Concept

Imagination

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Architectural rehearsal: choreopolitical ecologies within a scripted world

For several decades, the fields of dance and performance have been exploring the interplay between movement, conditioning, subjectivity and politics. If "choreopolice" help describe that conditioning regime, "choreopolitics" describe the ways in which a co ...

EPFL2024

SORI: A softness-rendering interface to unravel the nature of softness perception

Jamie Paik, Mustafa Mete, Hwayeong Jeong

Tactile perception of softness serves a critical role in the survival, well-being, and social interaction among various species, including humans. This perception informs activities from food selection in animals to medical palpation for disease detection ...

Natl Acad Sciences2024

Music influences vividness and content of imagined journeys in a directed visual imagery task

Steffen Alexander Herff, Gabriele Cecchetti, Ken Jacques Alfonso Deguernel

Directed, intentional imagination is pivotal for self-regulation in the form of escapism and therapies for a wide variety of mental health conditions, such anxiety and stress disorders, as well as phobias. Clinical application in particular benefits from i ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2021

Aux portes du monde miroir

Frédéric Kaplan, Isabella Di Lenardo

The Mirror World is no longer an imaginary device, a mirage in a distant future, it is a reality under construction. In Europe, Asia and on the American continent, large companies and the best universities are working to build the infrastructures, to defin ...

2021

Building the Arrow of Time ... Over Time: A Sequence of Brain Activity Mapping Imagined Events in Time and Space

Baptiste Gauthier

When moving, the spatiotemporal unfolding of events is bound to our physical trajectory, and time and space become entangled in episodic memory. When imagining past or future events, or being in different geographical locations, the temporal and spatial di ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC2019

Aesthetic Space

Mirza Tursic

Recent 'turns' in social sciences, namely the visual, qualitative, actorial or spatial turns, all indicate a rising interest in individuals. Since the aesthetic dimension always nourishes and informs individualsâ spatialities and their decision-making pr ...

EPFL2017

Word pair classification during imagined speech using direct brain recordings

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Inaki Asier Iturrate Gil, Stéphanie Martin

People that cannot communicate due to neurological disorders would benefit from an internal speech decoder. Here, we showed the ability to classify individual words during imagined speech from electrocorticographic signals. In a word imagery task, we used ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Literary imagination as a modality of collective space making in Paul Ricœur’s polysemy of action

Caroline Dionne

This paper initiates a discussion on the modalities of action and participation in current architectural practices concerned with agency and the participation of users. Although such approaches to architectural or urban projects currently form a vast and g ...

2015

Imagined own-body transformations during passive self-motion

Olaf Blanke, Michiel van Elk

Spatial perspective taking is a crucial social skill that underlies many of our everyday interactions. Previous studies have suggested that spatial perspective taking is an embodied process that involves the integration of both motor and proprioceptive inf ...

2014

Covert visuospatial attention Brain-Computer Interface for control and rehabilitation

Luca Tonin

At the current stage, Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) represent a promising technology for communication and control of assistive devices as well as for the clinical motor rehabilitation after a stroke. Current BCI systems may be divided in two main typol ...

EPFL2013

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