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J Neurosci ; 32(40): 14022-32, 2012 Oct 03.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23035109

RESUMO

Perception involves motor control of sensory organs. However, the dynamics underlying emergence of perception from motor-sensory interactions are not yet known. Two extreme possibilities are as follows: (1) motor and sensory signals interact within an open-loop scheme in which motor signals determine sensory sampling but are not affected by sensory processing and (2) motor and sensory signals are affected by each other within a closed-loop scheme. We studied the scheme of motor-sensory interactions in humans using a novel object localization task that enabled monitoring the relevant overt motor and sensory variables. We found that motor variables were dynamically controlled within each perceptual trial, such that they gradually converged to steady values. Training on this task resulted in improvement in perceptual acuity, which was achieved solely by changes in motor variables, without any change in the acuity of sensory readout. The within-trial dynamics is captured by a hierarchical closed-loop model in which lower loops actively maintain constant sensory coding, and higher loops maintain constant sensory update flow. These findings demonstrate interchangeability of motor and sensory variables in perception, motor convergence during perception, and a consistent hierarchical closed-loop perceptual model.


Assuntos
Percepção de Distância/fisiologia , Dedos/fisiologia , Movimento/fisiologia , Desempenho Psicomotor/fisiologia , Percepção do Tato/fisiologia , Adolescente , Adulto , Teorema de Bayes , Sinais (Psicologia) , Retroalimentação Psicológica , Feminino , Mãos/fisiologia , Humanos , Julgamento , Curva de Aprendizado , Masculino , Modelos Neurológicos , Modelos Psicológicos , Transdutores de Pressão , Adulto Jovem
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Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci ; 366(1581): 3070-6, 2011 Nov 12.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21969688

RESUMO

In order to identify basic aspects in the process of tactile perception, we trained rats and humans in similar object localization tasks and compared the strategies used by the two species. We found that rats integrated temporally related sensory inputs ('temporal inputs') from early whisk cycles with spatially related inputs ('spatial inputs') to align their whiskers with the objects; their perceptual reports appeared to be based primarily on this spatial alignment. In a similar manner, human subjects also integrated temporal and spatial inputs, but relied mainly on temporal inputs for object localization. These results suggest that during tactile object localization, an iterative motor-sensory process gradually converges on a stable percept of object location in both species.


Assuntos
Propriocepção/fisiologia , Sensação/fisiologia , Vibrissas/fisiologia , Animais , Comportamento Animal/fisiologia , Comportamento Exploratório/fisiologia , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Ratos , Percepção Espacial/fisiologia , Estatísticas não Paramétricas , Gravação em Vídeo
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J Phys Chem B ; 109(22): 11180-5, 2005 Jun 09.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16852364

RESUMO

He and Ne in contact with molecular sieves in the form of crystalline A zeolites and amorphous carbon molecular sieves fibers (CMSF) were studied by adsorption measurements. Classification of the effective enclosure of zeolitic apertures and of graphitic constrictions, as determined by recent temperature-programmed desorption mass spectrometry (TPD-MS) studies of adsorption of He and Ne onto these materials, was utilized in making a prudent choice of samples and experimental conditions. In view of the former TPD information, the behaviors of adsorption and volumetric measurements reported herein are straightforwardly interpreted. The combined TPD, adsorption isotherms, and dead volume data deepen the understanding of the physicochemical nature of adsorbed gas, where gas adsorption in the vicinity of pore constrictions and/or apertures as well as on the inner surface areas of pores and/or cages could be resolved. Previous conclusions that the huge activation energies measured for Ne/CMSF at high temperatures are unlikely to characterize chemical desorption but reflect those required for overcoming the barrier of effectively constricted apertures were confirmed by the volumetric data presented here. At 77 K, considerable He adsorption was observed in the porous solids and found to be responsible for abnormal deduced values of dead volumes. The occurrence of significant adsorption of He onto A zeolites and CMSF at 77 K warrants the realization that in cases concerning porous materials, volumetrically deduced quantities should not be taken for granted, but should be carefully considered and uniquely interpreted in relation to the specific experimental conditions under which they are taken.

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J Phys Chem B ; 109(44): 21197-201, 2005 Nov 10.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16853746

RESUMO

Temperature-programmed desorption mass spectrometry (TPD-MS) measurements on [(18)O]water-enriched copper sulfate pentahydrate (CuSO(4).5H(2)(18)O) reveal an unambiguous occurrence of efficient oxygen isotope exchange between the water of crystallization and the sulfate in its CuSO(4) solid phase. To the best of our knowledge, the occurrence of such an exchange was never observed in a solid phase. The exchange process was observed during the stepwise dehydration (50-300 degrees C) of the compound. Specifically, the exchange promptly occurs somewhere between 160 and 250 degrees C; however, the exact temperature could not be resolved conclusively. It is shown that only the fifth, sulfate-associated, anionic H(2)O molecule participates in the exchange process and that the exchange seems to occur in a preferable fashion with, at the most, one oxygen atom in SO(4). Such an exchange, occurring below 250 degrees C, questions the common conviction of unfeasible oxygen exchange under geothermic conditions. This new oxygen exchange phenomenon is not exclusive to copper sulfate but is unambiguously observed also in other sulfate- and nitrate-containing minerals.

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