Compensatory Plasticity in the Deaf Brain: Effects on Perception of Music

10.32920/14638263.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Arla Good ◽

Maureen J. Reed ◽

Frank A. Russo

Keyword(s):

Sensory Experience ◽

Missing Information ◽

Auditory Deprivation ◽

Unique Experience ◽

Compensatory Plasticity

When one sense is unavailable, sensory responsibilities shift and processing of the remaining modalities becomes enhanced to compensate for missing information. This shift, referred to as compensatory plasticity, results in a unique sensory experience for individuals who are deaf, including the manner in which music is perceived. This paper evaluates the neural, behavioural and cognitive evidence for compensatory plasticity following auditory deprivation and considers how this manifests in a unique experience of music that emphasizes visual and vibrotactile modalities.

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Investigating The Impact of Sensory Experience on Budget Hotel Rooms to Maximize Guests Satisfaction

Journal of Business on Hospitality and Tourism ◽

10.22334/jbhost.v7i1.284 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 171

Author(s):

Reiza Miftah Wirakusuma ◽

Anak Agung Anom Samudra ◽

Ni Kadek Sumartini

Keyword(s):

Hospitality Industry ◽

Descriptive Analysis ◽

Sensory Experience ◽

West Java ◽

The Past ◽

Qualitative Descriptive ◽

Unique Experience ◽

Guest Satisfaction ◽

Five Senses ◽

The Impact

This study aims to investigate the sensory experience from guests who have stayed at a budget hotel in Bandung, West Java Province. Although only offers low prices, simple facilities, and less spacious room, yet a budget hotel has been able to maximize comfort and satisfaction for their guests. Subsequently, the number of budget hotels increase significantly in the past few decades and create different themes for hospitality industry. These themes create unique experience and they are felt by five senses of guests during their visits. The experience is divided into visual, tactile, gustatory, auditory, and olfactory. The method used in this research is a qualitative descriptive analysis from 145 questionnaires which were collected on the field. The results showed that the sensory experience had a dominant impact on guest satisfaction in staying at a budget hotel, especially in tactile and visual.

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Culture and the plasticity of perception

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19002887 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

Author(s):

Michael Lifshitz ◽

T. M. Luhrmann

Keyword(s):

Cultural Context ◽

Sensory Experience ◽

Cultural Learning ◽

The World

Abstract Culture shapes our basic sensory experience of the world. This is particularly striking in the study of religion and psychosis, where we and others have shown that cultural context determines both the structure and content of hallucination-like events. The cultural shaping of hallucinations may provide a rich case-study for linking cultural learning with emerging prediction-based models of perception.

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On the Use of POCS for Restoring the “Missing Wedge” in Electron Tomography

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s042482010018135x ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 48 (1) ◽

pp. 520-521

Author(s):

Neng-Yu Zhang ◽

Bruce F. McEwen ◽

Joachim Frank

Keyword(s):

Function Space ◽

Convex Sets ◽

Electron Tomography ◽

Spinal Ganglion ◽

Fourier Space ◽

Missing Information ◽

Voltage Electron ◽

High Voltage Electron Microscope ◽

Energy Bound ◽

Spatial Boundedness

Reconstructions of asymmetric objects computed by electron tomography are distorted due to the absence of information, usually in an angular range from 60 to 90°, which produces a “missing wedge” in Fourier space. These distortions often interfere with the interpretation of results and thus limit biological ultrastructural information which can be obtained. We have attempted to use the Method of Projections Onto Convex Sets (POCS) for restoring the missing information. In POCS, use is made of the fact that known constraints such as positivity, spatial boundedness or an upper energy bound define convex sets in function space. Enforcement of such constraints takes place by iterating a sequence of function-space projections, starting from the original reconstruction, onto the convex sets, until a function in the intersection of all sets is found. First applications of this technique in the field of electron microscopy have been promising.To test POCS on experimental data, we have artificially reduced the range of an existing projection set of a selectively stained Golgi apparatus from ±60° to ±50°, and computed the reconstruction from the reduced set (51 projections). The specimen was prepared from a bull frog spinal ganglion as described by Lindsey and Ellisman and imaged in the high-voltage electron microscope.

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