Tactile Devices That Mimics Human's Sensory System

Use of sensory substitution devices as a model system for investigating cross-modal neuroplasticity in humans.

A novel physiological culture system that mimics luteal angiogenesis.

Luteal inadequacy is a major cause of poor embryo development and infertility. Angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels, is an essential process underpinning corpus luteum (CL) development and progesterone production. Thus, understanding the factors that regulate angiogenesis during this critical time is essential for the development of novel strategies to alleviate luteal inadequacy an...

Human Assembly Time Versus Levels of Visual and Tactile Sensory Input: Experimental Results for Five Devices

Results are reported of laboratory experiments where levels of visual and tactile sensory input of human subjects are controlled and time required to assemble several types of devices is measured. There is an inverse relationship between the time ta assemble a device and the amount of sensory input available to the subject. The results indicate that different types of assembly tasks require dif...

Cross-Sensory Facilitation Reveals Neural Interactions between Visual and Tactile Motion in Humans

Many recent studies show that the human brain integrates information across the different senses and that stimuli of one sensory modality can enhance the perception of other modalities. Here we study the processes that mediate cross-modal facilitation and summation between visual and tactile motion. We find that while summation produced a generic, non-specific improvement of thresholds, probabl...

Motor-sensory confluence in tactile perception.

Perception involves motor control of sensory organs. However, the dynamics underlying emergence of perception from motor-sensory interactions are not yet known. Two extreme possibilities are as follows: (1) motor and sensory signals interact within an open-loop scheme in which motor signals determine sensory sampling but are not affected by sensory processing and (2) motor and sensory signals a...