UNLABELLED The Glatzel Mirror (GM) is used to evaluate nasal patency. Validation studies are not available in the literature. This paper aims to verify the GM test reproducibility and the correlation between the intra-subject condensation area and nasal patency subjective perception. METHODS This is a prospective study. 25 subjects were evaluated with the GM for five consecutive minutes, ever...

A new class of visuomotor neuron has been recently discovered in the monkey's premotor cortex: mirror neurons. These neurons respond both when a particular action is performed by the recorded monkey and when the same action, performed by another individual, is observed. Mirror neurons appear to form a cortical system matching observation and execution of goal-related motor actions. Experimental...

Mirror neurons and canonical neurons are two classes of visuomotor neurons that are activated by different visual stimuli (Rizzolatti and Kalaska, 2012). Mirror neurons respond to a biological effector interacting with an object (Gallese et al., 1996), suggesting their role in action recognition, while canonical neurons respond to the presentation of a graspable object (Murata et al., 1997), an...

In the Omega EP laser, the pulse must be stretched in time, amplified, and subsequently compressed in a grating compressor in order to obtain high peak power. A model was used to characterize the temporally resolved near-field and far-field beam distributions for several different compressor configurations that included grating alignment errors and grating surface figure errors. The spatio-temp...

We compute the Coifman-Meyer-Wickerhauser measure μ for certain families of quadrature mirror filters (QMFs), and we establish that for a subclass of QMFs, μ contains a fractal scale.

We compute the Coifman-Meyer-Wickerhauser measure μ for certain families of quadrature mirror filters (QMFs), and we establish that for a subclass of QMFs, μ contains a fractal scale.

This paper discusses the relevance of the discovery of mirror neurons in monkeys and of the mirror neuron system in humans to a neuroscientific account of primates' social cognition and its evolution. It is proposed that mirror neurons and the functional mechanism they underpin, embodied simulation, can ground within a unitary neurophysiological explanatory framework important aspects of human ...

The discovery of mirror neurons (e.g., Gallese et al., 1996) has reignited interest in theories that postulate a tight functional link between perception and action. According to these theories, perception and action share a common representational code, with actions coded in terms of the distal perceptual effects that they produce (Prinz, 1997). Accordingly, action representations should be ac...