Bridging the Performance Gap: The Body, Cognitive Theory, and Comedia Studies

2003 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-53
Author(s):  
Catherine Connor (Swietlicki)
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
The Body ◽  
Performance Gap

Embodied valuation: Directional action is associated with item values

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (8) ◽  
pp. 1734-1747
Author(s):  
Danielle J Green ◽  
Alison Harris ◽  
Aleena Young ◽  
Catherine L Reed
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Process ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
Control Experiment ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Sensorimotor System ◽  
Economic Theories ◽  
Food Items ◽  
Economic Choice

We have a lifetime of experience interacting with objects we value. Although many economic theories represent valuation as a purely cognitive process independent of the sensorimotor system, embodied cognitive theory suggests that our memories for items’ value should be linked to actions we use to obtain them. Here, we investigated whether the value of real items was associated with specific directional movements toward or away from the body. Participants priced a set of food items to determine their values; they then used directional actions to classify each item as high- or low-value. To determine if value is linked to specific action mappings, movements were referenced either with respect to the object (push toward high-value items; pull away from low-value items) or the self (pull high-value items toward self; push low-value items away). Participants who were assigned (Experiment 1) or chose (Experiment 2) to use an object-referenced action mapping were faster than those using a self-referenced mapping. A control experiment (Experiment 3) using left/right movements found no such difference when action mappings were not toward/away from the body. These results indicate that directional actions toward items are associated with the representation of their value, suggesting an embodied component to economic choice.

Mental models, (de)compressions, and the actor’s process in body-swap movies

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 376-409
Author(s):  
Ahmed Abdel-Raheem
Keyword(s):  
Mental Models ◽  
Performance Studies ◽  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
The Body ◽  
Conceptual Blending ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Concepts ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Number Of Publications

Abstract The body-swap comedy, where someone finds themselves inhabiting an entirely different body, is a well-established Hollywood tradition. Crucially, American filmmakers have tried every twist and contortion of this genre premise at a point or another over the past few decades. And yet, other countries, such as Egypt, Japan, and South Africa, seem to have just now put different spins on the theme. Nevertheless, this genre is under-theorized and under-explored. Drawing on insights from blending theory (Fauconnier and Turner 2002), mental models (van Dijk 2014), and the actor’s process as described by, among others, Stanislavsky (1995, 2008) and Brecht (1964, 1970), this article provides cognitively plausible answers to the perennial questions: What is so funny in body-swap films? How do spectators make sense of this genre? How do blending processes operate in body-swap movies? Do spectators “live in the blend?” What patterns of compression or decompression are at work in body-swap templates? Can humor be a strong determiner of moral-political cognition? And what connections can be drawn between acting and cognitive neuroscience? A discussion of English and Arabic examples (i) points to some of the cultural concepts involved in body-swap films, (ii) shows how conceptual blending in humorous films serves to both perpetuate and modify culturally relevant concepts, and (iii) highlights the necessity to expand the current scope in compression, embodiment and identity research. More generally, then, this article presents a new cognitive theory of how cinema, television, or theatre communicates meaning. The most important aim of this study is thus to contribute to the small but growing number of publications that use the cognitive sciences to inform scholarly and practical explorations in theatre and performance studies, as well as to the study of Arab theatre and cinema, which are among the most neglected subjects in the field.

scholarly journals Objectification of the superconcept «ideology» in the publicistic discours: diachronic aspect

2020 ◽  
Vol 99 (3) ◽  
pp. 20-26
Author(s):  
S. Baimamyrov ◽  
◽  
B. Tungushbaeva
Keyword(s):  
Group Identity ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
The Body ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Actual Problem ◽  
Linguistic Representations ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Post Soviet Period

The authors considers the phraseological — periphrastic combination in the conceptospher of the superсonсept «ideology» that exist in the minds of members of social groups in the form of linguistic representations, define group identity and are included in the body of political lexicon, as one of the highlights of the Russian language will the Soviet / post-Soviet period. Our research is devoted to an actual problem of the modern linguistic science — cognitive theory, particularly to structure and semantic study of the superconcept «ideology». In the article described over phrase combinations OPHC of the Russian language, verbalizing this concept in publicistic discourse of the Soviet and beginning of the Post Soviet periods. Theoretical importance of the offered research is defined by the development of the Russian language conceptosphere theory, author’s attempt to work out OPhC theory, ordering principles, underlining and describing them in pragma linguistic aspectpractical. The authors of the article also present various schemes and tables, illustrating the theoretical provisions of the work.

scholarly journals Entrepreneur Resilience: How Do Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Basic Psychological Needs Influence It? The Effect of COVID-19 on Malaysia's Small and Medium Enterprises

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Dalili Izni Shafie ◽  
Salmi Mohd Isa
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Basic Psychological Needs ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Impact

The latest COVID-19 pandemic has affected industries worldwide, impacting virtually every industry and business field. Small and medium-sized businesses, in particular, have been hard hit due to a lack of funding and skills. The current study attempted to examine the impact of entrepreneurial self-efficacy and basic psychological needs on entrepreneur resilience among SMEs in Malaysia during the critical period of COVID-19. This integrated two-theory analysis article presents the findings of social cognitive theory and self-determination theory as one of the contributions to the body of knowledge in describing the relationship between a construct within the research context. Theoretical and practical implications are also discussed based on the proposed framework.  

scholarly journals Charles Ballyʼs paper «Syntaxe de la modalité explicite» and modern linguistics

Movoznavstvo ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 318 (3) ◽  
pp. 43-51
Author(s):  
V. M. Britsуn ◽  
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L. V. Anishchenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
The Body ◽  
Affective Factors ◽  
Ferdinand De Saussure ◽  
Active Approach ◽  
Modal Verb ◽  
The Subject

The article examines the place of Charles Ballyʼs paper «Syntaxe de la modalité explicite» in the body of work of the prominent Swiss linguist on the category of modality and identifies the role of his ideas in modern description of syntax. In Charles Ballyʼs linguistic heritage the concept of modality plays an exceptionally important role. His views o n the modal organization of the sentence are based on the theoretical perspective to describing the phenomenon of language proposed by his teacher Ferdinand de Saussure. Charles Ballyʼs theory of modality is an integral part of his general theory of enunciation. Identification of the two components in the semantic structure of the sentence, namely the modus and the dictum, becomes some kind of a bridge between Saussureʼs intellectualized grammar of language and the grammar of speech, which specifically entails the study of emotional and affective factors, and also stylistic aspects of human language. According to Charles Bally, the modus is a combination of a modal verb, which may contain a variety of shades of opinion, feeling or will, and a modal subject, which can represent a speaking subject and also other subjects. Charles Ballyʼs studies significantly influenced the interpretation of the category of modality in modern linguistics. However, not every theory based on the idea of identifying the modus and the dictum in the sentence can be theoretically convincing. Identifying the dictum with the representation of the objective, and the modus with the subjective led to unsubstantiated theoretical opposition of objective and subjective modality. Only misunderstanding of Charles Ballyʼs ideas might explain the attempts to attribute the ability to express the category of evaluation and emotionality to the modus. Charles Ballyʼs original theoretical views proved to be productive in the development of the cognitive theory of modality, which in its turn is based on other theoretical views on the phenomenon of language. Within this theory, modality is defined as a category that describes the mental-sensory differentiation of the speakerʼs thoughts in the process of sentence formation. According to the active approach to sentence interpretation, the subject of the modus in cognitive modality theory is only the speaker. The paper «Syntaxe de la modalité explicite», which Charles Bally described as a program of studies, has not lost its relevance. The task of describing the semantic shades of modality, as well as various forms of its expression, the principles of classification of modal verbs outlined in the paper as the goal of linguistics, remains largely unresolved today.

The intelligent social change journey

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-300
Author(s):  
Alex Bennet ◽  
David Bennet ◽  
Arthur Shelley ◽  
Theresa Bullard ◽  
John Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
The Body ◽  
Phase Changes ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Cause And Effect ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

Purpose This paper aims to share key ideas forwarded in the five-book series focused on the Intelligent Social Change Journey (ISCJ) reflecting the latest research in the Consciousness Series supported by the Mountain Quest Institute and collaborators. This review is based on five separate books released as Part I (Laying the Groundwork), Part II (Learning from the Past), Part III (Learning in the Present), Part IV (Co-Creating the Future) and Part V (Living the Future) of The Profundity and Bifurcation of Change. Design/methodology/approach Reflecting the consilience approach taken by this in-depth research, the review of ideas provided in this paper tap into a deep array of research in knowledge and learning, with specific reference to recent neuroscience understanding that is emerging, and looks to psychology, physics, cell biology, systems and complexity, cognitive theory, social theory and spirituality for their contributions. The five books are heavily referenced (look to the larger work for these references) and, considering the individual as an intelligent complex adaptive learning system (Bennet et al., 2015b), entangle materials from science to philosophy, facts to psychology, management to poetry and words to pictures. This much shorter review can only partially represent this approach. Findings At this point in the history of humanity ? in the midst of a conscious expansion of our human capacity and understanding ? the rules are changing. As we move away from predictable patterns susceptible to logic, we are increasingly reliant on our ?gut? instinct, an internal sense of knowing that can tap into the intuitional plane. Yet, this knowing can only serve us if we ?know? what to do with it, how to act. Development of our mental faculties is essential to acting. We are on a developmental journey of the body, mind and heart, moving from the heaviness of cause-and-effect linear extrapolations, to the fluidity of co-evolving with our environment, to the lightness of breathing our thought and feelings into reality. Grounded in development of our mental faculties, these are phase changes, each building on and expanding previous learning in our movement toward intelligent activity. Originality/value This review lays the groundwork for the ISCJ, exploring consciousness through the lens of the cause-and-effect logic of Phase 1 (Learning from the Past), the co-evolving of Phase 2 (Learning in the Present) and the creative leap of Phase 3 (Co-Creating the Future). This research connects the expansion of consciousness to development of the human knowledge system.

Relations of Body Esteem Factors with Exercise Session Attendance in Women Initiating a Physical Activity Program

2005 ◽  
Vol 100 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 995-1003 ◽  
Author(s):  
James J. Annesi
Keyword(s):  
Weight Control ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
Exercise Program ◽  
Body Esteem ◽  
Exercise Group ◽  
The Body ◽  
Exercise Session ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Regression Equations ◽  
Session Attendance

Based on tenets of cognitive behavioral and social cognitive theory, the association of change in body-esteem factors and attendance in a newly initiated, 12-wk. cardiovascular exercise program was estimated in women (age range = 21 to 60 years, M = 41.4, SD = 12.2). For the group given the exercise program ( n = 48), there were significant positive changes on the Weight Control and Physical Condition scores of the Body Esteem Scale at 12 weeks, but not on Sexual Attractiveness scores. For the no-exercise control group ( n = 30), no significant changes were found on any of the Body Esteem Scale subscales. For the exercise group, regression analyses indicated between 8% and 9% of the variance in exercise session attendance was accounted for by the changes in scores on each of the three subscales. Entering age into multiple regression equations did not increase the explained variances in attendance. The fit of the findings within behavioral theory, implications for change in exercise behavior, and the need for replication and extension were discussed.

scholarly journals The causa sine qua non of Human Cognition for Durand f St. Pourçain

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 91-122
Author(s):  
Maria Clara Pereira e Silva
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Material Object ◽  
Sensory Organs ◽  
Cognitive Faculty ◽  
Agent Intellect

This article aims to analyze the notion of sine qua non cause of the cognitive theory of Durand’ of St. Pourçain Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard [A] and [C]. For Durand, when the intellect acts by a cognitive act, no absolute entity is added to it. The cognition, or thought, is treated by the author as a relative entity, not as something that belongs to the intellect, or as something that is added to it. The sensible species of the material object, spread in the medium, affects the external sensory organs. Therefore, the sensory faculty notices the changes that occurred in the body and is capable of producing a sensation and the cognitive faculty, on its turn, can produce a conception due to the intuition of the changes that happened in the body to which it is associated. Consequently, there is no need to affirm that a cognitive act is the result of an abstractive process. The culmination of his cognitive theory is the rejection of the existence of an agent intellect responsible for abstracting.

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