Sentence examples for competing representations of from inspiring English sources

Blackface generated meanings that could not be controlled by black subjects, given that they did not have the means to provide competing representations of blackness.

Lynda Hart, one of the authors of Acting Out: Feminist Performances, felt that the video "alternated between two competing representations of Madonna... Charging coercion, both sides make the video as an invitation to a certain way of life, in the process denying it the stylistic invocation of a rhetoric of self-authorization".

Therefore, an alternative explanation for the present results is that the TPJ may be involved in controlling competing representations (regardless of modality) when there is a high degree of overlap between these representations, and thus, greater selectivity is required to inhibit one representation and to excite another.

Legal proceedings serve in effect as "agonistic fields" (Latour and Woolgar 1986) or fields of contestation, in which experts debate the merits of competing representations and the techniques that produced them.

Adjudication, after all, is essentially a process of evaluating competing representations.

This suggests that if the level of incongruence between two competing representations increases, neural competition increases, possibly resulting in more frequent alternations.

First, visual motion perception relies on competing representations in opponent directions.

Each competing representation receives activation from other sources: deliberate attention activates representations of the intended task via 'top-down control' (or 'concentration'); while bottom-up involuntary influences (established emotional processing biases or well-practiced negative habits of thought) activate distracting threat representations.

Using attitudinal data on legislators' perceptions and attitudes, the study shows that representatives often feel a tension between different, competing foci of representation – mainly party representation versus all other foci.

Grush notes that his interpretation of such cases is similar in some respects to the multiple drafts model of Dennett (1991: ch. 5 6), but the trajectory estimation model is not committed to a plurality of competing simultaneous representations.

Since this automatically decreases the probability that the opposing neural population wins the competition, it illustrates that even a unilateral manipulation of stimulus strength in binocular rivalry is still a relative manipulation at the relevant level of competing neural representations.