Making Maps by Hand

Decision by division: making cortical maps.

In the past three decades, mounting evidence has revealed that specification of the basic cortical neuronal classes starts at the time of their final mitotic divisions in the embryonic proliferative zones. This early cell determination continues during the migration of the newborn neurons across the widening cerebral wall, and it is in the cortical plate that they attain their final positions a...

Verbal Cues and Hand Maps

Posture modulates implicit hand maps.

Several forms of somatosensation require that afferent signals be informed by stored representations of body size and shape. Recent results have revealed that position sense relies on a highly distorted body representation. Changes of internal hand posture produce plastic alterations of processing in somatosensory cortex. This study therefore investigated how such postural changes affect implic...

RUNNING HEAD: Vision and Implicit Hand Maps The Effects of Immediate Vision on Implicit Hand Maps

Implicit Knowledge in Concept Maps and Their Revealing by Spatial Analysis of Hand-drawn Maps

Concept maps represent a rich structure to store and picture information or knowledge in form of concept-to-concept relations. There are several methods proposed for concept map analysis, based usually on concept and relation comparison, topological analysis of the map and others. One of the traditional applications of concept maps is the evaluation of the student’s knowledge, enabling to ident...