Understanding Body Movement : a Guide to Empirical Research on Nonverbal Behaviour With an Introduction to the NEUROGES Coding System.

Cover
 Editor and list of contributors
 Preface
 Contents
 I. An Interdisciplinary Review on Movement Behaviour Research
 1. Movement Behaviour Research through History and in Current Scientific Disciplines (Hedda Lausberg)
 2. Empirical Research on Movement Behaviour and its Link to Cognitive, Emotional, and Interactive Processes (Hedda Lausberg)
 2.1 Different classes of movement behaviour reflect and affect cognitive, emotional, and interactive processes
 2.1.1 Gesture and spatial cognition
 2.1.2 Self-touch and arousal
 2.1.3 Posture and mood. 2.1.4 Rest positions and quality of interaction2.1.5 Summary
 2.2 Body movements are associated with implicit and explicit cognitive, emotional, and interactive processes
 2.3 Movement behaviour is organized in patterns
 2.4 The temporal dimension of movement units provides insight into the duration of the associated cognitive, emotional, and interactive processes
 2.5 Laterality preferences reflect hemispheric specialization in the production of specific types of limb movements
 2.5.1 The anatomical basis of assessing hemispheric specialization based on laterality preference. 2.5.2 Laterality preferences for gesture types in split-brain patients2.5.3 Laterality preferences for different movement types in healthy individuals
 2.5.4 Summary
 2.6 Conclusions for movement behaviour research methodology
 3. Movement Behaviour Analysis across Scientific Disciplines (Hedda Lausberg)
 3.1 Some common shortcomings in movement behaviour analysis methodology
 3.2 Criteria for the review on coding systems
 3.3 Comprehensive descriptive systems
 3.4 Systems that classify movements according to function
 3.5 Systems that register alterations in movement behaviour. 3.5.1 Movement psychopathology3.5.2 Apraxia
 3.6 Summary
 II. The NEUROGES Coding System
 4. The Aims and the Development of the NEUROGES Coding System (Hedda Lausberg)
 4.1 Aims of the NEUROGES System
 4.2 Application
 4.3 Criteria for the development
 4.4 Methods of development
 4.5 Development of the modules, categories, and values, and of the hierarchy
 4.5.1 Module I
 4.5.2 Module II
 4.5.3 Module III
 4.5.4 The hierarchy of the modules and categories
 5. The NEUROGES Coding System: Design and Psychometric Properties (Hedda Lausberg)
 5.1 The NEUROGES design. 5.1.1 The hierarchic structure of the NEUROGES system5.1.2 Module I
 5.1.2.1 The Activation category
 5.1.2.2 The Structure category
 5.1.2.3 The Focus category
 5.1.2.4 Concatenation of the values of the Structure and Focus units
 5.1.3 Module II
 5.1.3.1 The Contact category
 5.1.3.2 Concatenation of the values of the StructureFocus and Contact units
 5.1.3.3 The Formal Relation category
 5.1.4. Module III
 5.1.4.1 The Function category
 5.1.4.2 The Type category
 5.2 Psychometric properties
 5.2.1 Objectivity
 5.2.2 Reliability
 5.2.3 Validity
 5.2.3.1 The Activation category.