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Behavioral, Modeling, and Electrophysiological Evidence for Supramodality in Human Metacognition

Human metacognition, or the capacity to introspect on one's own mental states, has been mostly characterized through confidence reports in visual tasks. A pressing question is to what extent results from visual studies generalize to other domains. Answerin ...

2018

Re-creating Memories of Gulou: Three Temporalities and Emotions

Florence Graezer Bideau

In 2012, a project proposed by local authorities aimed to revitalize, after a century of interruption, the use of Beijing’s Bell and Drum Towers and the social traditions associated with it. As a result, more than one hundred households living in 66 tradit ...

2018

Online Obstructive Sleep Apnea Detection on Medical Wearable Sensors

David Atienza Alonso, Amir Aminifar, Francisco Javier Rincon Vallejos, Srinivasan Murali, Grégoire Casimir Joseph Surrel

Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is one of the main under-diagnosed sleep disorder. It is an aggravating factor for several serious cardiovascular diseases, including stroke. There is, however, a lack of medical devices for long-term ambulatory monitoring of ...

2018

Changes in Heart Rate Variability Recorded in Natural Situation with T-Shirt Integrated Sensors and Level of Observed Behavioral Excitation: A Pilot Study of Patients with Intellectual Disabilities and Psychiatric Disorders

Michel Akselrod

Background: The present study investigates the possibilities of using heart rate variability (HRV) parameters as physiological markers that precede increase in observed behavioral excitation of intellectually disabled individuals. The ability to recognize ...

Frontiers Media Sa2017

Brain metabolic alterations in mice subjected to postnatal traumatic stress and in their offspring

João Miguel das Neves Duarte, Alberto Corcoba

Adverse environmental and social conditions early in life have a strong impact on health. They are major risk factors for mental diseases in adulthood and, in some cases, their effects can be transmitted across generations. The consequences of detrimental ...

Sage Publications Inc2017

Impact of dispersion forces on the atomic structure of a prototypical network-forming disordered system: The case of liquid GeSe2

Assil Bouzid, Carlo Massobrio

Aset of structural properties of liquid GeSe2 are calculated by using first-principles molecular dynamics and including, for the first time, van derWaals dispersion forces. None of the numerous atomic-scale simulations performed in the past on this prototy ...

Amer Inst Physics2017

Influence of Facial Feedback and Mind Perception During a Cooperative Human-Robot Task in Schizophrenia

Aude Billard, Mahdi Khoramshahi, Laura Bénédicte Marine Cohen

Rapid progress in the area of humanoid robots offers tremendous possibilities for investigating and improving social competences in people with social deficits, but remains yet unexplored in schizophrenia. In this study, we examined the influence of social ...

2017

Learning Control Over Emotion Networks Through Connectivity-Based Neurofeedback

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Djalel Eddine Meskaldji, Frank Scharnowski, Yury Koush, Gwladys Rey

Most mental functions are associated with dynamic interactions within functional brain networks. Thus, training individuals to alter functional brain networks might provide novel and powerful means to improve cognitive performance and emotions. Using a nov ...

Oxford University Press2017

Nanomechanics of multidomain neuronal cell adhesion protein contactin revealed by single molecule AFM and SMD

Giovanni Dietler, Andrzej Kulik, Karolina Anna Mikulska Ruminska

Contactin-4 (CNTN4) is a complex cell adhesion molecule (CAM) localized at neuronal membranes, playing a key role in maintaining the mechanical integrity and signaling properties of the synapse. CNTN4 consists of six immunoglobulin C2 type (IgC2) domains a ...

Springer Nature2017

[POSTER] Double Reality: Shifting the Gaze Between the Physical Object and Its Digital Representation

Pierre Dillenbourg, Lorenzo Lucignano

We present an eye-tracking study centered on the shift of focus from digital to physical layer in case of a handheld magic-lens system. In particular, we investigate which variables might affect the occurrence of such events. The experiment involved 35 par ...

2017

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