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Nature focuses on computation and systems...
Via Action Potential The December issue of Nature Neuroscience includes a special focus on computational and systems neuroscience highlighting research presented at the Cosyne meeting held this past March in Salt Lake City. Here is the list of contributions included in the... Read more ...
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Virtual Reality and Motor Disorders Symposium
“Virtual Reality and Motor Disorders” Symposium April 27th, 2006, Laval (France) Laval Virtual is historically the biggest convention for Virtual Reality (VR) in Europe. With its industrial exhibition and its live demonstrations, it offers the possibility to discover and to test a wide... Read more ...
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Understanding emotions in others: mirror neuron...
Mirella Dapretto, Mari S Davies, Jennifer H Pfeifer, Ashley A Scott, Marian Sigman, Susan Y Bookheimer, Marco Iacoboni Nature , Published online: 4 December 2005 To examine mirror neuron abnormalities in autism, high-functioning children with autism and matched controls underwe... Read more ...
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Robo-patients Allow Medical Students To...
via Science Daily Robotic, simulated patients are allowing students in the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine to practise clinical skills before they reach human patients. A simulator lab training centre set up by the anesthesia department allows students to experience the challenges of... Read more ...
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Simulating the size of the entire human brain
Via Neurodudes From Eugene Izhikevich’s website On October 27, 2005 I finished simulation of a model that has the size of the human brain. The model has 100,000,000,000 neurons (hundred billion or 10^11) and almost 1,000,000,000,000,000 (one quadrillion or 10^15) synapses. It repres... Read more ...
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Anticipation of Public Speaking in Virtual...
Biol Psychiatry . 2005 Nov 30; Authors: Cornwell BR, Johnson L, Berardi L, Grillon C Startle reflex modification has become valuable to the study of fear and anxiety, but few studies have explored startle reactivity in socially threatening situations. METHODS: Healthy participants ranging ... Read more ...
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Tangibility in Gameplay
Via Networked performance Ana Paiva, Rui Prada, Ricardo Chaves, Marco Vala, Adrian Bullock, Gerd Andersson, and Kristina Hook, ICMI’03 , November 5–7, 2003, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In this paper, we describe a way of controlling the emotional states of a synthetic character... Read more ...
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Uncanny valley
From Wikipedia The Uncanny Valley is a principle of robotics concerning the emotional response of humans to robots and other non-human entities. It was theorized by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori in 1970 . The principle states that as a robot is made more humanlike in its... Read more ...
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HCI 2006: Engage!
Via Usability news 11-15 September 2006 Queen Mary, University of London The 20th British HCI Group conference in co-operation with ACM. From the conference's website: For the first time, the HCI conference is engaging with six core themes. These themes capture some... Read more ...
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Misuse and Abuse of Interactive Technologies
Via Usability News "Misuse and Abuse of Interactive Technologies" CHI 2006 Workshop Date: Saturday, April 22 (Full day) Venue: Montreal, Canada, http://www.chi2006.org/ Submission Deadline: January 10 From the event's web site: So far research into the user's emo... Read more ...