OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that visual memory for faces can be dissociated from visual memory for topographical material. METHOD A patient who developed a global amnesic syndrome after acute carbon monoxide poisoning is described. A neuroradiological examination documented severe bilateral atrophy of the hippocampi. RESULTS Despite a severe anterograde memory disorder involving verbal...

Touching is a powerful means for eliciting sexual arousal. Here, we establish the topographical organization of bodily regions triggering sexual arousal in humans. A total of 704 participants were shown images of same and opposite sex bodies and asked to color the bodily regions whose touching they or members of the opposite sex would experience as sexually arousing while masturbating or having...

Due to their interactivity and to the sense of presence they afford, virtual environments constitute an interesting opportunity to study spatial cognition. In accordance with this perspective, we aimed to introduce a spatial test in virtual simulation in order to investigate the survey spatial ability in patients with topographical disorientation. To do this, we used the "planning in advance ta...

The ventrolateral nuclear group of the dorsal thalamus in the monkey consists of the large cell mass lying between the external and internal medullary laminae rostral to the pulvinar. Fibers from these nuclei terminate on a sector occupying the middle portion of the dorsolateral cerebral cortex. Previous investigators using, in most instances, the method of retrograde degeneration, have determi...

Operations with flexible, compliant manipulators over large workspaces relative to the manipulator are complicated by sensor noise, vibration, and measurement bias. These difficulties are compounded by unstructured environments, such as those encountered in humanitarian demining. By taking advantage of the static structure of the terrain and the manipulator’s fundamental mechanical characterist...

A teacher must consider many details when planning and organizing a course. This paper shows how the new Topic Map computer technology can help in this process. The developed Topic Map for the CS knowledge domain is used for the analysis of introductory CS courses, but it can be also applied to other courses, including in noncomputer disciplines. Well-structured Topic Maps may become a solid ba...