neural correlates of visual consciousness

... role of an increased activity in the occipital cortex while rating visual stimuli as beautiful Fourth, the comparison of the neural correlates of rating beauty and rating preference of visual ... contrast, Chatterjee’s (2003) framework for the Neural correlates of aesthetic preference 381 neural correlates of aesthetic preference is directly grounded on visual neuroscience, which makes it an ideal ... the neural correlates of judging stimuli as beautiful compared to those of judging them as ugly, whereas Jacobsen et al (2006) designed their experiment to identify the neural correlates of judging...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20

... requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Institute of Health and Wellbeing & School of Psychology College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences University of Glasgow November 2014 ... UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW Neural Correlates of Prospective Memory: an EEG and ICA approach Gabriela Paz Cruz San Martín Occupational Therapist Master in Neuroscience Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements ... example, embedding the name of an animal in a list of names of countries leads to better recall and recognition of the animal name than does embedding the name in a list of other animal names” (Schmidt,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2014, 18:32

... most of these studies it is difficult to separate the neural correlates of bottom-up scene segmentation from the neural correlates of matching the target with the stored representation of the ... out of 199) of the pairs This is while 68.04% (66 out of 97) of these pairs also exhibited significant modulations as a function of visual saliency We were also interested in the time course of ... synaptic activity of a large population of neurons (constituting of thousands of neurons) within the region, also it correlates well with subthreshold fluctuations of membrane potentials of these neurons...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 17:53

... NEURONAL CORRELATES OF PERCEPTUAL SALIENCE IN SPIKE TRAINS FROM THE PRIMARY VISUAL CORTEX BONG JIT HON B.Eng.(Hons.), NUS A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY OF ENGINEERING ... examined the representation of visual saliency in the responses of neurons in the primary visual cortex We investigated this by recording from the primary visual cortex of macaque monkeys while ... may be the site of origin for the neuronal correlates of visual salience rather than merely representing feedback signals from extra-striate cortex x List of Tables 4.1 Summary of the single neuron...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 18:55

... to the study of the history of reception, response, or reaction to visual phenomena.5 Also, and this is especially true of the German variety of visual studies, Bildwissenschaft, visual culture ... Subject of Visual Culture In The Visual Culture Reader, 2nd edn, ed Nicholas Mirzoeff, 3–23 London: Routledge Mitchell, W J T 2002 Showing Seeing: A Critique of Visual Culture Journal of Visual ... independent of human (past or present) activity The turn to “affect” enables discussion of the important question of the appeal of works of art, of the emotional and subjective aspects of our encounter...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 07:20

... original material Vocabulary size of the input set, equal to the number of unique words in the input Smaller vocabularies would be characteristic of easier sets Percentage of words used only once in ... background collection may be characteristic of highly noncohesive inputs consisting of unrelated documents Number of topic signature terms for the input set The idea of topic signature terms was introduced ... specifically, there are two possibilities for the distribution of a term t: either it is very indicative of the topic of cluster T , and appears more often in T than in documents from N T , or the term...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 09:20

... concentration range of 30–150 lM (1.3–6.5 mgÆmL)1), 90 lL of arrestin solution was mixed with 10 lL of 10 mM peptide solution to yield a final peptide concentration of mM For higher concentrations of arrestin ... and arrestin in the presence of phosphopeptide is given at the top of the (B) and (C), expressed as a percentage of the total signal from the detector Activation of visual arrestin (Eur J Biochem ... proportional to the product of the molecular mass and concentration of the scattering particle For a mixture of particles, the total forward scattering, I(0)total is equal to the sum of contributions from...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 07:20

... function of the power spectra for channels, x and y, at any given frequency f: Cx,y( f ) = |Sxy( f )|2 Sx( f )*Sy( f ) or the square of the cross-spectrum of the channels divided by the product of ... Levene test for equality of variance The test of parallelism was used to evaluate the homogeneity of regression slopes Path analysis54 was used to test whether the effects of SSBD on cognition were ... coefficient of the independent variable to the dependent variable was smaller than the path coefficient of the me(REPRINTED) ARCH NEUROL / VOL 59, OCT 2002 1616 RESULTS EFFECTS OF AGE ON VOLUMES OF STRUCTURAL...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... subimage _of( W2) prefix _of( W1) = left_part _of( W1) ,~ prefix _of( W2) left_part _of( W2) suf yiz_oy(W1) = right_part _of( W1) ~uy yix_oy(W2 ) right_part _of( W2) suyyiz _of( WQ = right_part _of( W1) ,.~ prefiz _of( W~) ... types of visual inter-word relations listed in the right part of Table Figure is a part of a scanned text image in which a small number of word relations are circled to demonstrate the abundance of ... small fragment of a real text page Word images and are almost the same Word image matches the left part of word image quite well Word image matches a part of the image 6, and so on Visual inter-word...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 07:20

... the rule of thirds, we utilize the region of interest (ROI) extracted as described above Similarly to [8], our measure of the rule of thirds (f9 ) is the minimum distance of the centroid of the ... neither of these data sets was made public To the best of our knowledge, the only dataset in the area of video aesthetics is that used by Luo and Tang [8] It consists of 4000 high quality (professional) ... part of each of the videos in order to reduce potential biases induced by varying video lengths [15] Each of the 1600 videos was viewed by two of the authors who rated the aesthetic appeal of the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 18:20

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 05:22

... f4 ) B Of ine Optimization of Multiple Visual Properties While the optimization of a single visual property leads to highly fit content, it is only through the combination of different visual ... universal properties of form which are ingrained in human perception and important factors of visual taste; such properties determine the visual impact of an object In his book Art and Visual Perception ... GAMES indicative of visual quality; the input of the artificial neural network (ANN) is the entire image and the ANN is trained on a set of computer-generated images The failure of their approach...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20

... Situational context of the dialog The g o a l of this article is to elucidate the representation constructions for case frames and r e f e r e n t i a l semantics of verbs of m o t i o n used ... case frame of each verb the system includes a representation of the r e f e r e n t i a l semantics of predications associated w i t h t h a t verb which makes it possible to ~valuate the ViSual ... referential semantics of the motion concepts Instances of a f l a v o r denote s p e c i f i c events i n the domain of discourse that could be v e r i f i e d by the application of the methods FIND...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 05:21

... monitored Of these eight females, three produced offspring during the study (Table 1) Seven out of 10 breeding attempts resulted in offspring for these three females (one out of three, three out of ... origin and year of birth, number of breeding attempts followed (with copulation confirmed), number of litters produced, number of mating seasons with behavioral data and number of breeding attempts ... with endocrine data Female Year born Origin Number of breeding attempts Number of litters produced Number of seasons with behavioral data Number of breeding attempts with endocrine data 52 54 56...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 16:20

... (vehicle; see Table 1) The fMRI neural signatures of these objects have been found in previous studies to elicit different neural activity The participants were also shown each of the 12 nouns paired ... certain semantic properties of the nouns For instance, in the case of strong dog, the adjective is used to emphasize the visual or physical aspect (e.g muscular) of a dog, as opposed to the behavioral ... temporal properties of fMRI data, we consider here only the spatial distribution of the neural activity after the stimuli are comprehended and not attempt to model the cogntive process of comprehension...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 23:20

... New in NET The IDE in Visual Studio has evolved from a mix of different ancestors It combines the best of Visual InterDev, Visual Basic, and Visual C++ It also throws in some of the attractive new ... open one of them with a single click) However, the other portions of the Start Page offer some interesting frills They consist of information that’s drawn from Microsoft’s own MSDN (Microsoft Developer ... projects from earlier versions of Visual Basic into the new VB NET world So how does Visual Basic 2005 fit into this evolution? Visual Basic 2005 is VB NET 2.0 Microsoft marketers decided that the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/04/2014, 09:17

... Circuits for the Perception of Visual Motion Analog VLSI Circuits for the Perception of Visual Motion Alan A Stocker Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Center for Neural Science, New York University, ... in rendering professional services If professional advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional should be sought Other Wiley Editorial Of ces John Wiley ... presents a principled xii FOREWORD development of a series of analog VLSI chips that go some way toward the solution of some difficult problems of visual perception, such as the Aperture Problem,...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 07:54

... implications of this view of the nature of thought: The Paradox of Self -Consciousness 13 We communicate thoughts by means of language because we have an implicit understanding of the workings of language, ... the deflationary theory of selfconsciousness, and indeed any theory of self -consciousness that accords a serious role in self -consciousness to mastery of the semantics of the first-person pronoun, ... forms of primitive self -consciousness Finally, in chapter 10, I show how a recognition of the existence and nature of these forms of primitive self -consciousness can be used to solve the paradox of...

Ngày tải lên: 05/06/2014, 11:32

... the basis of the functional inactivation of Tax-2 leading to the inhibition of HTLV-2 retrovirus replication Further studies of subcellular localization unveiled the co-localization of Tax-2 and ... distribution of Tax-2 molecules was analyzed in the presence and in the absence of CIITA In the absence of CIITA, Tax-2 localizes both and in the cytoplasm and in the nucleus of 293T cells often with ... et al.: Molecular and cellular correlates of the CIITA-mediated inhibition of HTLV-2 Tax-2 transactivator function resulting in loss of viral replication Journal of Translational Medicine 2011...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... feedback of tracking error, developed using Microsoft DirectX9 The sound feedback was a sequence of tonal beeps, with each beep sampled at a frequency of 800Hz and lasting 0.1sec The frequency of repetition ... baseline levels with the aid of auditory feedback A likely explanation is that introduction of the visual distracter task overloaded the visualmotor channel; provision of feedback through the auditory ... consisted of a green colored dot with a yellow line above appearing at the bottom left of the screen, or a red dot with a yellow line below appearing at the bottom right of the screen The visual...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20