Columbia College Chicago

About: Columbia College Chicago is a education organization based out in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Dance & Higher education. The organization has 180 authors who have published 296 publications receiving 2700 citations.

Just a little “froth”: Tracing Greenspan's ideology

Abstract: Although not receiving the attention it deserves, Greenspan's rhetorical rationalization of the extraordinary developments in the housing market contributed significantly to its unsustainable expansion between 2002 and 2006. His rhetorical campaign served to justify his regulatory inaction, much like the language masking the stock market bubble of the 1920s. Informed by this historical pattern, this paper offers a rhetorical analysis of the housing market developments as represented in Alan Greenspan's last speech on the housing market in September 2005, near the peak of the housing market euphoria, as the Fed's outgoing chairman. Although Greenspan explicitly recognized many signs of the bubble, his ideology prevented him from making necessary inferences regarding the true extent and potential ramifications of the bubble burst for the broader economy.

Laban: A guide figure between dance/movement therapy and drama therapy

Abstract: The field of Creative Arts Therapies stands to benefit from ongoing support and collaboration between practices that comprise the disciplines. Both dance/movement therapy (DMT) and drama therapy (DT) draw upon a creative, action-oriented, and embodied approach to psychotherapy; however, a review of the literature indicates minimal collaboration on theory and research between the two. Through an in-depth review of the literature and a supporting case study, a theoretical model is constructed proposing that Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) and Role Theory and role method may be a natural point of intersection, enriching each discipline and presenting implications for creative arts therapies praxis.

Investigation in the laboratory of mucous trail detection in the terrestrial pulmonate snail Mesodon thyroidus (Say, 1817) (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Polygyridae)*

Abstract: Many gastropods, including limpets, periwinkles, and mud snails, detect and follow mucous trails The stylommatophoran pulmonate snail Mesodon thyroidus follow conspecific trails in the field, potentially following in the direction they were laid, as has been demonstrated for other pulmonates This study investigated whether individuals of M thyroidus directionally follows conspecific trails, and whether substrate type or incline influences trail following Trail following was quantified on plexiglas and glass surfaces at horizontal, vertical, and 45° inclines On horizontal plexiglas surfaces, 36% of M thyroidus followed a marker trail made by a conspecific (n = 11) On horizontal glass surfaces, 45% of the snails followed a marker trail (n = 20) On glass (all inclines combined) 75% of snails that followed a conspecific trail followed it in the same direction it was laid (n = 60) On plexiglas (all inclines combined) 86% of trail-following proceeded in the direction the trail was laid (n = 33) The di

A New Rhynchosaur (Reptilia, Archosauromorpha) from the Upper Triassic of Eastern North America

Abstract: This paper provides a description and analysis of cranial remains of a rhynchosaur from the Upper Triassic Evangeline Member of the Wolfville Formation of Nova Scotia, Canada. This material, primar...

Predicting the timing of dynamic events through sound: Bouncing balls

Abstract: Dynamic information in acoustical signals produced by bouncing objects is often used by listeners to predict the objects’ future behavior (e.g., hitting a ball). This study examined factors that affect the accuracy of motor responses to sounds of real-world dynamic events. In experiment 1, listeners heard 2–5 bounces from a tennis ball, ping-pong, basketball, or wiffle ball, and would tap to indicate the time of the next bounce in a series. Across ball types and number of bounces, listeners were extremely accurate in predicting the correct bounce time (CT) with a mean prediction error of only 2.58% of the CT. Prediction based on a physical model of bouncing events indicated that listeners relied primarily on temporal cues when estimating the timing of the next bounce, and to a lesser extent on the loudness and spectral cues. In experiment 2, the timing of each bounce pattern was altered to correspond to the bounce timing pattern of another ball, producing stimuli with contradictory acoustic cues. Nevertheless, listeners remained highly accurate in their estimates of bounce timing. This suggests that listeners can adopt their estimates of bouncing-object timing based on acoustic cues that provide most veridical information about dynamic aspects of object behavior.