Checklists have been shown to improve care and reduce morbidity and mortality in the healthcare setting.[1] Their application in safety-critical industries outside of medicine continues to offer a strong argument for their application to medicine.[2] The daily in-patient medical ward round is a complex process and includes multiple potential risks to patient safety. This project aims to evaluat...

We demonstrate the technological value of non-monotonic logics by an example: We use prioritized defaults for candidate generation in diagnosis from first principles. We implement this non-monotonic logic by TMS similar to default logic. Prioritized defaults allow an easy formu­ lation of a diagnosis problem including state­ ments such as 'eletrical parts are more reliable than mechanical ones'...

Coiling The use of checklists is well-established in aviation, where their application is an integral part of every sequence of flying. In cases of emergency flying procedures, the use of checklists is fundamental in dealing with critical tasks, and their application is a central part of pilot training and pilot performance. Checklists have only recently been introduced in medicine in an effort...

Evidence from human and primate studies suggests that fast visual processing may utilize signals projecting from primary visual cortex (V1) through the dorsal stream, to area V5/MT+ or beyond and subsequently back into V1. This coincides with the arrival of parvocellular signals en route to the ventral pathway and infero-temporal cortex. Such evidence suggests that the dorsal stream region V5/M...

The paper starts with a succinct description of the ways the semantics of fuzzy interval logics is derived by means of Bandler and Kohout’s Checklist paradigm from basic ab initio epistemic assumptions. This is followed by a brief survey of the previous work of application of the Checklist paradigm to this topic as well as the characterisation of the interval fuzzy logics by group transformatio...

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has established the functional relevance of early visual cortex (EVC) for visual awareness with great temporal specificity non-invasively in conscious human volunteers. Many studies have found a suppressive effect when TMS was applied over EVC 80-100 ms after the onset of the visual stimulus (post-stimulus TMS time window). Yet, few studies found task per...

Human attention may be guided by representations held in working memory (WM) and also by priming from implicit memory. Neurophysiological data suggest that WM and priming may be associated with distinct neural mechanisms, but this prior evidence is only correlative. Furthermore, the role of the visual cortex in attention biases from memory remains unclear, because most previous studies conflate...