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Journal articles on the topic "Visual dorsal stream"

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Kaas, Jon H., and Mary K. L. Baldwin. "The Evolution of the Pulvinar Complex in Primates and Its Role in the Dorsal and Ventral Streams of Cortical Processing." Vision 4, no. 1 (2019): 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vision4010003.

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Current evidence supports the view that the visual pulvinar of primates consists of at least five nuclei, with two large nuclei, lateral pulvinar ventrolateral (PLvl) and central lateral nucleus of the inferior pulvinar (PIcl), contributing mainly to the ventral stream of cortical processing for perception, and three smaller nuclei, posterior nucleus of the inferior pulvinar (PIp), medial nucleus of the inferior pulvinar (PIm), and central medial nucleus of the inferior pulvinar (PIcm), projecting to dorsal stream visual areas for visually directed actions. In primates, both cortical streams a

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Bernardino, Inês, José Rebola, Reza Farivar, Eduardo Silva, and Miguel Castelo-Branco. "Functional Reorganization of the Visual Dorsal Stream as Probed by 3-D Visual Coherence in Williams Syndrome." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 26, no. 11 (2014): 2624–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00662.

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Object and depth perception from motion cues involves the recruitment of visual dorsal stream brain areas. In 3-D structure-from-motion (SFM) perception, motion and depth information are first extracted in this visual stream to allow object categorization, which is in turn mediated by the ventral visual stream. Such interplay justifies the use of SFM paradigms to understand dorsal–ventral integration of visual information. The nature of such processing is particularly interesting to be investigated in a neurological model of cognitive dissociation between dorsal (impaired) and ventral stream (

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Mitchell, Teresa V., and Helen J. Neville. "Asynchronies in the Development of Electrophysiological Responses to Motion and Color." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 16, no. 8 (2004): 1363–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/0898929042304750.

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Recent reports have documented greater plasticity in the dorsal visual stream as compared with the ventral visual stream. This study sought to test the hypothesis that this greater plasticity may be related to a more protracted period of development in the dorsal as compared with the ventral stream. Age-related effects on event-related potentials (ERPs) elicited by motion and color stimuli, designed to activate the two visual streams, were assessed in healthy individuals aged 6 years through adulthood. Although significant developmental effects were observed in amplitudes of ERPs to both color

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Njemanze, Philip, Mathias Kranz, and Peter Brust. "Fourier Analysis of Cerebral Metabolism of Glucose: Gender Differences in Mechanisms of Color Processing in the Ventral and Dorsal Streams in Mice." Forecasting 1, no. 1 (2018): 135–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/forecast1010010.

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Conventional imaging methods could not distinguish processes within the ventral and dorsal streams. The application of Fourier time series analysis was helpful to segregate changes in the ventral and dorsal streams of the visual system in male and female mice. The present study measured the accumulation of [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose ([18F]FDG) in the mouse brain using small animal positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging (PET/MRI) during light stimulation with blue and yellow filters, compared to during conditions of darkness. Fourier analysis was performed using mean standardi

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Goodale, Mel. "Pointing the way to a unified theory of action and perception." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20, no. 4 (1997): 749–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x9732161x.

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Deictic coding offers a useful model for understanding the interactions between the dorsal and ventral streams of visual processing in the cerebral cortex. By extending Ballard et al.'s ideas on teleassistance, I show how dedicated low-level visuomotor processes in the dorsal stream might be engaged for the services of high-level cognitive operations in the ventral stream.

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Zachariou, Valentinos, Roberta Klatzky, and Marlene Behrmann. "Ventral and Dorsal Visual Stream Contributions to the Perception of Object Shape and Object Location." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 26, no. 1 (2014): 189–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00475.

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Growing evidence suggests that the functional specialization of the two cortical visual pathways may not be as distinct as originally proposed. Here, we explore possible contributions of the dorsal “where/how” visual stream to shape perception and, conversely, contributions of the ventral “what” visual stream to location perception in human adults. Participants performed a shape detection task and a location detection task while undergoing fMRI. For shape detection, comparable BOLD activation in the ventral and dorsal visual streams was observed, and the magnitude of this activation was correl

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Kristensen, Stephanie, Frank E. Garcea, Bradford Z. Mahon, and Jorge Almeida. "Temporal Frequency Tuning Reveals Interactions between the Dorsal and Ventral Visual Streams." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 28, no. 9 (2016): 1295–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00969.

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Visual processing of complex objects is supported by the ventral visual pathway in the service of object identification and by the dorsal visual pathway in the service of object-directed reaching and grasping. Here, we address how these two streams interact during tool processing, by exploiting the known asymmetry in projections of subcortical magnocellular and parvocellular inputs to the dorsal and ventral streams. The ventral visual pathway receives both parvocellular and magnocellular input, whereas the dorsal visual pathway receives largely magnocellular input. We used fMRI to measure tool

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Cahill, Kyle, Timothy Jordan, and Mukesh Dhamala. "Connectivity in the Dorsal Visual Stream Is Enhanced in Action Video Game Players." Brain Sciences 14, no. 12 (2024): 1206. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci14121206.

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Action video games foster competitive environments that demand rapid spatial navigation and decision-making. Action video gamers often exhibit faster response times and slightly improved accuracy in vision-based sensorimotor tasks. Background/Objectives: However, the underlying functional and structural changes in the two visual streams of the brain that may be contributing to these cognitive improvements have been unclear. Methods: Using functional and diffusion MRI data, this study investigated the differences in connectivity between gamers who play action video games and nongamers in the do

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Chen, Qi, Ralph Weidner, Peter H. Weiss, John C. Marshall, and Gereon R. Fink. "Neural Interaction between Spatial Domain and Spatial Reference Frame in Parietal–Occipital Junction." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 24, no. 11 (2012): 2223–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00260.

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On the basis of double dissociations in clinical symptoms of patients with unilateral visuospatial neglect, neuropsychological research distinguishes between different spatial domains (near vs. far) and different spatial reference frames (egocentric vs. allocentric). In this fMRI study, we investigated the neural interaction between spatial domains and spatial reference frames by constructing a virtual three-dimensional world and asking participants to perform either allocentric or egocentric judgments on an object located in either near or far space. Our results suggest that the parietal–occi

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Hirayama, Kazumi, and Katsuhiko Takeda. "What is the dorsal visual stream doing ?" Higher Brain Function Research 35, no. 2 (2015): 197–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.2496/hbfr.35.197.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Visual dorsal stream"

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Pauls, K. Amande M. "The visual dorsal stream and reading." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.418474.

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Hajj, Joëlle. "Perceptual Ability is Diminished at Peak Limb Velocity of a Goal-directed Movement But is Unaffected During Motor Preparation." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/36577.

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Due to various shortcomings of the visual system, some visual stimuli can only be identified with 100% accuracy if they are shown for a certain amount of time. This time can be measured using the Inspection Time (IT) paradigm. In an IT task, a “pi” figure with differing leg lengths is typically presented briefly (e.g., 20-200 ms) and is then immediately masked to prevent retinal afterimages. Participants are subsequently required to choose which of the two legs was longer. The objective of this task is to determine the shortest amount of time the pi figure needs to be shown for it to be percei

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Drissi, Hind. "Déficits de perception visuo-spatiale élémentaire dans les atteintes neuro-développementales, sensorielles ou motrices." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Lyon 1, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024LYO10332.

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Il a été établi que les troubles de la perception visuo-spatiale étaient fréquents dans la population d’enfants présentant des troubles des apprentissages et que 60% des enfants avec un trouble du neuro-développement ont un déficit de perception visuo-spatiale élémentaire (PVSE). Notre objectif en réalisant ce travail était double. D’une part un objectif de recherche fondamentale : mieux comprendre le rôle que joue la vision dans la cognition spatiale. Et d’autre part, un objectif clinique : mieux comprendre les déficits du développement de la PVSE et leurs conséquences fonctionnelles dans des

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Mahé, Gwendoline. "La reconnaissance visuelle des mots chez le dyslexique : implication des voies ventrale et dorsale." Phd thesis, Université de Strasbourg, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00919475.

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L'objectif de ces travaux a été d'étudier, à partir des potentiels évoqués, l'implication des voies ventrale (qui sous-tend le traitement expert de l'écrit) et dorsale (qui sous-tend des processus phonologiques et attentionnels) lors de la reconnaissance visuelle des mots chez des adultes dyslexiques. Les spécificités des sujets dyslexiques ont été isolées en les comparant à deux groupes contrôles, appariés sur : l'âge (i.e., des lecteurs experts) et sur le niveau de lecture (i.e., des mauvais lecteurs). Les résultats montrent des déficits du traitement expert de l'écrit, phonologiques et de l

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Bernardino, Inês. "Investigation of the dorsal stream hypothesis in Williams syndrome." Doctoral thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/23832.

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Tese de doutoramento em Ciências da Saúde, Ramo de Ciências Biomédicas, apresentada à Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra<br>O Síndrome de Williams (SW) é uma perturbação genética rara do neurodesenvolvimento caracterizada por alterações sensoriais, cognitivas e neuroanatómicas. Esta patologia constitui, por isso, um modelo ímpar para investigar a natureza modular (ou não) dos processos cognitivos, dado que proporciona uma oportunidade rara de estudo das relações entre genes, cérebro e comportamento. O SW tem suscitado interesse no domínio das neurociências cognitivas, devido ao s

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Simic, Nevena. "Investigating the Effects of Early and Current Thyroid Hormone Status on Higher-order Visual Abilities." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/32889.

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Congenital hypothyroidism (CH), a pediatric endocrine condition that results in early thyroid hormone (TH) insufficiency, is associated with visuospatial dysfunction suggestive of selective dorsal visual stream impairment. However, the ventral visual stream has not been adequately investigated in this population and so the effect of early TH insufficiency on development of the two streams had not been clearly established. This thesis used a comprehensive set of neuropsychological and experimental tests to assess higher-order visual functions in children and adolescents with CH compared with t

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"Motion Supports Object Recognition: Insight into possible interactions between the two primary pathways of the human visual system." Master's thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.14467.

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abstract: The present study explores the role of motion in the perception of form from dynamic occlusion, employing color to help isolate the contributions of both visual pathways. Although the cells that respond to color cues in the environment usually feed into the ventral stream, humans can perceive motion based on chromatic cues. The current study was designed to use grey, green, and red stimuli to successively limit the amount of information available to the dorsal stream pathway, while providing roughly equal information to the ventral system. Twenty-one participants identified shapes th

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Ouellette, Brian G. "Aspects spatial et temporel de l'intégration visuelle au niveau de la voie dorsale du système visuel du chat : le cortex suprasylvien latéral comme modèle." Thèse, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/6356.

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Vachon, Patrick. "Réorganisation fonctionnelle et structurale des cortex auditifs, visuels et associatifs chez les sourds profonds congénitaux ou prélinguaux." Thèse, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/4990.

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En raison de l’utilisation d’un mode de communication totalement différent de celui des entendants, le langage des signes, et de l’absence quasi-totale d’afférences en provenance du système auditif, il y a de fortes chances que d’importantes modifications fonctionnelles et structurales s’effectuent dans le cerveau des individus sourds profonds. Les études antérieures suggèrent que cette réorganisation risque d’avoir des répercussions plus importantes sur les structures corticales situées le long de la voie visuelle dorsale qu’à l’intérieur de celles situées à l’intérieur de la voie ventrale.

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Books on the topic "Visual dorsal stream"

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Alston, Louise. Subitization of moving and static stimuli: The role of the dorsal and ventral visual streams. University of Birmingham, 1999.

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Pobil, Angel P. del, and Eris Chinellato. Visual Neuroscience of Robotic Grasping: Achieving Sensorimotor Skills Through Dorsal-Ventral Stream Integration. Springer London, Limited, 2015.

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Pobil, Angel P. del, and Eris Chinellato. The Visual Neuroscience of Robotic Grasping: Achieving Sensorimotor Skills through Dorsal-Ventral Stream Integration. Springer, 2016.

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Pobil, Angel P. del, and Eris Chinellato. The Visual Neuroscience of Robotic Grasping: Achieving Sensorimotor Skills through Dorsal-Ventral Stream Integration. Springer, 2015.

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Mason, Peggy. Seeing the World. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190237493.003.0015.

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Modern life is highly dependent on high-acuity vision, and this chapter emphasizes the mechanisms and pathways that support high-acuity or form vision. Because the most common visual impairment is refractive error, the refractive power of the cornea and lens is described at some length. The processes of emmetropization, accommodation, and far viewing are considered. The participation of the outer retina in phototransduction and the visual cycle are detailed, and relevant diseases, including retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration, are introduced. The neural processes that tra

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Money, Cashflow and Wealth: Dorval, Rocket, Paying Taxes, Budget Savings, Search Results, Anthony Robbins, Getting Rich,TR6 Streams, Visual, Phumelele Ndumo, Quotesgram, Financial Decisions. Independently Published, 2022.

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Book chapters on the topic "Visual dorsal stream"

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Chinellato, Eris, and Angel P. del Pobil. "Neural Coding in the Dorsal Visual Stream." In Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69134-1_23.

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Dozal, León, Gustavo Olague, and Eddie Clemente. "Evolving an Artificial Dorsal Stream on Purpose for Visual Attention." In Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31519-0_24.

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Olague, Gustavo, León Dozal, Eddie Clemente, and Arturo Ocampo. "Optimizing an Artificial Dorsal Stream on Purpose for Visual Attention." In EVOLVE - A Bridge between Probability, Set Oriented Numerics, and Evolutionary Computation III. Springer International Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01460-9_7.

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Fortes, Antonio F., and Hugo Merchant. "Investigating Higher Order Cognitive Functions in the Dorsal (magnocellular) Stream of Visual Processing." In Plasticity in the Visual System. Springer US, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-387-28190-8_13.

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Ferretti, Gabriele. "Neurophysiological States and Perceptual Representations: The Case of Action Properties Detected by the Ventro-Dorsal Visual Stream." In Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology. Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-38983-7_10.

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Wilkins, Arnold J., and Bruce J. W. Evans. "The Magnocellular-Dorsal (M-D) Deficit and Associated Theories." In Vision, Reading Difficulties and Visual Stress. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65568-5_5.

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Wilkins, Arnold J., and Bruce J. W. Evans. "The Magnocellular-Dorsal (M-D) Deficit and Associated Theories." In Vision, Reading Difficulties, and Visual Stress. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-03930-0_5.

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Smirnitskaya, Irina A. "Contribution of the Dorsal and Ventral Visual Streams to the Control of Grasping." In Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30425-6_23.

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Madary, Michael. "The Dorsal Stream and the Visual Horizon." In Visual Phenomenology. The MIT Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262035453.003.0007.

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The seventh chapter shows how the empirical premise can accommodate evidence for the dual visual systems in cognitive neuroscience. The main claim of this chapter is that the crucial difference between the two cortical streams is in their spatiotemporal processing, rather than their functional output: the dorsal stream processes peripheral retinal input with a high temporal resolution, and the ventral stream specializes in foveal input with less temporal resolution.

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"The Dorsal Stream and the Visual Horizon." In Visual Phenomenology. The MIT Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/10796.003.0012.

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Conference papers on the topic "Visual dorsal stream"

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Sarch, Gabriel, Hsiao-Yu Fish Tung, Aria Wang, Jacob Prince, and Michael Tarr. "3D View Prediction Models of the Dorsal Visual Stream." In 2023 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience. Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.32470/ccn.2023.1169-0.

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Liu, Qianhui, Dong Xing, Huajin Tang, De Ma, and Gang Pan. "Event-based Action Recognition Using Motion Information and Spiking Neural Networks." In Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-21}. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2021/240.

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Event-based cameras have attracted increasing attention due to their advantages of biologically inspired paradigm and low power consumption. Since event-based cameras record the visual input as asynchronous discrete events, they are inherently suitable to cooperate with the spiking neural network (SNN). Existing works of SNNs for processing events mainly focus on the task of object recognition. However, events from the event-based camera are triggered by dynamic changes, which makes it an ideal choice to capture actions in the visual scene. Inspired by the dorsal stream in visual cortex, we pr

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Patel, Krishna, Michael Stevens, Suyash Adhikari, Greg Book, Muhammad Mubeen, and Godfrey Pearlson. "Acute cannabis-related alterations in an fMRI time estimation task." In 2022 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Research Society on Marijuana. Research Society on Marijuana, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.26828/cannabis.2022.02.000.26.

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Introduction: Cannabis is widely popular recreational drug of choice in the US. The drug is known to alter the subjective experience of time. However, its effects on time estimation at a brain level are still largely unexplored. Our goal was to investigate acute effects of cannabis on an fMRI time estimation task by evaluating brain activation differences between cannabis and placebo conditions. We hypothesized that participants’ time estimation accuracy and corresponding BOLD response would be altered during the cannabis condition in a dose-related manner, compared to placebo. Methods: In thi

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Zakrevskaya, A. A. "STRESS AND MONOTONY AS FACTORS OF LOCOMOTIVE CREWS’ SHIFT WORK." In The 16th «OCCUPATION and HEALTH» Russian National Congress with International Participation (OHRNC-2021). FSBSI “IRIOH”, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31089/978-5-6042929-2-1-2021-1-217-221.

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Abstract: The article presents the results of a psychophysiological examination of drivers of passenger and export traffic, working in the day and night shifts, respectively. The dynamics of performing psychophysiological tests (changes in the reaction rate, the number of errors, perception of time intervals, etc.) after day and night shifts was revealed, and differences in the subjective perception of the specifics of work in the daytime and at night were also noted. Working the night shift requires the driver to mobilize psychophysiological resources aimed at maintaining active wakefulness a

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Lingelbach, Katharina, Daniel Diers, Michael Bui, and Mathias Vukelić. "Investigating Feature Set Decisions for Mental State Decoding in Virtual Reality based Learning Environments." In 14th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2023). AHFE International, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1003014.

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In modern workplaces with rapidly changing skill requirements, suitable training and learning environments play a key role for companies to remain competitive, effective and ensure job satisfaction. To provide an immersive, interactive, and engaging learning experience, Virtual Reality (VR) has emerged as a revolutionary technology. Especially when erroneous behaviour is associated with severe consequences or great resources, VR offers the opportunity to explore actions and visualize consequences in safely and at affordable costs. In addition, it provides an easy way to personalize educational

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