Listing 1 - 2 of 2 |
Sort by
|
Choose an application
Habituation describes the progressive decrease of the amplitude or frequency of a motor response to repeated sensory stimulation that is not caused by sensory receptor adaptation or motor fatigue. Habituation can occur in different time scales: habituation within a testing session has been termed short-term habituation, whereas habituation across testing sessions has been termed long-term habituation. Generally, the more spaced the stimuli for inducing habituation are presented (i.e. the slower habituation is induced), the longer it seems to take to recover the behavioural response to its initial magnitude. Habituation is opposed by behavioural sensitization, which is thought to be an independent mechanism that leads to an increased behavioural response, especially if the sensory stimulus is annoying or aversive. Habituation provides an important mechanism for filtering sensory information, as it allows filtering out irrelevant stimuli and thereby focussing on important stimuli, a prerequisite for many cognitive tasks. The importance is demonstrated in mental disorders that are associated with disruptions in habituation, e.g. schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorders. The inability to filter out irrelevant information in patients with these disorders strongly correlates with disruptions in higher cognitive functions, such as in different types of memory and attention. Habituation is also considered to be the most basic form of non-associative implicit learning, and it can be observed throughout the animal kingdom. Based on the importance of habituation for cognitive function and therefore for the survival of an animal, it is assumed that habituation mechanisms are highly conserved across species. On the other hand, there is emerging evidence for a multitude of homo- and heterosynaptic mechanisms underlying habituation, depending on the modality of sensory stimulation, the level of sensory information processing where habituation occurs, and the temporal composition of sensory stimulation. Eric Kandel used the sea hare Aplysia in order to study habituation mechanisms of the gill withdrawal reflex; however, the molecular mechanisms remain largely elusive to date. A multitude of different organisms, behaviours, and experimental approaches have been used since in order to study habituation, but still surprisingly little is known about the underlying mechanisms. New insights also come from an unexpected side: in the recent past, groups that have been studying molecular mechanisms underlying short- and long-term synaptic plasticity phenomenons in different parts of the rodent brain are starting to link these plasticity processes to behavioural habituation. The scope of this Frontier Research Topic is to give an overview over the concept of habituation, different animal and behavioural models used for studying habituation mechanisms, as well as the different synaptic and molecular processes suggested to play a role in behavioural habituation through Original Research Articles, Methods, Hypothesis & Theory Articles, and Reviews.
Learning and memory. --- Habituation. --- Sensorimotor gating --- startle --- learning and memory --- habituation --- spike adaptation --- synaptic mechanism --- animal model
Choose an application
Non-invasive biomedical sensors for monitoring physiological parameters from the human body for potential future therapies and healthcare solutions. Today, a critical factor in providing a cost-effective healthcare system is improving patients' quality of life and mobility, which can be achieved by developing non-invasive sensor systems, which can then be deployed in point of care, used at home or integrated into wearable devices for long-term data collection. Another factor that plays an integral part in a cost-effective healthcare system is the signal processing of the data recorded with non-invasive biomedical sensors. In this book, we aimed to attract researchers who are interested in the application of signal processing methods to different biomedical signals, such as an electroencephalogram (EEG), electromyogram (EMG), functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), electrocardiogram (ECG), galvanic skin response, pulse oximetry, photoplethysmogram (PPG), etc. We encouraged new signal processing methods or the use of existing signal processing methods for its novel application in physiological signals to help healthcare providers make better decisions.
movement intention --- brain–computer interface --- movement-related cortical potential --- neurorehabilitation --- phonocardiogram --- machine learning --- empirical mode decomposition --- feature extraction --- mel-frequency cepstral coefficients --- support vector machines --- computer aided diagnosis --- congenital heart disease --- statistical analysis --- convolutional neural network (CNN) --- long short-term memory (LSTM) --- emotion recognition --- EEG --- ECG --- GSR --- deep neural network --- physiological signals --- electroencephalography --- Brain-Computer Interface --- multiscale principal component analysis --- successive decomposition index --- motor imagery --- mental imagery --- classification --- hybrid brain-computer interface (BCI) --- home automation --- electroencephalogram (EEG) --- steady-state visually evoked potential (SSVEP) --- eye blink --- short-time Fourier transform (STFT) --- convolution neural network (CNN) --- human machine interface (HMI) --- rehabilitation --- wheelchair --- quadriplegia --- Raspberry Pi --- image gradient --- AMR voice --- Open-CV --- image processing --- acoustic --- startle --- reaction --- response --- reflex --- blink --- mobile --- sound --- stroke --- EMG --- brain-computer interface --- myoelectric control --- pattern recognition --- functional near-infrared spectroscopy --- z-score method --- channel selection --- region of interest --- channel of interest --- respiratory rate (RR) --- Electrocardiogram (ECG) --- ECG derived respiration (EDR) --- auscultation sites --- pulse plethysmograph --- biomedical signal processing --- feature selection and reduction --- discrete wavelet transform --- hypertension
Listing 1 - 2 of 2 |
Sort by
|