Abnormal tactile experience early in life disrupts active touch

Abnormal tactile experience early in life disrupts active touch.

The importance of early tactile experience in the development of discriminative somatomotor function was assessed by examining the proficiency and movement strategies of rats raised without normal sensory inputs provided by their mystacial vibrissae. Infant-trimmed animals had their whiskers clipped daily from birth to 45 d of age, after which they were allowed to regrow for 60-70 d before init...

The Application of Tactile Experience in Urban Perception

Urban perception is the result of mutual transaction between human and environment and the process of perception is developed through the three continuous steps of “sensation”, “perception” and “cognition”. In the first step (sensorial perception), the environmental signals are received via sensorial sensors and each different sense based on its own essence, performance and ability has its own ...

TACTILE TOUCH IN INTENSIVE CARE Nurses’ preparation, patients’ experiences and the effect on stress parameters TACTILE TOUCH IN INTENSIVE CARE

Early abnormal visual experience induces strabismus in infant monkeys.

We measured ocular alignment in the horizontal direction for 17 monkeys reared under deprivation paradigms that involved monocular defocus, monocular occlusion and optically corrected aphakia coupled with continuous or partial occlusion of the fellow eye. Alignment was measured at 3 and 7 months with a photographic corneal light reflex method. Results showed that a majority of the monkeys in ea...

Tactile guides for touch screen controls

Complex scientific and electronic measurement instruments often require precise adjustments which are typically accomplished with physical controls such as buttons, knobs, sliders and switches (for example see Figure 1). Users of modern test equipment are accustomed to these physical controls, which by learning and adaptation are perceived as natural and intuitive. More importantly, physical co...