society for psychophysiological research (spr)

Fifty - Sixth Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research

Review on psychophysiological methods in game research

This paper reviews the psychophysiological method in game research. The use of psychophysiological measurements provides an objective, continuous, real-time, non-invasive, precise, and sensitive way to assess the game experience, but for best results it requires carefully controlled experiments, large participant samples and specialized equipment. We briefly explain the theory behind the method...

The importance of the concept of vigilance for psychophysiological research.

The variety of meanings nowadays attached to the notion of "vigilance" essentially conceals H. Head's object in view when introducing the term more than half a century ago. It may be supposed that a major reason for the existing confusion is that Head failed to distinguish explicitly between "vigilance" as a force, i.e., a reorganizing power ("vital activity") on the one hand and as a system's ...

Special Issue for 11th International Conference of Iranian Operations Research Society

This is a special issue of the Iranian Journal of Operations Research that includes some of the invited talks presented at the 11th international conference of the Iranian Operations Research Society (IORS), organized jointly by IORS and Razi University of Kermanshah and held at the Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran, May 2-4, 2018. The IORS conference is held annually and is the main event ...

Society for Research in Child Development

©1997 Society for Research in Child Development. All rights reserved. This Social Policy Report synthesizes several streams of research bearing on the problem of poverty in the United States today. Four themes are developed: (1) American society is characterized by rising income inequality; (2) our schools provide an arena for reproducing, resisting, and reconstructing an inequitable economic a...

American society for bone and mineral research.

Combination therapy with daily teriparatide (Forteo, Eli Lilly) and a once-yearly 5-mg zoledronic acid injection (Reclast, Novartis) provided the most rapid increases in BMD at both spine and hip and may be considered for patients at a high risk of fracture, according to new study results. Bisphosphonates suppress bone remodeling, and para thyroid hormone (PTH) and teriparatide stimulate bone f...