Objectives: Alzheimer’s disease causes many negative effects on the individualchr('39')s physical, psychological and cognitive conditions. The multi sensory stimulation helps the patients to improve their physical, psychological and cognitive conditions. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of multi sensory stimulation on cognitive status and quality of life of the patients with Alz...

Sensory inputs are remarkably organized along all sensory pathways. While sensory representations are known to undergo plasticity at the higher levels of sensory pathways following peripheral lesions or sensory experience, less is known about the functional plasticity of peripheral inputs induced by learning. We addressed this question in the adult mouse olfactory system by combining odor discr...

Experience-dependent plasticity is the adaptability of brain circuits as a result of changes in neural activity, a phenomenon that has been proposed as the neural basis for important brain function in health and disease. The underlying mechanisms of experience-dependent plasticity can take different forms, depending on the organisms and brain areas under investigation. A better understanding of...

by ethnographic experience of weavings called varni, i want to say somethings about northwest nomads of iran and tehran society. movement of varni by motivation of market cause to rethink about nature of objects and processes of landscape-making anthropologically. exploring biography of cultural elements and forms became fascinating works among anthropologists. social biography of objects like ...

In the area of product design, sensory dominance can be defined as the relative importance of different sensory modalities for product experience. Since product experience is multisensory, it is interesting to know which sensory modality plays a leading role in a particular experience, so that designers could concentrate on the creation of the most relevant product properties. It is often assum...

Experience is conceptualized in both academic and policy circles as a more-or-less direct effect of the design of the built environment. Drawing on an investigation of people’s everyday experiences of designed urban environments in two UK towns, this paper suggests two reasons why urban sensory encounters cannot be understood entirely as a consequence of the design features of those environment...

Jacobs et al. (Reports, 23 March 2007, p. 1723) reported that plasticity in the mammalian visual system permitted the emergence of "a new dimension of sensory experience" in mice genetically engineered to express a human long-wavelength-sensitive cone photopigment. However, neither neural plasticity nor a new dimension of sensory experience is required to explain their results.

Sensory experience and spontaneous activity play important roles in development of sensory circuits; however, their relative contributions are unclear. Here, we test the role of different forms of activity on remodeling of the mouse retinogeniculate synapse. We found that the bulk of maturation occurs without patterned sensory activity over 4 days spanning eye opening. During this early develop...

A method to record human experience related to sensory modalities other than vision and hearing is proposed. Our “record by re-experience” method does not require high-quality on-site sensing systems. The authoring and display systems for sensory media play very important roles in this approach. In this paper, research and development of display technologies for haptics, locomotion, and olfacti...

The development of neural circuits is influenced by sensory experience during restricted critical periods early in life. A novel critical period is demonstrated for plasticity of the whisker map in layer 2/3 of rat primary somatosensory cortex. Sensory experience during this period guides initial formation of whisker receptive fields.