Book/Printed Material Understanding body movement : a guide to empirical research on nonverbal behaviour ; with an introduction to the NEUROGES coding system
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Title
- Understanding body movement : a guide to empirical research on nonverbal behaviour ; with an introduction to the NEUROGES coding system
Names
- Lausberg, Hedda, 1964- editor.
Created / Published
- [Bern, Suisse] : Peter Lang, [2013]
Contents
- Cover; Editor and list of contributors; Preface; Contents; I. An Interdisciplinary Review on Movement Behaviour Research; 1. Movement Behaviour Research through History and in Current Scientific Disciplines (Hedda Lausberg); 2. Empirical Research on Movement Behaviour and its Link to Cognitive, Emotional, and Interactive Processes (Hedda Lausberg); 2.1 Different classes of movement behaviour reflect and affect cognitive, emotional, and interactive processes; 2.1.1 Gesture and spatial cognition; 2.1.2 Self-touch and arousal; 2.1.3 Posture and mood 2.1.4 Rest positions and quality of interaction2.1.5 Summary; 2.2 Body movements are associated with implicit and explicit cognitive, emotional, and interactive processes; 2.3 Movement behaviour is organized in patterns; 2.4 The temporal dimension of movement units provides insight into the duration of the associated cognitive, emotional, and interactive processes; 2.5 Laterality preferences reflect hemispheric specialization in the production of specific types of limb movements; 2.5.1 The anatomical basis of assessing hemispheric specialization based on laterality preference 2.5.2 Laterality preferences for gesture types in split-brain patients2.5.3 Laterality preferences for different movement types in healthy individuals; 2.5.4 Summary; 2.6 Conclusions for movement behaviour research methodology; 3. Movement Behaviour Analysis across Scientific Disciplines (Hedda Lausberg); 3.1 Some common shortcomings in movement behaviour analysis methodology; 3.2 Criteria for the review on coding systems; 3.3 Comprehensive descriptive systems; 3.4 Systems that classify movements according to function; 3.5 Systems that register alterations in movement behaviour 3.5.1 Movement psychopathology 3.5.2 Apraxia; 3.6 Summary; II. The NEUROGES Coding System; 4. The Aims and the Development of the NEUROGES Coding System (Hedda Lausberg); 4.1 Aims of the NEUROGES System; 4.2 Application; 4.3 Criteria for the development; 4.4 Methods of development; 4.5 Development of the modules, categories, and values, and of the hierarchy; 4.5.1 Module I; 4.5.2 Module II; 4.5.3 Module III; 4.5.4 The hierarchy of the modules and categories; 5. The NEUROGES Coding System: Design and Psychometric Properties (Hedda Lausberg); 5.1 The NEUROGES design 5.1.1 The hierarchic structure of the NEUROGES system5.1.2 Module I; 5.1.2.1 The Activation category; 5.1.2.2 The Structure category; 5.1.2.3 The Focus category; 5.1.2.4 Concatenation of the values of the Structure and Focus units; 5.1.3 Module II; 5.1.3.1 The Contact category; 5.1.3.2 Concatenation of the values of the StructureFocus and Contact units; 5.1.3.3 The Formal Relation category; 5.1.4. Module III; 5.1.4.1 The Function category; 5.1.4.2 The Type category; 5.2 Psychometric properties; 5.2.1 Objectivity; 5.2.2 Reliability; 5.2.3 Validity; 5.2.3.1 The Activation category 5.2.3.2 The Structure category.
Headings
- - Body language
- - Movement, Psychology of
- - Nonverbal communication
Notes
- - Includes bibliographical references.
- - Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on 06/29/2020)
Medium
- 1 online resource (343 pages)
Call Number/Physical Location
- BF295
Digital Id
- https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2020394791
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Library of Congress Control Number
- 2020394791
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- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode External
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- Unrestricted online access.
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