Sensory Integration by Humans and Machines

Author(s):  
David G. Stork ◽  
Marcus E. Hennecke
Keyword(s):  
CounterText ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-306
Author(s):  
Tamara Brzostowska-Tereszkiewicz

Multisensory and cross-modal perception have been recognised as crucial for shaping modernist epistemology, aesthetics, and art. Illustrative examples of how it might be possible to test equivalences (or mutual translatability) between different sensual modalities can be found in theoretical pronouncements on the arts and in artistic production of both the avant-garde and high modernism. While encouraging multisensory, cross-modal, and multimodal artistic experiments, twentieth-century artists set forth a new language of sensory integration. This article addresses the problem of the literary representation of multisensory and cross-modal experience as a particular challenge for translation, which is not only a linguistic and cross-cultural operation but also cross-sensual, involving the gap between different culture-specific perceptual realities. The problem of sensory perception remains a vast underexplored terrain of modernist translation history and theory, and yet it is one with potentially far-reaching ramifications for both a cultural anthropology of translation and modernism's sensory anthropology. The framework of this study is informed by Douglas Robinson's somatics of translation and Clive Scott's perceptive phenomenology of translation, which help to put forth the notion of sensory equivalence as a pragmatic correspondence between the source and target texts, appealing to a range of somato-sensory (audial, visual, haptic, gestural, articulatory kinaesthetic, proprioceptive) modalities of reader response.


2019 ◽  
Vol 70 (8) ◽  
pp. 3003-3007
Author(s):  
Ileana Marinescu ◽  
Puiu Olivian Stovicek ◽  
Dragos Marinescu ◽  
Marius Toma Papacocea ◽  
Mihnea Costin Manea ◽  
...  

Supersensitivity psychosis is a subdiagnosed clinical reality. This entity, however, is insufficiently elucidated from the point of view of the neurobiochemical mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis. The combination of an antipsychotic with a high D2 receptor blocking capacity and a neuroleptic-like substance such as cinnarizine trigger the dopaminergic hypersensitivity mechanisms. This stimulates the sensitivity for dopamine in the prefrontal cortex, ameliorating the negative and cognitive symptoms at the thalamic level, remodeling sensory integration and decreasing tinnitus, as well as in the cerebral tonsil, consequently decreasing the risk of antisocial behavior.


Author(s):  
Meredith Chaput ◽  
James A. Onate ◽  
Janet E. Simon ◽  
Cody R. Criss ◽  
Steve Jamison ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Elżbieta Szczygieł ◽  
Agata Gigoń ◽  
Izabela Cebula Chudyba ◽  
Golec Joanna ◽  
Golec Edward

BACKGROUND: Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is a common structural spine deformity affecting 2%–4% of adolescents. Due to the unknown cause of idiopathic scoliosis, its therapy is a long-term and often unsatisfactory process. In the literature, it is often suggested that problems related to the feeling of one’s own body are caused by AIS. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to assess the feeling of one’s own body among children with and without scoliosis on the example of feeling the head position, pelvis shape and balance. METHOD: The research included 62 children: 30 with scoliosis and 25 without diagnosed scoliosis with an age range between 11 to 19 years. The minimum scoliosis value was 7∘ and the maximum was 53∘. The average value was 25∘. During the study, three functional tests were used: Cervical Joint Position Error Test (CJPET), Clinical Test of Sensory Integration on Balance (CTSIB) and Body proportion demonstration test (BPDT). RESULTS: The results of the tests showed statistically significant differences (CJPET p= 3.54* 10-14, CTSIB p= 0.0376, BPDT p= 0.0127). However, none of the studies showed a correlation between the results of people with scoliosis and the value of their Cobb angles.


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