While working on the research and design phase of a naturalistic Asian rainforest exhibit for the California Science Center’s World of Ecology exhibit, we had the unique opportunity to research and develop innovative habitat components intended to showcase naturalistic behaviors. In many cases, the cost of designing and constructing truly naturalistic enrichment devices may not be worthwhile, p...

En el presente artículo se analizan retrospectivamente los tratamientos realizados mediante TMS sobre LDLPF a 20 Hz con una intensidad del 70% en un protocolo de 10 sesiones sobre 107 pacientes (41 varones y 66 mujeres) por presentar sintomatología depresiva resistente al tratamiento farmacológico en distintas patologías. Los pacientes habían realizado previamente dos intentos psicofarmacológic...

In recent years, there are many naturalistic driving projects have been conducted, such as the 100-Car Project (Naturalistic Driving study in United State), EuroFOT(European Large-Scale Field Operational Tests on Vehicle Systems), SeMi- FOT(Sweden Michigan Naturalistic Field Operational Test and etc. However, those valuable naturalistic driving data hasn't been applied into Human-machine Intera...

BACKGROUND "Michael's game" is a card game which aims at familiarizing healthcare professionals and patients with cognitive behavioral therapy of psychotic symptoms. This naturalistic study tests the feasibility and the impact of the intervention in various naturalistic settings. METHOD Fifty five patients were recruited in seven centers. They were assessed in pre and post-test with the Peter...

the writers of this article present a thematical study of children’s poetry in the seventies(1990s). to do this, they have first studied a collection of children’s poetry in the seventies and then they have classified the themes of this kind of poetry into six different categories including: naturalistic, entertaining and joyful, socio-political, religious, didactic and ethical themes. the writ...

We have previously demonstrated that exposure of adult rat to a type of enriched environment, known as 'naturalistic habitat' (NH), induces extensive functional plasticity in the whiskers' representations within the primary somatosensory cortex. Here we have investigated the molecular basis for such functional plasticity involved in this model. Based on the role of BDNF on synaptic plasticity a...

To help guide design and development of embodied conversational agents, this study reviews the evolving qualities of naturalistic agents by identifying and tracking their most relevant features. The study extends prior taxonomies of characteristics of ECAs, developing a rubric that distinguishes agents’ visual and functional characteristics. The study applies the rubric to 15 agents representin...

In this précis I summarise the main ideas of my book Philosophy Psychedelics. The discusses philosophical issues arising from therapeutic use “classic” (serotonergic) psychedelic drugs such as psilocybin and LSD. is organised around what call Comforting Delusion Objection to therapy: concern that novel promising treatment relies essentially on induction non-naturalistic metaphysical beliefs, re...