In the rubber-hand illusion (RHI), people attribute an artificial object to their own body. In the present study, we investigate the extent to which RHI is affected by visual discrepancies between the artificial object and a human hand. We tested Armel and Ramachandran's (2003) hypothesis that people will experience a stronger RHI when the artificial object is a skin-like textured sheet instead...

On the 16th day after delivery (i.e. on the 11th April) she felt pains in lier jaw^in masticating food, in deglutition, and also in the abdomen; the lochial discharge had ceased since 3rd or 4th April. On the 12th, I found the patient in a most pitiable state : body b>jnt like a bow (opisthotonos) and getting spasms every now and then. On enquiry I learned that the patient had been much exposed...

in this article economic loss means those losses occurring independently of physical damage to things or to a person's body or health. there are two main positions about reparability of these losses: in some countries like french, belgium, spain, italy and luxembourg as a principle rule economic loss is recoverable and there is no difference between economic loss and other losses. but in s...

Every major milestone in the history of science, technology and interaction design has stemmed from collision human nature (Katona, 2021). From original paper tape punching, it evolved to keyboard input, now touch operation, voice control, recognition, advanced gesture motion capture, eye recognition technologies, so on. In future, brain-computer interfaces mind will also be implemented. Each t...

The provision of maternal-infant body contact during a period of maternal separation was examined for its effects on parent-infant and triadic interactions. Participants were 146 three-month-old preterm infants and their parents, half of whom received skin-to-skin contact, or kangaroo care (KC), in the neonatal nursery. Global relational style and micro-patterns of proximity and touch were code...

Touch and the related sense of proprioception are the most ubiquitous, yet the least understood, of the senses. In vertebrates, the sensory terminals of touch receptors and proprioreceptors are far from the cell bodies, dispersed throughout the body and embedded in other tissues, impeding the electrophysiological recording of mechanoreceptor potentials and biochemical purification of components...

Neuroactive peptides are packaged as proproteins into dense core vesicles or secretory granules, where they are cleaved at dibasic residues by copackaged proprotein convertases. We show here that the Caenorhabditis elegans egl-3 gene encodes a protein that is 57% identical to mouse proprotein convertase type 2 (PC2), and we provide evidence that this convertase regulates mechanosensory response...

Like faces, human bodies are recognized via the configuration of their parts; their recognition is impaired by inversion. Processing of configural relations has been shown to depend on perceptual expertise with certain classes of objects. Because people see their own body and others' bodies frequently, humans are experts in the visual processing of human body postures. In addition, the observer...

The fat-finger problem has emerged to a routine problem when interacting with especially small touch devices. Thereby, the target is smaller than the size of the finger contact area and interactions may result in incorrect input. Developers tried to respond to this and created new interfaces and tools. In this paper, I would like to present four approaches to address the problem. The stylus is ...