scholarly journals Synchronization of Autonomic and Cerebral Rhythms During Listening to Music: Effects of Tempo and Cognition of Songs

2019 ◽  
pp. 1005-1019
Author(s):  
M.J. Mollakazemi ◽  
D. Biswal ◽  
S.C. Elayi ◽  
S. Thyagarajan ◽  
J. Evans ◽  
...  

A large number of studies document cardiorespiratory changes occurring while listening to music. Less is known, however, about the interaction between cardiorespiratory and cerebral electrical rhythms during listening to music and how cognition and acoustic structural aspects of songs influence that interaction. We focused on tempo as a structural feature of songs, since tempo is a major determinant of physiological responses to music, and on familiarity and randomization of phase of local spectra of known and unknown songs for cognition. Our results indicated an overall increase in the degree of synchronization among cardiorespiratory variables (Heart rate (RR), systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP, DBP), respiration) and between cardiorespiratory and cerebral (EEG) oscillations during all songs. We also observed a marked decrease in respiratory frequency bandwidth and increase in respiratory rate while listening to songs, and slow song produced the most periodic breathing. Compared with slow tempo, during fast song, DBP and cerebral oscillations became less synchronized with high frequency components of RR suggesting that the processes causing the previously known reduction in vagal activity with increase in tempo also may have caused the decrease in these synchronizations. Cognition of songs affected the SBP coherencies the most. DBP was synchronized with respiration more than all other measured variables in response to auditory stimuli. Results indicate an overall increase in the degree of synchronization among a variety of cerebral electrical and autonomically driven cardiovascular rhythms. It is possible that this significant increase in synchronizations underlies the widely reported pleasurable and palliative effects of listening to music.

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Cunha Filho ◽  
Leonardo Teixeira Da Silva ◽  
Nathalia Souto Muniz Da Cruz ◽  
Andrea Damasceno ◽  
Tatiana Soares De Oliveira ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTThe identification of clay-rich layers is crucial for development of pre-salt reservoirs. They represent flow barriers and compromise the return of investment of the project if the thickness is misvalued. This issue becomes more relevant for thin clay-rich layers. The solution for the characterization of thin beds is classic: increase of the frequency bandwidth in seismic data. Here, we present a new methodology to derive high-frequency impedance volume. The approach starts with the recovery of low and high-frequency components in seismic data by the application of interactive deconvolution (iterdec). The extended bandwidth data is employed as an input amplitude data to the sparse-spike inversion. The outcome is a high-frequency acoustic impedance volume, which improves the interpretation of thin clay-rich layers. We present a study case of a presalt reservoir to demonstrate that this technique mitigated the location risk of an injection well and helped to maximize the oil swept of its vicinity. Furthermore, we discuss the required adaptations in the sparse-spike inversion workflow, and present the advantages of this approach when compared with conventional inversion results.Keywords: Inversion, resolution, broadband, pre-salt. RESUMOA identificação de camadas argilosas é crucial para o desenvolvimento de reservatórios do pre-sal. Elas atuam como barreira para o fluxo dos fluidos, comprometendo o retorno do investimento no projeto, caso sua espessura seja subavaliada. Esta questão se torna mais relevante no caso the camadas argilosas de pequena espessura. A solução para a caracterização de camadas finas é clássica: torna-se necessário aumentar a banda espectral do dado sísmico. O presente trabalho apresenta a metodologia e os primeiros resultados da incorporação de uma nova metodologia para geração de volumes de impedância de alta resolução. Nesta abordagem, os componentes de baixa e alta frequência do dado sísmico são recuperados através da aplicação de um processo de deconvolução iterativa (iterdec). Em seguida, este dado com banda espectral expandida é utilizado como entrada para uma inversão esparsa, resultando num volume de impedância acústica, que reduz as incertezas na interpretação de camadas argilosas de pouca espessura. Apresenta-se o estudo de caso de um reservatório do pre-sal para demonstrar a efetividade desta técnica na mitigação de risco associado ao posicionamento de um poço injetor, resultando na maximização da varredura de óleo em torno do poço. São apresentadas e discutidas as adaptações necessárias ao fluxo tradicional de inversão e condicionamento de dados sísmicos, bem como as vantagens da aplicação dessa metodologia sobre os resultados da inversão.Palavras-chave: Inversão, resolução, banda-larga, pre-sal.


Author(s):  
G. Y. Fan ◽  
J. M. Cowley

It is well known that the structure information on the specimen is not always faithfully transferred through the electron microscope. Firstly, the spatial frequency spectrum is modulated by the transfer function (TF) at the focal plane. Secondly, the spectrum suffers high frequency cut-off by the aperture (or effectively damping terms such as chromatic aberration). While these do not have essential effect on imaging crystal periodicity as long as the low order Bragg spots are inside the aperture, although the contrast may be reversed, they may change the appearance of images of amorphous materials completely. Because the spectrum of amorphous materials is continuous, modulation of it emphasizes some components while weakening others. Especially the cut-off of high frequency components, which contribute to amorphous image just as strongly as low frequency components can have a fundamental effect. This can be illustrated through computer simulation. Imaging of a whitenoise object with an electron microscope without TF limitation gives Fig. 1a, which is obtained by Fourier transformation of a constant amplitude combined with random phases generated by computer.


2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 658-666
Author(s):  
Kai-jian Xia ◽  
Jian-qiang Wang ◽  
Jian Cai

Background: Lung cancer is one of the common malignant tumors. The successful diagnosis of lung cancer depends on the accuracy of the image obtained from medical imaging modalities. Objective: The fusion of CT and PET is combining the complimentary and redundant information both images and can increase the ease of perception. Since the existing fusion method sare not perfect enough, and the fusion effect remains to be improved, the paper proposes a novel method called adaptive PET/CT fusion for lung cancer in Piella framework. Methods: This algorithm firstly adopted the DTCWT to decompose the PET and CT images into different components, respectively. In accordance with the characteristics of low-frequency and high-frequency components and the features of PET and CT image, 5 membership functions are used as a combination method so as to determine the fusion weight for low-frequency components. In order to fuse different high-frequency components, we select the energy difference of decomposition coefficients as the match measure, and the local energy as the activity measure; in addition, the decision factor is also determined for the high-frequency components. Results: The proposed method is compared with some of the pixel-level spatial domain image fusion algorithms. The experimental results show that our proposed algorithm is feasible and effective. Conclusion: Our proposed algorithm can better retain and protrude the lesions edge information and the texture information of lesions in the image fusion.


Author(s):  
Priya R. Kamath ◽  
Kedarnath Senapati ◽  
P. Jidesh

Speckles are inherent to SAR. They hide and undermine several relevant information contained in the SAR images. In this paper, a despeckling algorithm using the shrinkage of two-dimensional discrete orthonormal S-transform (2D-DOST) coefficients in the transform domain along with shock filter is proposed. Also, an attempt has been made as a post-processing step to preserve the edges and other details while removing the speckle. The proposed strategy involves decomposing the SAR image into low and high-frequency components and processing them separately. A shock filter is used to smooth out the small variations in low-frequency components, and the high-frequency components are treated with a shrinkage of 2D-DOST coefficients. The edges, for enhancement, are detected using a ratio-based edge detection algorithm. The proposed method is tested, verified, and compared with some well-known models on C-band and X-band SAR images. A detailed experimental analysis is illustrated.


2021 ◽  
pp. 35-44
Author(s):  
Ю.Г. Матвиенко ◽  
И.Е. Васильев ◽  
Д.В. Чернов ◽  
В.И. Иванов ◽  
С.В. Елизаров

The accuracy of the location of acoustic emission (AE) sources in the concentrator zones (central holes 5 mm in diameter) located at a distance of 40 mm from the receiving transducers during tensile tests of steel, aluminum alloy and composite flat specimens with dimensions of 550x50x4 mm was evaluated. Calculated speed dependence of propagation of pulses on the level of their amplitude and the partial energy of the high-frequency components of the spectrum is studied. With the threshold method of signal registration, the error in the location of AE event sources arising in the near zone of the receiving transducers at a distance 𝛥L<0.1 m can significantly exceed 10% relative to the base size (B) of the location area, when B<0.5 m. Moreover, with a decrease in the distance 𝛥L<0.05 m, the level of possible error will increase, reaching 20-30% relative to the basic size of the antenna array, when recording pulses with an amplitude level um<60 dB and a fraction of the energy of high-frequency spectrum components not exceeding 10%.


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