cognition

This video explains our current research in the VEMI lab to find best possible interface for indoor navigation to be used by blind and sighted users.

Genetic Contribution To Variation In Cognitive Function In Twins As Assessed With Functional MR Imaging. This video shows that the brain activity patterns of MZ twins are more similar then brain activity patterns of siblings.

I describe how I believe the sun is perceived erroneously as "setting" when in fact it does not set. I explain that I think this is due to an erroneous cognitive model inherited from early times. I derived this work from the work of Bucky Fuller.

It is difficult to define perspective within sets that are self belonging. For example in the study of mankind, anthropology, both men and their studies fall into the same category that contains the topic outline. This situation entails a universal quality of uniqueness, an instance of, to the topic of anthropology that almost may be viewed in parallel to the topic of nature as the set of unique particulars. Yet one might assent to the notion in the inclusive study of man, anthropology,...

Gregory Rose from PharmExperts.com interviews J. Buccafusco (Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA) about his development of new anti-Altzheimer drugs, designed to act by multiple mechanisms to improve congnition. Desensitization of nicotinic receptors is one of the novel approaches proposed by Buccafusco. Three of his compounds are currently in advanced preclinical evaluation.

Apparency and actuality are discussed with respect to science, genetics, evolution, cognition and perception. Rules for a (sub)set of actual/allowable sets of entities and objects from a total set that is based on differences and contrasts extracted from perceptual experience of the world elucidate tenable combinations/recombinations from a total of the transparent(history/past dependant) and the apparent as they can be construed to comprise the actual/real faces of perception. The elements...

Though synthesis of Uracil is not possible to accomplish from its' naturally apparent parts it is physically divisible into two symmetrical fragments that are mirror images of one another. A model is presented in animated form that associates a transparent energy divide to this situation as a basic universal parity that enables the existence of the cell as a genetic transmission, relates nucleic acid structure to a transparent energy scale that is based distances along a mobius...

D. Schoepp. - There is a medical need for novel antipsychotic drugs. Currently available drugs modulate dopamine receptors and do not affect cognitive domain of the disease. There also problems with compliance and tolerability of drugs. Schoepp advocates the use of glutamate receptor modulators in the therapy of schizophrenia.

The use of stimulants (methylphenidate and amphetamine) as cognitive enhancers by the general public is increasing and is controversial. It is still unclear how they work or why they improve performance in some individuals but impair it in others. To test the hypothesis that stimulants enhance signal to noise ratio of neuronal activity and thereby reduce cerebral activity by increasing efficiency, we measured the effects of methylphenidate on brain glucose utilization in healthy adults. We...