Multisensory integration is a key factor in establishing bodily self-consciousness and in adapting humans to novel environments. The rubber hand illusion paradigm, in which humans can immediately perceive illusory ownership to an artificial hand, is a traditional technique for investigating multisensory integration and the feeling of illusory ownership. However, the long-term learning propertie...

The current study tested the ability of whines and child-directed speech to attract the attention of listeners involved in a story repetition task. Twenty non-parents and 17 parents were presented with two dull stories, each playing to a separate ear, and asked to repeat one of the stories verbatim. The story that participants were instructed to ignore was interrupted occasionally with the read...

Two closely-related electro-dermal phenomena constitute the so-called " psycho-galvanic reflex ". These are (a) a decrease in the electrical resistance of the skin, and (b) a change in the skin electromotive force in response to a wide variety of stimuli. Fere (1888) connected two electrodes on the forearm of a subject in series with a weak source of electricity and a galvanometer. He observed ...

The skin impedance is well various and changeable rapidly, so it is not easy to measure precisely the all frequency characteristics(l). In order to measure the all frequency characteristics, there are two methods as follows. One is multi-frequency points measuring method and the other is the fast fourier transformation (FFT) method from the response in time domain. However, the former demands v...

Central feedback of peripheral states of arousal influences motivational behavior and decision making. The sympathetic skin conductance response (SCR) is one index of autonomic arousal. The precise functional neuroanatomy underlying generation and representation of SCR during motivational behavior is undetermined, although it is impaired by discrete brain lesions to ventromedial prefrontal cort...

The application of galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS) evokes distinct responses in lower limb muscles involved in the control of balance. The purpose of this study was to investigate the balance and lower limb muscle responses to short-duration GVS and to determine whether these responses are modulated by small changes in center of gravity (CoG) and baseline muscle activity occurring during ...

background: biting habit of mosquitoes plays an important role in the epidemiology of mosquito-borne diseases. mosquitoes use a set of elaborate sensory modalities to find their preferred hosts by exploiting cues emanating from a nearby host. it has been suggested that the chemical profile of skin can provide further support for anthropophilic mosquito species to find their suitable hosts. this...

Abstract Individuals who are unable to walk independently spend most of the day in a wheelchair. This population is at high risk for developing pressure injuries caused by sitting. However, early diagnosis and prevention these still remain challenging. Herein, we introduce battery-free, wireless, multimodal sensors movable system continuous measurement pressure, temperature, hydration skin inte...

The present study analyzed the predictive power of lateralized cortico-electrical patterns (measured by EEG) and arousal (measured by Galvanic Skin Conductance) on performance during a visuo-spatial, motor-response task. The task was a videogame specifically designed to induce flow based on the criteria for flow state established by Csikszentmihalyi (1999). Specifically, alpha activity (8-12Hz)...