Thesis (Ph.D.)--Murdoch University, 2003. / Thesis submitted to the Division of Arts. Includes bibliography.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Alberta, 2009. / Title from pdf file main screen (viewed on August 11, 2009). "A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Department of Psychology, University of Alberta." Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of Recreation Management and Youth Leadership, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Texas, Aug., 2007. / Title from title page display. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Purdue University, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 15-18). Also available online (PDF file) by a subscription to the set or by purchasing the individual file.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Duquesne University, 2007. / Title from document title page. Abstract included in electronic submission form. Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-158) and index.

Thesis advisor: Sam V. Cochran, Elizabeth M. Altmaier. Includes bibliographic references (p. 117-130).

Thesis (M.A. (English Language & Linguistics)) - Rhodes University, 2007.

This study is going to discuss and investigate in the phenomenological slope, the perception of the body, as an expressive unit of thinking, feeling and acting, facing to the social and cultural implication of the representation, appropriation and interpretation of this dimension in the pedagogic process of the human education, in the history of teacher s life. In this course, the macro and micro scenery of history is going to evoke the emotional, symbolic and aesthetic aspects of gesture, attitudes and habits, Beyond of the problematic values and behavior of society, ratify the individual identity, collective and social of the teacher on the mythical ritual, the festivity while memory and the fantasy while hope of the ontological creative sense natural and human of the historical being. The facts shown in the body s memory research, living in the affective and social relations sphere of the oral sources, will propose and ethical, harmonic, organic and sensible way of existence, a shared identity that discovers in the Phi sis and Greek Paidéas a solid human education to rethink about the education professional s graduations curriculums.The myth, the work and art, the parable and the autobiography, the infringement and resistance of the dialects process to the observer-researcher to reflect and to dare the immanence language in the complexity, in the systematic thinking, in the oriental cosmo vision philosophy. / Este estudo vai discutir e investigar na vertente fenomenológica, a percepção do corpo, como unidade expressiva do pensar, sentir e agir, face às implicações sociais e culturais da representação, apropriação e interpretação desta dimensão no processo pedagógico da formação humana nas narrativas das histórias de vida do Professor. Nesta trajetória, o cenário macro e micro da historiografia vai evocar os aspectos emocional, simbólico e estético dos gestos, hábitos, estilos e atitudes, para além de problematizar os valores e comportamentos da sociedade, além de ratificar a identidade individual, coletiva e social do professor no ritual mítico, da festividade enquanto memória e da fantasia enquanto esperança do sentido criativo ontológico, natural e humano do ente histórico.Os fatos revelados na pesquisa da memória do corpo próprio, vivido nas esferas das relações sociais e afetivas das fontes orais, vão propor um jeito de existir, ético, harmônico, orgânico e sensível, uma identidade partilhada, que redescobre na Phisis e na Paidéia Grega um modelo de formação para repensar os currículos da formação do profissional de educação. O discurso, por vezes, hermético e anárquico, envolve a imagem, a metáfora, o mito, a obra e a arte, a parábola e a auto biografia no processo dialético de resistência e transgressões aos emolduramentos da realidade sensível na corporalidade do observador pesquisador, para refletir e ousar a imanência e a transcendência de outras dimensões, percepções e valores na linguagem acadêmica, no viés da complexidade, do pensamento sistêmico e na filosofia da cosmovisão oriental.

Although previous studies have suggested a certain degree of right hemisphere dominance for the response of extrastriate body area (EBA) during body perception, recent evidence suggests that this functional lateralization may differ between men and women. It is unknown, however, whether and how gender differences in body perception affect appreciating the beauty of the body of conspecifics. Here, we applied five 10-Hz repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) pulses over left and right EBA and over the vertex to investigate the contribution of visual body representations in the two hemispheres on esthetic body perception. Female and male healthy volunteers were requested to judge how much they liked opposite- and same-gender virtual model bodies or to judge their weight, thus allowing us to compare the effects of right- and left-EBA rTMS on esthetic (liking) and perceptual (weight) judgments of human bodies. The analysis of the esthetic judgments provided by women revealed that right-EBA rTMS increased the liking judgments of opposite- but not same-gender models, as compared to both vertex and left EBA stimulation. Conversely, in men the liking judgments of opposite-gender models decreased after virtual disruption of both right and left EBA as compared to vertex stimulation. Crucially, no significant effect was found for the perceptual task, showing that left- and right-EBA rTMS did not affect weight perception. Our results provide evidence of gender difference in the hemispheric asymmetry of EBA in the esthetic processing of human bodies, with women showing stronger right hemisphere dominance in comparison with men.