Rice, NC State win NAS/Keck Futures funding
...es, universities, and the general public with the object of stimulating interdisciplinary research at the most exciting frontiers. Launched in 2003, the initiative is designed to enable researchers from different disciplines to focus on new questions upon which they can base entirely new research, and to e...Spinoff company receives $2.5 million NIH grant to build prototype scanner
...tempts to capture the image of a three-dimensional object on a two-dimensional detector. In the resulting images, small tumors located in the middle of the breast may be lost among the overlapping layers of healthy tissue above and below (structural overlap). "CBCT eliminates structural overlap for a clear...New haptics systems challenge stroke patients to grasp, pinch, squeeze their way to recovery
...e allows patients to feel the sensation of a solid object in their palms," said Yeh, who develops some of the "special effects" computer graphics for these interfaces. "Among the tasks they might be able to perform are picking up a glass and inverting it to pour the liquid out or picking up books and stack...'Hollow-face illusion' affects estimates of distance and reaching tasks
...ents differently. This stresses the importance of object recognition even for very simple motor tasks and shows that humans perform these actions in a more complex way than, for example, typical applications in robotics which do not take into account prior knowledge about objects."...Mental processing is continuous, not like a computer
...rvature of the trajectory shows how much the other object is competing for their interpretation; the curve shows continuous competition. They sort of partially heard the word both ways, and their resolution of the ambiguity was gradual rather than discrete; it's a dynamical system." The computer metaphor d...Habit leads to learning, new VA/UCSD study shows
...lled EP and GP, participated in a series of simple object discrimination tasks. Both individuals have severe...of the correct object, and could be read after the object was picked up and turned over. At the beginning of each session, the volunteers had no recollection ...'Noise' affects how brain directs body to move
...w accurately the animals actually tracked a moving object and how accurately the brain perceived the trajectory. Findings showed that both the smooth pursuit system and the brain's perceptual system were nearly equal. "This teaches us that these very different neural processes are limited to the same deg...Rutgers-Newark psychology researchers reveal link between body and action perception
...to determine whether or not the person lifting the object was deceived about its weight, the patients couldn...om abstraction to re-discover the human body as an object of art."...Psychologists find more sensitive tests for predicting Alzheimer's as well as changes in cognition
...d earlier in an illogical interaction with another object or cue. On the word-pair memory test, people destined to develop Alzheimer's disease didn't do any better when words were related than when they weren't. The authors think these participants may already have lost key knowledge of word attributes ...Penn study finds physically abused boys may be more likely to commit domestic violence as adults
... old. Examples of abuse include being hit with an object or being kicked, bit, choked, burned, scalded, or punched. (Other studies have shown abuse prevalence of 28% in male college graduates and 51% in active duty soldiers in the United States Army.) The study also found that approximately 75% of the ide......When the wanted item cannot be compared to another object or the evaluation depends on feelings, people become magnitude insensitive. This occurs in what the authors call single-evaluation mode-- where only one stimulus is presented and it is evaluated in isolation. Basically, when we don't know what we ar...Mental stress may be another culprit in raising cholesterol levels in healthy adults
... of colors were displayed in incorrect colors. The object of the task was to match the name of the color to the target word. The other task used was mirror tracing, which required the participant to trace a star seen in a mirror image. The participants were told to focus more on accuracy than on speed in bo...Report shows steep rise in support for health charities that don't fund animal tests
...rch analyst. "Our report shows that most Americans object to animals being used in medical research, especially when more effective and humane methods such as cell and tissue testing, computer-based modeling, and simulation are available." Key findings: Seventy-one percent of respondents polled in 2005 sa...Education needed to reduce snowmobile injuries in children
...jection from the snowmobile, striking a stationary object or being struck by a car. The primary cause of injury was a fall or ejection. Analysis of those treated found 98 percent had orthopedic injuries; 28 percent, abdominal injuries; 19 percent, head injuries; 14 percent, thoracic injuries; 14 percent, sk...Visual research seeks to cut through clutter
...ze objects in such unlikely simple settings as one object on a plain background, Bravo's work acknowledges t...ates in clutter are also affected by the number of object parts," Bravo says. "In sparse displays, people process whole objects. In clutter displays, people...In the mind's eye: How the brain makes a whole out of parts
... has to construct an internal representation of an object from disparate pieces." In the long term, understanding exactly how the brain processes information may lead to neural prostheses artificial replacements for lost sensory, motor and perhaps even memory and cognitive functions. In the short term, suc......that the seemingly simple act of feeling out a 3-D object requires three different types of code. Rats' whi...w does the rat's brain map out a three-dimensional object using this movement? Sensing begins in the neurons at the whiskers' bases, which then fire signals o...Dartmouth study finds how the brain interprets the intent of others
...amilton. "When you see another person reach for an object that they want, like a cookie, a bit of brain called the anterior intraparietal sulcus, which is found in the parietal lobe, is strongly activated." She explains that their result is surprising because many would have predicted that the frontal corte...Stroke patients regain ability to communicate through use of speech generating device
...nstance how well they can repeat a word or name an object from a line drawing), and the Communication Effectiveness Index (CETI) that measures how well a patient communicates in everyday life out in the community. These assessments were done upon intake and then again at discharge from the study. The patien...