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that is, there is, in the true sense, only a visual space ''.
Therefore, if the sense of touch is functioning normally and there is a complete absence of spatial awareness in a psychically-blind person when the eyes are closed and an object is handled, the conclusion seems unavoidable that touch by itself cannot focus and take possession of the third-dimensionality of things and that actual sight or visual representations are necessary.
If the argument is accepted as essentially sound up to this point, it remains for us to consider whether the patient's difficulties in orienting himself spatially and in locating objects in space with the sense of touch can be explained by his defective visual condition.
If the patient can perceive figure kinesthetically when he cannot perceive it visually, then, it would seem, the sense of touch has immediate contact with the spatial aspects of things in independence of visual representations, at least in regard to two dimensions, and, as we shall see, even this much spatial awareness on the part of unaided touch is denied by the authors.
It was far better television than it had to be ; during an era of formulaic domestic sitcoms and wacky comedies, it was a stylistically ambitious show, with a distinctive visual style, absurdist sense of humour and unusual story structure.
In 1739 and 1748, David Hume published A Treatise of Human Nature and An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, arguing for the associations and causes of ideas with visual images, in some sense forerunners to the language of film.
# The visual sense: the opsins use a photoisomerization reaction to translate electromagnetic radiation into cellular signals.
In other words vision is not as simple as light registering on a medium, since the brain has to make sense of the visual data the eye provides and construct a coherent picture of reality.
* Dysfunction: depending on the tumor location and the damage it may have caused to surrounding brain structures, either through compression or infiltration, any type of focal neurologic symptoms may occur, such as cognitive and behavioral impairment ( including impaired judgment, memory loss, lack of recognition, spatial orientation disorders ), personality or emotional changes, hemiparesis, hypoesthesia, aphasia, ataxia, visual field impairment, impaired sense of smell, impaired hearing, facial paralysis, double vision, dizziness, but more severe symptoms might occur too such as: paralysis on one side of the body hemiplegia or impairment to swallow.
Said was mainly concerned with literature in the widest sense, especially French literature, and did not cover visual art and Orientalist painting, though others, notably Linda Nochlin, have tried to extend his analysis to art, " with uneven results ".
Subjective effects may include altered thinking processes, an altered sense of time and self-awareness, and closed and open-eye visual phenomena.
Ball was also keen ; having seen Cabaret, he was impressed with Mendes ' " keen visual sense " and thought he did not make obvious choices.
These are objects that can be evacuated or used for a kind of thinking that depends on manipulation of what are felt to be things in themselves as if to substitute such manipulations for words or ideas ... Alpha-function transforms sense impressions into alpha-elements which resemble, and may in fact be identical with, the visual images with which we are familiar in dreams, namely, the elements that Freud regards as yielding their latent content when the analyst has interpreted them.
Dedekind used the German word Schnitt ( cut ) in a visual sense rooted in Euclidean geometry.
This is followed by a plateau phase, where the subjective sense of time begins to slow and the visual effects increase in intensity.
Distortions in visual perception during a temporal lobe seizure may include size distortion ( micropsia or macropsia ), distorted perception of movement ( where moving objects may appear to be moving very slowly or to be perfectly still ), a sense that surfaces such as ceilings and even entire horizons are moving farther away in a fashion similar to the dolly zoom effect, and other illusions.
Hallucinations can be caused by sense deprivation when it occurs for prolonged periods of time, and almost always occur in the modality being deprived ( visual for blindfolded / darkness, auditory for muffled conditions, etc.
In this specialty, computer engineers focus on developing visual sensing technology to sense an environment, representation of an environment, and manipulation of the environment.
The eyes ( visual system ), ears ( vestibular system ) and the body's sense of where it is in space ( proprioception ) need to be intact.
), tendonitis, seizures, visual disturbances ( blurring, halo effect, inability to focus ), extreme anxiety, panic and / or anger, sleep disturbance, suppression of immune system, digestive difficulties, nausea, indigestion / heartburn, vomiting, diarrhea, joint pains, vertigo / dizziness, abnormally acute sense of smell ( hyperosmia ), sensitivity to natural plant fragrance or natural pine terpenes, insomnia, dry mouth, dry eyes, and an overactive bladder.
When one spins and stops suddenly, fluid in the inner ear continues to rotate causing a sense of continued spinning while one's visual system no longer detects motion.
This helps to re-orient the inner sense of balance by providing a visual reaffirmation of motion.
Balance is the result of a number of body systems working together: the eyes ( visual system ), ears ( vestibular system ) and the body's sense of where it is in space ( proprioception ) ideally need to be intact.
Reviewer Todd Everett noted that it had the same " hyperdrive visual sense " of Bakshi's animated films.

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Down through the axis of the bridge there is a long diminishing vista like a visual echo of piers and arches, while the vaults fronting upstream and down frame the sunset and sunrise, the mountains and river pools.
Another element to concern the choreographer is that of the visual devices of the theatre.
By `` image '' is meant not only a visual presentation, but also remembered sensations of any of the five senses plus the feelings which are immediately conjoined therewith.
Beginning in Cloth Of The Tempest ( 1943 ) he experimented in merging poetry and visual art, using drawings to carry long narrative segments of a story, as in Sleepers Awake, and constructing elaborate `` poems-in-drawing-and-type '' in which it is impossible to distinguish between the `` art '' and the poetry.
A summary of meteorite data, prepared by Whipple ( 1958 ) on the basis of photographic, visual, and radar evidence, is given in Table 5-1.
Psychical blindness is a condition in which there is a total absence of visual memory-images, a condition in which, for example, one is unable to remember something just seen or to conjure up a memory-picture of the visible appearance of a well-known friend in his absence.
The meaning of this, as we shall see, is that he had no fund of visual memory-images of objects as objects ; ;
The basic mystery of dreams, which embraces all the others and challenges us from even the most common typical dream, is in the fact that they are original, visual continuities.
It is an over-all impression Mr. Sansom strives for, an impression compounded of visual details, of a savory mixture of smells, of much loving attention to architecture and scenery, of lights and shadows, of intangibles of atmosphere and of echoes of the past.
Using visual imagery of a soroban, one can arrive at the answer in the same time as, or even faster than, is possible with a physical instrument.
* Robert Owen Evans is a minister of the Uniting Church in Australia and an amateur astronomer who holds the all-time record for visual discoveries of supernovae.
Art is a term that describes a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities, but here refers to the visual arts, which cover the creation of images or objects in fields including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and other visual media.
Architecture is often included as one of the visual arts ; however, like the decorative arts, it creates objects where the practical considerations of use are essential — in a way that they are usually not for a painting, for example.
The table itself is a visual representation of the periodic law, which states that certain chemical properties of elements repeat periodically when arranged by atomic number.
Sensory ataxia presents itself with an unsteady " stomping " gait with heavy heel strikes, as well as a postural instability that is usually worsened when the lack of proprioceptive input cannot be compensated for by visual input, such as in poorly lit environments.

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However, such fights are usually discouraged by visual displays, in which the males bulge their necks, roll their eyes and hold their horns in a vertical position while slowly pacing back and forth in front of the other male.
The art usually acts as a visual metaphor to illustrate a point of view on current social and / or political topics.
Clones of board games must use computer generated dice ; the values are usually determined by a pseudorandom number generator, then displayed as a visual representation of a die.
These shows have featured large collections of his gridfonts, his ambigrams ( pieces of calligraphy created with two readings, either of which is usually obtained from the other by rotating or reflecting the ambigram, but sometimes simply by " oscillation ", like the Necker Cube or the rabbit / duck figure of Joseph Jastrow ), and his " Whirly Art " ( music-inspired visual patterns realized using shapes based on various alphabets from India ).
Seizures in BOEC usually feature visual symptoms such as scotoma or fortifications ( brightly colored spots or lines ) or amaurosis ( blindness or impairment of vision ).
Sound, music, and ( more recently ) visual effects editors dealt with the practicalities of other aspects of the editing process, usually under the direction of the picture editor and director.
These temporary elements are usually replaced with more refined final elements by the sound, music, and visual effects teams hired to complete the picture.
Galaxies have been historically categorized according to their apparent shape ; usually referred to as their visual morphology.
It usually refers to printed manga, but can also refer to any type of visual work depicting copyrighted characters, including video games, animation, and CG artwork.
The technique is capable of producing a very high degree of visual realism, usually higher than that of typical scanline rendering methods, but at a greater computational cost.
* The visual quality of a soap opera is usually lower than prime time US television drama series due to the lower budgets and quicker production times.
The memorial photograph of the deceased was taken to create the last visual remembrance of the person, and would usually be displayed in the drawing room afterward.
Competitive bands however, many times opt for matching pants and shoes ( usually white or black ) to hide the visual effect of members who are out of step as seen from a distance.
In competitions, bands are usually judged on criteria such as musicality, uniformity, visual impact, artistic interpretation, and the difficulty of the music and drill.
Walls are usually barriers made from solid brick or concrete, blocking vision as well as passage, while fences are used more frequently to provide visual sectioning of spaces.
* A symbol, such as a stylized letter or visual icon, usually on the chest.
The radiation from the protostar and early star has to be observed in infrared astronomy wavelengths, as the extinction caused by the rest of the cloud in which the star is forming is usually too big to allow us to observe it in the visual part of the spectrum.
Their visual counterpart is the feeling of being looked-stared at, usually with malicious intent.
Scenic or " panoramic " hallucinations, which are not superimposed but vividly replace the entire visual field with hallucinatory content similarly to dreams ; such scenic hallucinations may occur in epilepsy ( in which they are usually stereotyped and experimental in character ), hallucinogen use, and more rarely in catatonic schizophrenia ( cf.
The hallucinations can usually be dispersed by opening or closing the eyelids until the visual images disappear.
They are usually unilateral and localized to one part of the visual field on the ipsilateral side of the seizure focus, typically the temporal field.
If an internal wikilink leads to a page that does not exist, it usually has a distinct visual appearance.

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