role of the RA channel -- The functional role of the SA I channel -- The functional role of the SA II channel -- Specialization of channels -- Channel interactions -- Summation of sensation magnitude across channels -- The perception of texture -- Role of attention in the enhancement and summation of sensation magnitude -- Interactions between tactile channels and other somatosensory submodalities. |
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| New York, : Psychology Press, c2009 | ||
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Visceral sensory neuroscience : interoception / / Oliver G. Cameron
| Visceral sensory neuroscience : interoception / / Oliver G. Cameron |
| Autore | Cameron Oliver G. |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (372 p.) |
| Disciplina |
152
612.8/8 616.8 |
| Collana | Oxford scholarship online |
| Soggetto topico | Interoception |
| ISBN |
0-19-770919-2
1-280-83440-4 9786610834402 0-19-803110-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Contents; PART I. DEFINITIONS, HISTORY, BACKGROUND; PART II. THE ESSENTIAL RECENT SCIENCE; PART III. RELATED TOPICS AND SUMMARY; References; Name Index; Subject Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910964709603321 |
Cameron Oliver G.
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| Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023 | ||
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Visceral sensory neuroscience [[electronic resource] ] : interoception / / Oliver G. Cameron
| Visceral sensory neuroscience [[electronic resource] ] : interoception / / Oliver G. Cameron |
| Autore | Cameron Oliver G |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (372 p.) |
| Disciplina |
152
612.8/8 616.8 |
| Soggetto topico |
Nervous system
Neurosciences Senses and sensation Viscera - Innervation |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-83440-4
9786610834402 0-19-803110-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Contents; PART I. DEFINITIONS, HISTORY, BACKGROUND; PART II. THE ESSENTIAL RECENT SCIENCE; PART III. RELATED TOPICS AND SUMMARY; References; Name Index; Subject Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453699303321 |
Cameron Oliver G
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| Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Visceral sensory neuroscience [[electronic resource] ] : interoception / / Oliver G. Cameron
| Visceral sensory neuroscience [[electronic resource] ] : interoception / / Oliver G. Cameron |
| Autore | Cameron Oliver G |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (372 p.) |
| Disciplina |
152
612.8/8 616.8 |
| Soggetto topico |
Nervous system
Neurosciences Senses and sensation Viscera - Innervation |
| ISBN |
0-19-770919-2
1-280-83440-4 9786610834402 0-19-803110-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Contents; PART I. DEFINITIONS, HISTORY, BACKGROUND; PART II. THE ESSENTIAL RECENT SCIENCE; PART III. RELATED TOPICS AND SUMMARY; References; Name Index; Subject Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782309403321 |
Cameron Oliver G
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| Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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