Sökning: "body ownership"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 27 avhandlingar innehållade orden body ownership.
1. Body-ownership and visual perception
Sammanfattning : The idea that our body plays an important role in visual perception has a long history in storytelling and philosophy. Some ideas are very intuitive. For example, few will disagree with the notion that smaller people perceive the world to be bigger, and vice versa, that larger people perceive the world to be smaller. LÄS MER
2. Dog Ownership and Cardiovascular Disease
Sammanfattning : The relationship between pet ownership and human health has been studied extensively; however, the effect of dog ownership on human health has had conflicting results. The overall aim of this research project was to investigate the impact of dog ownership, and the death of the dog, on human cardiovascular health and all-cause mortality. LÄS MER
3. Multisensory mechanisms of body ownership and self-location
Sammanfattning : Having an accurate sense of the spatial boundaries of the body is a prerequisite for interacting with the environment and is thus essential for the survival of any organism with a central nervous system. Every second, our brain receives a staggering amount of information from the body across different sensory channels, each of which features a certain degree of noise. LÄS MER
4. The coexistence of family, ownership, and business : Conceptualizing entanglement and business family ownering
Sammanfattning : This research engages with the topic of business family ownership through an ethnographically inspired study of business governance-related activities constructed as family members’ business-owning practices relationally and over time. In short, it is about what business families do when owning businesses and how this form of owning can be conceptualized. LÄS MER
5. Do I need a body to know who I am? Neural mechanisms of body ownership
Sammanfattning : The feeling that our body belongs to us, and that it is an essential part of ourselves, is a fundamental aspect of human self-awareness and individual psychological identity. The intimate relation between the sense of body ownership and the sense of self emphasizes the importance of understanding the former in order to access and comprehend the latter. LÄS MER