Humans and most animals are able to navigate in their environment, which generates sensorial information of various kinds, such as proprioceptive cues and optic flow. Previous research focusing on the visual effects of walking (bob, sway, and lunge head motion) has shown that the perception of forward self-motion experienced by static observers can be modulated by adding simulated viewpoint osc...

Stressful experiences seem to negatively influence pain perception through as yet unknown mechanisms. As the noradrenergic locus coeruleus (LC) nucleus coordinates many components of the stress response, as well as nociceptive transmission, we evaluated whether the sensory and affective dimension of chronic neuropathic pain worsens in situations of stress due to adaptive changes of LC neurons. ...

OBJECTIVE This study analyzes the role of a number of cognitive-affective dimensions in the experience and coping of pain in patients with fibromyalgia (FM). Specifically, it was examined whether anxiety, depression, pain catastrophizing and pain-related anxiety predict the pain perception and the self-efficacy expectations in these patients. METHOD Seventy-four fibromyalgia patients were ask...

OBJECTIVE Individuals with schizophrenia show severe deficits in their ability to decode emotions based upon vocal inflection (affective prosody). This study examined neural substrates of prosodic dysfunction in schizophrenia with voxelwise analysis of diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). METHOD Affective prosodic performance was assessed in 19 patients with schizophrenia and 19...

Chili shrimp paste (CSP) is a favorite condiment in Southeast Asia. Microbial spoilage makes CSP unsuitable for consumption within several days. Thermal treatment was applied to produce microbiologically safe CSP. The effect of heating process on physicochemical and sensorial properties of CSP was studied. Heating at the optimum condition (21.6 min, 80 ̊C) has been shown effective and reliable ...

This study lies in the context of virtual engineering and human information systems. We propose to model and implement the behaviour of believable virtual agents, using ideas from psychology (cognitive maps, affordances) and neurophysiology (active perception, movement prediction). Virtual worlds are peopled with autonomous entities improvising in free interaction. Autonomization of a model con...

In this paper we present the architecture for a robotic system using a humanoid robot, based on the Lego Mindstorms NXT, which tries to simulate the human rhythmic perception from audio signals, and its reactive behavior in the form of dance. To do so we implemented lowlevel aspects of rhythm perception based on Marsyas, an open source software framework for audio processing. The model’s output...

In this paper a control scheme is proposed for anticipatory and discrete event sensory motor driven. The control system elaborates a sensorymotor program based on its internal data and a high level objective. The global system implements several biological models in each one of its subsystems. One of the novelties of this work is the structure of the sensory-motor algorithms which are based on ...

The introduction presents the main countries producing duck meat and the different species and rearing systems used in production. The review is then divided into two parts. The first part concerns meat quality. The evolution of duck meat post-mortem is described. The effects of high muscle development on technological and sensorial quality are also presented. Finally, the influences of the mai...

The establishment of validated methodologies for the determination of food shelf-life is currently demanded by both food industries and Health Authorities at national and international scale. It is well known that most foods are perishable, since they are subjected to modifications in their structure, composition and properties during storage before consumption. These changes are of physico-che...