Recently Sekuler et al. [1] investigated the motion-bounce illusion and found that sound can influence ambiguous visual motion perception. Here we investigated the motionbounce illusion in the tactile-auditory and the tactile-visual domain. Using a vibro-tactile belt consisting of 7 vibrators we generated tactile apparent motion stimuli by sequentially activating neighboring motors with an onse...

The goal of this study was to develop a hybrid mental speller that can effectively prevent unexpected typing errors in the steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP)-based mental speller by simultaneously using the information of eye-gaze direction detected by a low-cost webcam without calibration. In the implemented hybrid mental speller, a character corresponding to the strongest SSVEP resp...

BACKGROUND/AIM Every day, a substantial proportion of the general population experiences the distressing and frightening signs of an upcoming psychiatric illness. The consequences can be enormous because severe psychiatric disorders typically cause the loss of the ability to work and often mean a long-term burden for both the patients and their families. Even though most developed countries hav...

Heterotopic noxious counter-stimulation (HNCS) is commonly used to study endogenous pain control systems. The resulting pain inhibition is primarily based on spinal cord-brainstem loops. Recently, functional imaging studies have shown that limbic structures like the anterior cingulate cortex and amygdala are also implicated. Since these structures are involved in learning processes, it is possi...

The purpose of this project is to alleviate the stress associated with an alarm clock by giving it features that make the experience of waking up in the morning more enjoyable. The alarm clock will be able to connect to an existing wireless network on which the user runs a personal computer that stores a personal music collection. The user can configure the alarm clock to connect to this collec...

Audio guidance is a common means of helping visually impaired individuals to navigate, thereby increasing their independence. However, the differences between different modalities for locating objects in 3D space have yet be investigated. The aim this study was compare time, hand’s path length, and satisfaction levels using three automatic cueing modalities: pitch sonification, verbal, vibratio...

PRESENTATION M.P. is a 73-year-old woman who has had type 1 diabetes since 1964. She suffered severe diabetic retinopathy, resulting in bilateral enucleation of the eyes with placement of ocular prostheses. The patient’s husband has traditionally checked her blood glucose levels and administered some of her insulin injections. However, her husband is often away from home during the day, and M.P...

Electrophysiology in primates has implicated long-range neural coherence as a potential mechanism for enhancing sensory detection. To test whether local synchronization and long-range neural coherence support detection performance in rats, we recorded local field potentials (LFPs) in frontal and parietal cortex while rats performed an auditory detection task. We observed significantly elevated ...