Human Body
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Functional specialization and convergence in the occipito-temporal cortex supporting haptic and visual identification of human faces and body parts: an fMRI study.

29 Sep 2009 Humans can recognize common objects by touch extremely well whenever vision is unavailable. Despite its importance to a thorough understanding of human object recognition, the neuroscientific study of this topic has been relatively neglected. To ... Read more...

[Medicines and the body: what is it consumers think and know about medicines - the impact of field information]

13 Jul 2009 There is poor knowledge about how medicines act in the body. Information made by defined rules, can improve such bad knowledge. In a primary care setting, the result of an intervention campaign by written and audiovisual techniques about ... Read more...

Whose body is it anyway? Verbalization, embodiment, and the creation of narratives.

29 Apr 2009 This article examines the creation of narratives between people with severe disabilities and the personnel working with them. It shows that although a co-created narrative of what it means to be severely disabled (the story of dependence) seems to ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Human Body'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Functional specialization and convergence in the occipito-temporal cortex supporting haptic and visual identification of human faces and body parts: an fMRI study. 29 Sep 2009
• Bioengineered bodies and the moral imagination. 17 Sep 2009
• [Medicines and the body: what is it consumers think and know about medicines - the impact of field information] 13 Jul 2009
• Whose body is it anyway? Verbalization, embodiment, and the creation of narratives. 29 Apr 2009
• Tracking biocultural pathways in population health: the value of biomarkers. 29 Apr 2009
• Losing your head: behavioral and electrophysiological effects of body inversion. 29 Apr 2009
• Neuromagnetic response to body motion and brain connectivity. 29 Apr 2009
• Vulnerability and ethics: considering our Cartesian hangover. 9 Apr 2009
• View-independent behavior analysis. 22 Mar 2009
• Visual processing of moving and static self body-parts. 16 Mar 2009
• Where is your shoulder? Neural correlates of localizing others' body parts. 7 Mar 2009
• Segmentation and accuracy in copying and drawing: experts and beginners. Mar 2009
• [The ideal body: media pedagogy] 27 Feb 2009
• [From sensitive to intelligible: new communicational ways in healthcare with the study of Quantum Theory] 27 Feb 2009
• Inherited understandings: the breast as object. 27 Feb 2009
• Quantifying female bodily attractiveness by a statistical analysis of body measurements. 27 Feb 2009
• The "spare parts person"? Conceptions of the human body and their implications for public attitudes towards organ donation and organ sale. 16 Feb 2009
• Neural representations of faces and body parts in macaque and human cortex: a comparative FMRI study. 16 Feb 2009
• Three sequential brain activations encode mental transformations of upright and inverted human bodies: a high resolution evoked potential study. 11 Feb 2009
• Brainhood, anthropological figure of modernity. 30 Jan 2009

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Technical information about 'Human Body'

Definition: The human being as a non-anatomical and non-zoological entity. The emphasis is on the philosophical or artistic treatment of the human being, and includes lay and social attitudes toward the body in history. (From J. Cassedy, NLM History of Medicine Division)

Descriptor UI: D018594

Alternative terms: Human Body; Bodies, Human; Human Bodies; Human Figure; Figure, Human; Figures, Human; Human Figures; Body, Human; Body Parts and Fluids; Body Parts; Parts, Body;

Tree Number: I01.076.201.450.560; K01.093.378;

History Note: 95

Technical Notes: the human body as a whole, viewed from an artistic, cultural, historical, or social perspective; no qualif