Essays about: "sensory perception"

Showing result 36 - 40 of 81 essays containing the words sensory perception.

  1. 36. Wagakki and Japanese Popular Music: The Perception of Music and Cultural Identity

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för Asien-, Mellanöstern- och Turkietstudier

    Author : Charley Rivel; [2020]
    Keywords : Japan; wagakki; performativity; cultural identity; popular music;

    Abstract : This study focuses on the connection between cultural identity and Japanese popular music. It contains conducted interviews and semantic analyses on musicians who use Japanese traditional instruments and Western instruments in their repertoire. It uses performativity theory as theoretical framework. READ MORE

  3. 37. Can electrical pulses be adapted to create life-like perceptions?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Biomedicinsk teknik

    Author : Carolina Rudervall; [2020]
    Keywords : nerve stimulation; electrical stimulation; sensations; TENS; perceptions; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : The next big step to improve prosthetics and make the lives of people living with certain physical disabilities less restricted is to provide them with sensory feedback. Today most feedback systems used in prosthetics are mechanical but with the recent developments in sensors and the processing of their input electrical stimulation is becoming an increasingly promising way to convey touch, pressure and movement. READ MORE

  4. 38. DAYLIGHT as an architectural and atmospheric quality in Swedish domestic housing

    University essay from KTH/Ljusdesign

    Author : Emma Larsson; [2020]
    Keywords : Light; housing; space; apartment; perception; experience; Sweden;

    Abstract : In the real experience of a space, light and space are inseparable. Light describes the space, it’s shape and structure, as well as the space and its material tells about the nature of light. READ MORE

  5. 39. Urban Atmospheres : Multisensory Perception as the Linkage between Urban Environment and Social Interaction in Main Streets

    University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

    Author : Melanie Hierl; [2019]
    Keywords : urban environment; social interaction; multisensory; perception; atmosphere; main streets;

    Abstract : Within the discipline of urban planning and design, this thesis introduces urban atmos-pheres as a theoretical concept, interlinking the urban dweller’s perception of the urban environment with the disposition of social interaction. The aim is to research how urban environments, such as main streets, are being perceived through different senses and which urban atmospheres are disposing social interaction. READ MORE

  6. 40. Shozo Ohmori’s 'Fancy' : A Third Mode of Awareness

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionen

    Author : Robin Lagelius; [2019]
    Keywords : Awareness; Fancy; Perception; Conception; Perceptual Conception; Three-Dimensional; Three-Dimensional Objects; Three-Dimensional Space; Three-Dimensionality; Monism of Emergence; Shozo Ohmori; Shōzō Ōmori; Japanese Philosophy; Asian Philosophy; David Hume; Contrary-to-Fact Conditional Cases; Dispositional Terms; Other Minds; Historical Horizon; Atomic Conception of Time; Against Atomic Conception of Time; Awareness Natalis; Awareness Pluralis; Awareness in Motion; Awareness Compromised; Epistemological Concerns; Japansk filosofi; asiatisk filosofi;

    Abstract : This thesis is an investigation into the phenomenon which Shozo Ohmori (1921-1997) considered “a peculiar manner of awareness”, and to which he attributed the term ‘fancy’. The objective is to achieve an approximate understanding of Ohmori’s theory of ‘fancy’, as it relates to awareness of entities in three-dimensional space, and the extensions mentioned in his only publication in English: “Beyond Hume’s Fancy” (1974). READ MORE