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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"sensory input"”.
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The Role of Sensory Input for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Physical Education
Addressing sensory needs creates an inclusive environment to help students reach their full potential. 1 in 36 in the United States are estimated to have autism spectrum disorder (ASD). For students with ASD sensory needs might not look the same as their peer with ASD. Individuals with autism may …
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Effects of altered sensory input from the neck on cerebellar function, body schema and sensorimotor integration
… density of muscle spindle afferents and their input is critical for formulating the perception of head position relative to the body. Chronic alterations in afferent input from the neck may be studied in individuals with subclinical neck pain (SCNP), defined as non-severe recurrent neck pain …
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The role of auditory sensory input during functional pre- and postsynaptic maturation of the calyx of Held synapse
We studied how afferent nerve activity affects the in-vivo maturation of a fast glutamatergic CNS synapse, the calyx of Held. To address this question we exploited the distinct presynaptic Ca2+ channel subtypes governing transmitter release at the cochlear inner hair cell (IHC)-spinal neuron …
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Intrinsic constraints on cross-modal plasticity
… level of a single synapse to the repatterning of sensory input. One paradigm that demonstrates this plasticity is the re-routing of sensory input to inappropriate targets. This cross-modal plasticity in an animal model is reminiscent of similar rearrangements in deaf and blind human patients. In …
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The Use of Sensory Integrative Tool in a Third Grade Classroom and How it Affects Student Posture
<p>Sensory integration is the organization of sensory input for use. Sensory input are streams of neural impulses flowing from the sense receptors in the body to the spinal cord and brain. Sensory integrative tools were designed to help stimulate certain sensory systems that tend to organize the …
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Neural Dynamics in the Developing Piriform Cortex of Awake Rats
… information. Recent work on the visual and somatosensory systems has shown that cortex learns to process information during the pre-critical period, mostly in the absence of sensory input. For example, before maturation of the retina, spontaneous retinal waves trigger 10 Hz spindle oscillations in …
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On the LAM: A Naturalized Model of Petites Perceptions
… a model of perception by which unconscious sensory input can become conscious in a way that is entirely mechanical and \'non-spooky\'. Based on the model of perception found G.W. Leibniz philosophy, primarily the New Essays on Human Understanding, the Leibnizian Aggregate Model (LAM) of …
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The role of cortical layer six in the perception and laminar representation of sensory change
Neocortex learns predictive models of sensory input, allowing mammals to anticipate future events. A fundamental component of this process is the comparison between expected and actual sensory input, and the layered architecture of neocortex is presumably central to this computation. In this …
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Feedforward and Feedback Signals in the Olfactory System
… presented in this thesis was to study effects of sensory stimulus on the olfactory system of rats, focusing on the olfactory bulb (OB) and the anterior piriform cortex (aPC). Extracellular electrophysiological measurements revealed distinct frequency bands of oscillations in OB and aPC. However, …
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Learning invariant representations of actions and faces
… other people and their actions from visual input is a crucial aspect of human perception that allows individuals to respond to social cues. Humans effortlessly identify familiar faces and are able to make fine distinctions between others' behaviors, despite transformations, like changes in …
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Center Manifold Dynamics in Randomly Coupled Oscillators and in Cochlea
… behavior and to flexibly adapt to wide-ranging sensory input parameters. In this thesis, I will present two lines of research exploring nonhyperbolicity in neural dynamics.</p>
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Don't hide the madness perception, bipolar and the film form
Human perception is a process that begins with sensory input that is organized and then interpreted. During this process there is a movement of information about an event in the real world, into information that represents that event in the mind. This movement of information in the form of …
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A Scent of Direction: Exploring Adaptive Olfactory Navigation in Drosophila
… as a reflexive behavior driven by immediate sensory cues, whether flies can leverage more sophisticated strategies, integrating sensory input with spatial memory and internal representations of their surroundings, remains unclear. A key challenge in studying olfactory navigation lies in the …
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MECHANISMS OF GAZE STABILITY DURING WALKING: BEHAVIORAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASURES RELATING GAZE STABILITY TO OSCILLOPSIA
Visual sensory input plays a significant role in maintaining upright posture during walking. Visual input contributes to control of head, trunk, and leg motion during walking to facilitate interaction with and avoidance of objects and individuals in the environment. The vestibular system …
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Perceptual organization and its influence upon attention
… not through brute strength or enhanced sensory receptors, but through our ability to understand the world around us. In order to make sense of the world around us we need to organize the information that our sensory systems receive. One of the most fundamental steps in this …
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The Educational Implications of Cocaine-Exposed Hearing-Impaired Children
… is the inability to process more than one sensory input at a time. An informal procedure was designed to assess this effect on learning. The results indicated that D.A. exhibits some of the commonly-reported characteristics. The presence of multiple stimuli had no significant effect on her …
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Enhancing Child Self-Confidence Of Occupational Performance Through The Use Of A Movement Program
… a result of a child's difficulties processing sensory input in combination with motor incoordination. This can lead to many difficulties for children's occupational performance, which in turn, can lead to a decrease in self-confidence for those children. This mixed-method study, through pre and …
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An application of Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM)
… paper begins by reviewing the discovery of the sensory input and chemical makeup of the signals in the brain, and then introduces mathematical abstraction to form a software program node.
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Octopaminergic Regulation of Olfactory Discrimination in the Drosophila Larval Mushroom Body Calyx
… brains are essential for memory formation. The sensory input region of the mushroom bodies, the calyx, processes information received from stereotypic olfactory input channels, the Projection Neurons (PNs). Mushroom body neurons, Kenyon cells (KCs), integrate these inputs through a combinatorial …
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Characterization of an Inhibitory Pathway to Feeding Command Neurons in the Brain of Pleurobranchaea Californica and an Analysis of the Changes in This Pathway That Occur as a Result of Food-Avoidance Conditioning
… are a site of convergent information, receiving input from other Int-2s, Int-1s, mono-synaptic sensory input from the periphery, and ascending input from the buccal ganglion. The Int-2s are a gate for the feeding behavior. Stimulated activity in a single Int-2 can entirely suppress the rhythmic …
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