A new pacemaker that can adapt the heart rate in response to the patient's metabolic requirements has been developed. This pacemaker uses the QT interval as the indicator of physiological demand. Experience in five patients showed the rate response to exercise to be smooth and progressive and to return gradually to the basic paced rate after activity stopped. Physiological rate responsive pacin...

A combined lecture and laboratory experience was designed to enhance medical school students' understanding of the physiological basis of diuretic therapy. Studies are performed by students in anesthetized dogs to determine the effects of four clinically useful diuretics on renal function. The objective of the experience is to 1) learn the mechanisms of action, clinical indications, and adverse...

This paper examines the generality of features extracted from heart rate (HR) and skin conductance (SC) signals as predictors of self-reported player affect expressed as pairwise preferences. Artificial neural networks are trained to accurately map physiological features to expressed affect in two dissimilar and independent game surveys. The performance of the obtained affective models which ar...

Clinical hypnosis is a mind-body technique that operates at the intersection of subjective perceptions and objective physiological changes. A fundamental problem with hypnosis research is that the subjective mental state of patients during hypnosis cannot be measured directly. Experimental paradigms that neglect to measure changes in mental state at best yield a correlation between the treatmen...

Human Computer Interfaces are in constant advance. Current research focuses on moving the interaction out of the limited reach of computers into the environment, but the focus is still on performance. The maturity of physiological sensors enables interaction that takes into account the user’s inner state, but users are not really aware of such states. It is possible to take a step further and e...

The research of user experience employs a holistic approach to investigate people’s responses when interacting with information and communication technologies (ICT). This has brought new and fresh ways to improve and optimize the design and use of interactive systems. One of the methods incorporates people’s physiological responses during their interaction with computers and media. Building on ...

background: bilingual individuals reported that they experience more intensive emotions in native language. this study tries to investigate this claim psychophysiologicaly. the effect of age and second language acquisition context on physiological appearances of first and second languages were also investigated.   methods: 60turkish and kurdish bilinguals were explored. the emotional stimuli em...