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Hand-eye coordination refers to the harmonization between visual information and hand movements. In this coordination, the information perceived by the eyes is used to guide the movements of the hands. In many games, hand-eye coordination is important ...

The ability to control the grip force plays a crucial role in daily life. We introduce an approach to augment this ability far beyond the conventional technology using stochastic resonance (SR) phenomenon. The participants had to control their grip ...

Modern immersive virtual reality (IVR) often uses embodied controllers for interacting with virtual objects. However, it is not clear how we should conceptualise these interactions. They could be considered either gestures, as there is no interaction ...

This study is to investigate the therapeutic effect of acupuncture treatment (ACT) on PSD through resting state functional connectivity analysis. The participants include seven PSD patients who have completed ACT trial and seven PSD patients who have ...

Geometrical thinking is a life-long skill, yet, despite its importance, geometry teaching and learning is fraught with difficulties. Traditional pen and pencil approaches have failed to address them. In this vein, a conceptual instructional design (ID), ...

Sensorimotor control plays a critical role in human motions, from involuntary reflex actions to voluntary skill learning. In fact, sensorimotor control contributes almost all kinds of human motions and it allows humans to adapt their motions to self-...

The use of robotic devices for repetitive exercising of patients with upper limb sensor motor impairment has become accepted as effective in rehabilitation therapy. Two forms of rehabilitation robotic devices for upper limb are so far available which ...

Rhythmic sound provides timing information that can be used to improve precision in exercise. Rhythmic performance of an exercise that consists of a movement cycle of goal-directed movements can enhance the efficiency of exercise on a cardio-fitness ...

We are interested in a bio-inspired representation of space that can be used for the design of autonomous systems and assistive devices. Experiments with subjects navigating in physically impossible environments indicate that the basic human ...

Agency alters the subjective sense of time and sensitivity to sensory stimulus. We quantified the effect of agency in the processing of audiovisual integration in the brain by psychophysical methods. In the experiment, either the subjects or the ...

This article focuses on recent modeling studies of dopamine neuron activity and their influence on behavior. Activity of midbrain dopamine neurons is phasically increased by stimuli that increase the animal's reward expectation and is decreased below ...

This dissertation presents a set of methods by which a learning agent, called a "critter," can learn a sequence of increasingly abstract and powerful interfaces to control a robot whose sensorimotor apparatus and environment are initially unknown. The ...