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Author: Marcus Wood
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780415926980
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout this important volume, the author provides an invaluable addition to the limited literature now available on the visual images associated with slavery and abolition, integrated into a sophisticated analysis of their meaning and legacy today. of color images. 150 illustrations.
Author: Gary Haun
Publisher:
Published: 2014-03-31
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781496091130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGary Haun lost his eyesight in 1973 while serving on active duty with the United States Marine Corps. Since that time, Gary has not let blindness limit his passion for living life to its fullest.Gary has stood on the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro and swam with Great White sharks in South Africa. From skydiving to swimming with dolphins and manatees, Gary has found adventure in many different countries. As the Amazing Haundini, Gary has performed magic for audiences throughout the world.In Blind Artist, Gary shares his creative endeavors with a collection of his paintings and other art. Gary explains how painting has helped him to overcome adversity in his life. He also explains the methods and techniques he uses to create his art.Gary says his purpose in writing this book is to inspire others to create their own art and by doing so, discover the enjoyment and fulfillment of sharing their inner emotions and feelings.Gary says, "I would like to think this book will encourage others (especially children and people with disabilities) to learn and participate in art.""Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen." - Pablo Picasso
Author: Zaira Cattaneo
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2023-12-05
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 0262549883
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn investigation of the effects of blindness and other types of visual deficit on cognitive abilities. Can a blind person see? The very idea seems paradoxical. And yet, if we conceive of "seeing" as the ability to generate internal mental representations that may contain visual details, the idea of blind vision becomes a concept subject to investigation. In this book, Zaira Cattaneo and Tomaso Vecchi examine the effects of blindness and other types of visual deficit on the development and functioning of the human cognitive system. Drawing on behavioral and neurophysiological data, Cattaneo and Vecchi analyze research on mental imagery, spatial cognition, and compensatory mechanisms at the sensorial, cognitive, and cortical levels in individuals with complete or profound visual impairment. They find that our brain does not need our eyes to "see." Cattaneo and Vecchi address critical questions of broad importance: the relationship of visual perception to imagery and working memory and the extent to which mental imagery depends on normal vision; the functional and neural relationships between vision and the other senses; the specific aspects of the visual experience that are crucial to cognitive development or specific cognitive mechanisms; and the extraordinary plasticity of the brain—as illustrated by the way that, in the blind, the visual cortex may be reorganized to support other perceptual or cognitive funtions. In the absence of vision, the other senses work as functional substitutes and are often improved. With Blind Vision, Cattaneo and Vecchi take on the "tyranny of the visual," pointing to the importance of the other senses in cognition.
Author: Almut Braun
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-08-12
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 3658151986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlmut Braun carried out forensic phonetic speaker identification experiments (voice lineups) with 306 lay listeners. Blind listeners significantly outperformed sighted listeners when the speech recordings were presented in studio quality. For recordings in mobile phone quality or of whispering voices, blind and sighted listeners achieved similar results. The data can be used as reference material for real cases with blind earwitnesses. Furthermore, it is discussed whether blind individuals are particularly suitable to work as forensic audio analysts for law enforcement agencies.
Author: Jessica Moody
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1789622328
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Persistence of Memory is a history of the public memory of transatlantic slavery in the largest slave-trading port city in Europe, from the end of the 18th century into the 21st century; from history to memory. Mapping this public memory over more than two centuries reveals the ways in which dissonant pasts, rather than being 'forgotten histories', persist over time as a contested public debate. This public memory, intimately intertwined with constructions of 'place' and 'identity', has been shaped by legacies of transatlantic slavery itself, as well as other events, contexts and phenomena along its trajectory, revealing the ways in which current narratives and debate around difficult histories have histories of their own. By the 21st century, Liverpool, once the 'slaving capital of the world', had more permanent and long-lasting memory work relating to transatlantic slavery than any other British city. The long history of how Liverpool, home to Britain's oldest continuous black presence, has publicly 'remembered' its own slaving past, how this has changed over time and why, is of central significance and relevance to current and ongoing efforts to face contested histories, particularly those surrounding race, slavery and empire.
Author: S. Begum
Publisher: Discovery Publishing House
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9788171417346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContents: Introduction, Conspectus of Research on Cognitive Abilities, A Study Plan and Procedure, Presentation Analysis and Interpretation of Data, Discussion, Summary, Conclusions, Recommendations and Suggestions.
Author: Svein Magnussen
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2007-05-07
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1135420653
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents an authoritative overview of memory in everyday contexts, and gathers together research on some of the more neglected areas of memory, to provide a comprehensive overview of remembering in real life contexts.
Author: Hong Xu
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Published: 2023-04-04
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 2832519792
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Qi Zhao
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-10-03
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9811002134
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite a plethora of scientific literature devoted to vision research and the trend toward integrative research, the borders between disciplines remain a practical difficulty. To address this problem, this book provides a systematic and comprehensive overview of vision from various perspectives, ranging from neuroscience to cognition, and from computational principles to engineering developments. It is written by leading international researchers in the field, with an emphasis on linking multiple disciplines and the impact such synergy can lead to in terms of both scientific breakthroughs and technology innovations. It is aimed at active researchers and interested scientists and engineers in related fields.
Author: Mikhail Iampolski
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1998-10-26
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780520914728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe concept of intertextuality has proven of inestimable value in recent attempts to understand the nature of literature and its relation to other systems of cultural meaning. In The Memory of Tiresias, Mikhail Iamposlki presents the first sustained attempt to develop a theory of cinematic intertextuality. Building on the insights of semiotics and contemporary film theory, Iampolski defines cinema as a chain of transparent, mimetic fragments intermixed with quotations he calls "textual anomalies." These challenge the normalization of meaning and seek to open reading out onto the unlimited field of cultural history, which is understood in texts as a semiotically active extract, already inscribed. Quotations obstruct mimesis and are consequently transformed in the process of semiosis, an operation that Iampolski defines as reading in an aura of enigma. In a series of brilliant analyses of films by D.W. Griffith, Sergei Eisenstein, and Luis Buñuel, he presents different strategies of intertextual reading in their work. His book suggests the continuing centrality of semiotic analysis and is certain to interest film historians and theorists, as well as readers in cultural and literary studies.
