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Fractionating auditory priors: A neural dissociation between active and passive experience of musical sounds
2019
Learning, attention and action play a crucial role in determining how stimulus predictions are formed, stored, and updated. Years-long experience with the specific repertoires of sounds of one or more musical styles is what characterizes professional musicians. Here we contrasted active experience with sounds, namely long-lasting motor practice, theoretical study and engaged listening to the acoustic features characterizing a musical style of choice in professional musicians with mainly passive experience of sounds in laypersons. We hypothesized that long-term active experience of sounds would influence the neural predictions of the stylistic features in professional musicians in a distinct…
Improvement of motor performance by observational training in elderly people.
2010
Action observation influences action execution; this strong coupling is underlined by an overlap of cortical areas activated during observation and execution of action, and is dependent of specific motor experience. The goal of the present study was to verify if action observation can be used for rehabilitation of elderly people. We tested this question with a protocol of observational practice of 2 frequently used movements: walking and sit-to-stand/back-to-sit. Both tasks were performed at normal and maximal speed before and after training, by 8 elderly subjects. Observational practice led to an increase in walking velocity via an increase in step frequency, but without modification of st…
How Can We Identify the Best Implantation Site for an ECG Event Recorder?
2000
ZELLERHOFF, C., et al.: How Can We Identify the Best Implantation Site for an ECG Event Recorder? The aim of this study was to show how to find the preferable implantation site for an ECG event recorder (ECG-ER). We compared the quality of bipolar ECG recordings (4-cm electrode distance, vertical position) in 65 patients at the following sites: left and right subclavicular, left and right anterior axillary line (4th-5th interspace), left and right of the sternum (4th-5th interspace), heart apex, and subxyphoidal. The results were compared to the standard ECG lead II. In 30 patients, an additional comparison between vertical and horizontal ECG registrations was done using the same sites. ECG…
Action expertise reduces brain activity for audiovisual matching actions: An fMRI study with expert drummers
2011
When we observe someone perform a familiar action, we can usually predict what kind of sound that action will produce. Musical actions are over-experienced by musicians and not by non-musicians, and thus offer a unique way to examine how action expertise affects brain processes when the predictability of the produced sound is manipulated. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to scan 11 drummers and 11 age- and gender-matched novices who made judgments on point-light drumming movements presented with sound. In Experiment 1, sound was synchronized or desynchronized with drumming strikes, while in Experiment 2 sound was always synchronized, but the natural covariation between sound in…
Machine consciousness: A manifesto for robotics
2009
Machine consciousness is not only a technological challenge, but a new way to approach scientific and theoretical issues which have not yet received a satisfactory solution from AI and robotics. We outline the foundations and the objectives of machine consciousness from the standpoint of building a conscious robot. © 2009 World Scientific Publishing Company.
Norman Graphics: A Multimedia Manifesto
2020
The apses of the Cathedral of Monreale (XII century) are characterised by extraordinarily rich decorations, to enhance the most sacred part of the sanctuary where the altar is located. The paper describes some circular inlays of the central apse of the Cathedral of Monreale through a geometric analysis communicated via a multimedia language. The geometric motifs can be arranged in a graphic composition according to an imaginative process that collects all the scientific analysis procedure described above such as a sort of Manifesto of the Norman architectural culture geometry in Sicily and in southern Italy. The Manifesto is an audio-visual product, consisting of vector drawings’ animations…
Weakly supervised alignment of multisensor images
2015
Manifold alignment has become very popular in recent literature. Aligning data distributions prior to product generation is an appealing strategy, since it allows to provide data spaces that are more similar to each other, regardless of the subsequent use of the transformed data. We propose a methodology that finds a common representation among data spaces from different sensors using geographic image correspondences, or semantic ties. To cope with the strong deformations between the data spaces considered, we propose to add nonlineari-ties by expanding the input space with Gaussian Radial Basis Function (RBF) features with respect to the centroids of a partitioning of the data. Such featur…
Au38Q MBTR-K3
2020
Purpose The purpose of Au38Q MBTR-K3 is to test the scalability of a machine learning regression model when the number of observations and the number of features change. Background The Au38Q MBTR-K3 was created from a trajectory file regarding the density functional theory simulation of Au38Q hybrid nanoparticle performed by Juarez-Mosqueda et al. in their paper Ab initio molecular dynamics studies of Au38(SR)24 isomers under heating using the MBTR descriptor by Himanen et al. as presented in paper DScribe: Library of descriptors for machine learning in materials science. The MBTR was used with the default parameters for K=3 (angles between atoms) presented at the website of Dscribe version…
Au38Q MBTR-K3
2020
Purpose The purpose of Au38Q MBTR-K3 is to test the scalability of a machine learning regression model when the number of observations and the number of features change. Background The Au38Q MBTR-K3 was created from a trajectory file regarding the density functional theory simulation of Au38Q hybrid nanoparticle performed by Juarez-Mosqueda et al. in their paper Ab initio molecular dynamics studies of Au38(SR)24 isomers under heating using the MBTR descriptor by Himanen et al. as presented in paper DScribe: Library of descriptors for machine learning in materials science. The MBTR was used with the default parameters for K=3 (angles between atoms) presented at the website of Dscribe vers…
Girls’ portrayals in fast fashion advertisements
2022
This study analyses the visual construction of girls and notionssurrounding young femininities articulated by 15 contemporaryadvertisements of Nordic fast fashion companies, available on theirpublic Facebook pages in Finland. A visual discourse analysis identifiessome blatantly stereotypical and a few complex visual constructions ofgirls as heterosexual, caring, innocent, sexy posers, active self-presentersand self-surveyors, carefree and environmental activists. Theimplications of our findings, particularly in shaping societal notionssurrounding girls, are discussed. The study contributes primarily to theresearch field of visual commercial representation of girls by unpackinghow their comp…