Feel the rhythm

Feel the beat: using cross-modal rhythm to integrate perception of objects, others, and self

For a robot to be capable of development, it must be able to explore its environment and learn from its experiences. It must find (or create) opportunities to experience the unfamiliar in ways that reveal properties valid beyond the immediate context. In this paper, we develop a novel method for using the rhythm of everyday actions as a basis for identifying the characteristic appearance and so...

The Feel of Java

Kinetochores feel the pull

S uzuki et al. (1) take a close look at how kinetochores change shape when spindle microtubules tug on them. They fi nd that only part of the kinetochore stretches and identify a protein that might confer this ability. Kinetochores, which hook the fi bers of the mitotic spindle to chromosomes, are more than passive fasteners. Fashioned from more than 100 proteins, the structures are dynamic and...

The controllability of cardiac rhythm in elderly

Introduction: Recent reports have shown that rare fluctuations in cardiac cycles are ‘forgotten’ quickly in healthy individuals and it is possible to quantify the “memory length” of a physiological time-series using an inverse statistical approach. Methods: In the present study, we assessed the effect of aging on memory length in cardiac rhythm. Results: There was a long...

FEEL Thesis

If we are to learn the effects of the environment and our day-to-day actions, and choices on our physiology, we must develop systems that will label biophysiological senor data with contextual information. In this thesis I first present an architecture and implementation of FEEL: a system for the acquisition, processing and visualization of biophysiological signals and contextual information. T...