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How maths can help you make a decision
Mathematics provides models that describe what happens in our brains when we make decisions about what to do.
Neural correlates of multisensory enhancement in audiovisual narrative speech perception: A fMRI investigation
This fMRI study investigated the effect of seeing articulatory movements of a speaker while listening to a naturalistic narrative …
Attentional influences on neural processing of biological motion in typically developing children and those on the autism spectrum
Biological motion imparts rich information related to the movement, actions, intentions and affective state of others, which can …
The refractive error and vision impairment estimation with spectacle data study
Purpose: To investigate whether spectacle lens sales data can be used to estimate the population distribution of refractive error among …
Big Data Analysis of Vision Screening Standards Used to Evaluate Fitness to Drive
Purpose Visual acuity (VA) assessment is the most commonly performed vision screening method for drivers. The standards and repeat …
Neuromatch Academy: a 3-week, online summer school in computational neuroscience
Neuromatch Academy (https://academy.neuromatch.io; (van Viegen et al., 2021)) was designed as an online summer school to cover the …
The Circle of Life- The Mathematics of Predator-Prey Relationships
Some animals hunt other animals to feed themselves; these animals are called predators. Animals who are hunted and eaten are known as …
Macular Pigment Response to Lutein, Zeaxanthin, and Meso-zeaxanthin Supplementation in Open-Angle Glaucoma: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Purpose To evaluate macular pigment response to carotenoid supplementation in glaucomatous eyes.
Design Double-masked, randomized, …
Application of big-data for epidemiological studies of refractive error
Purpose:
To examine whether data sourced from electronic medical records (EMR) and a large industrial spectacle lens manufacturing …
Macular Pigment Optical Density Fluctuation as a Function of Pupillary Mydriasis: Methodological Considerations for Dual-Wavelength Autofluorescence
Purpose of the study: Macular pigment (MP), comprising the dietary carotenoids lutein, zeaxanthin and meso-zeaxanthin, is believed to …
Smartphone use as a possible risk factor for myopia
Clinical relevance
This study demonstrates an association between myopia and smartphone data usage. Youths now spend more time …
Neurophysiological correlates of dual tasking in people with Parkinson's disease and freezing of gait.
Freezing of gait in people with Parkinson’s disease (PwP) is associated with executive dysfunction and motor preparation …
Do Smartphones Hurt Our Eyes by Causing Shortsightedness?
Shortsightedness is caused by the eye growing too long, which results in faraway objects, such as the board in school, appearing …
Investigation of Surrogate Biomarkers Associated with Macular Pigment Status in a Group of Older Irish Adults
SIGNIFICANCE Macular pigment (MP) confers potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects at the macula; however, its optical density …
Slowed luminance reaction times in cervical dystonia: disordered superior colliculus processing
Background
Abnormal temporal discrimination in cervical dystonia is hypothesized to be attributable to disrupted processing in the …
FEELING OURSELVES MOVE: A TEAM EFFORT BY OUR SENSES
As you walk, bike, or drive down the street, your brain puts together (integrates) sensory information from different sources. It uses …
Association of total zinc intake with myopia in US children and adolescents
SIGNIFICANCE: This present study advances our knowledge on the role of lifestyle factors in myopia (short-sightedness), specifically …
Lutein and zeaxanthin: The possible contribution, mechanisms of action and implications of modern dietary intake for cognitive development in children.
Background: Studies suggest that lutein and zeaxanthin may be important for cognitive development in children, but a comprehensive …
Current source density approaches improve spatial resolution in event related potential analysis in people with Parkinson's disease.
A letter discussing the use of Current Source Density to analyse EEG data for people with Parkinson’s Disease
Myopia Outcome Study of Atropine in Children (MOSAIC): an investigator-led, double-masked, placebo-controlled, randomised clinical trial protocol
Background: The Myopia Outcome Study of Atropine in Children (MOSAIC) aims to explore the efficacy, safety, acceptability and …
Identification of Surrogate Biomarkers for the Prediction of Patients at Risk of Low Macular Pigment in Type 2 Diabetes
Purpose; This cross-sectional study compared macular pigment (MP) levels among persons with Type 2 diabetes relative to healthy …
Cognitive load reduces the effects of optic flow on gait and electrocortical dynamics during treadmill walking
During navigation of complex environments, the brain must continuously adapt to both external demands, such as fluctuating sensory …
Visual–Vestibular Integration During Self-Motion Perception in Younger and Older Adults
Younger adults integrate visual and vestibular cues to self-motion in a manner consistent with optimal integration; however, little is …
Parental attitudes to myopia: a key agent of change for myopia control?
PURPOSE:With the increasing prevalence in myopia there is growing interest in active myopia prevention. This study aims to increase our …
Disrupted superior collicular activity may reveal cervical dystonia disease pathomechanisms
Cervical dystonia is a common neurological movement disorder characterised by muscle contractions causing abnormal movements and …
Barriers to glaucoma case finding as perceived by optometrists in Ireland
Background: This research was designed to provide an in-depth exploration of the per- ceptions of optometrists relating to the …
Measurement & analysis of the temporal discrimination threshold applied to cervical dystonia
The temporal discrimination threshold (TDT) is the shortest time interval at which an observer can discriminate two sequential stimuli …
Long-term test-retest reliability of event-related potential (ERP) recordings during treadmill walking using the mobile brain/body imaging (MoBI) approach
Advancements in acquisition technology and signal-processing techniques have spurred numerous recent investi- gations on the …
Motor Preparation Rather Than Decision-Making Differentiates Parkinson's Disease Patients With And Without Freezing of Gait
Objective: Freezing of gait (FOG) is a brief, episodic phenomenon affecting over half of people with Parkinson’s disease (PD) and leads …
Menstrual cycle and the temporal discrimination threshold
The temporal discrimination threshold (TDT) is a proposed pre-clinical biomarker (endophenotype) for adult onset isolated focal …
Epidemiological, clinical and genetic aspects of adult onset isolated focal dystonia in Ireland
Background Adult onset primary torsion dystonia (AOPTD) is a poorly penetrant autosomal dominant disorder; most gene carriers are …
A comparison of stimulus presentation methods in temporal discrimination testing
The temporal discrimination threshold (TDT) is the shortest time interval at which an individual detects two stimuli to be asynchronous …
An Examination of the Neural Unreliability Thesis of Autism
An emerging neuropathological theory of Autism, referred to here as the neural unreliability thesis, proposes greater varability in …
Application of virtual reality head mounted display for investigation of movement: a novel effect of orientation of attention
Objective. To date human kinematics research has relied on video processing, motion capture and magnetic search coil data acquisition …
Exploring the unknown: electrophysiological and behavioural measures of visuospatial learning
Visuospatial memory describes our ability to temporarily store and manipulate visual and spatial information and is employed for a wide …
The neural dynamics of somatosensory processing and adaptation across childhood: a high-density electrical mapping study
Young children are often hyperreactive to somatosensory inputs hardly noticed by adults, as exemplified by irritation to seams or …
Sun exposure is an environmental factor for the development of blepharospasm
Background Adult-onset isolated focal dystonia may present with various phenotypes including blepharospasm and cervical dystonia. …
Atypical visual and somatosensory adaptation in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders
Neurophysiological investigations in patients with schizophrenia consistently show early sensory processing deficits in the visual …
Spatio-temporal dynamics of adaptation in the human visual system; a high-density electrical mapping study
When sensory inputs are presented serially, response amplitudes to stimulus repetitions generally decrease as a function of …
Age related sexual dimorphism in temporal discrimination and in adult onset dystonia suggests GABAergic mechanisms
Background: Adult-onset isolated focal dystonia (AOIFD) presenting in early adult life is more frequent in men, whereas in middle age …
Audiovisual Processing is Abnormal in Parkinson’s Disease and Correlates with Freezing of Gait and Disease Duration
Background; Sensory and perceptual disturbances are prominent in Parkinson’s PD and probably contribute to motor deficits such as …
The aging brain shows less flexible reallocation of cognitive resources during dual-task walking: a mobile brain/body imaging (MoBI) study
Aging is associated with reduced abilities to selectively allocate attention across multiple domains. This may be particularly …
Keeping in touch with the visual system: spatial alignment and multisensory integration of visual-somatosensory inputs
Correlated sensory inputs coursing along the individual sensory processing hierarchies arrive at multisensory convergence zones in …
The impact of dual tasking on cognitive performance in a Parkinson's disease cohort with and without freezing of gait: An EEG and behavioral based approach
Freezing of gait (FOG) is a common disabling gait disorder in late stage Parkinson’s disease (PD), which can lead to falls and …
Non-parametric bootstrapping method for measuring the temporal discrimination threshold for movement disorders
Objective. Recent studies have proposed that the temporal discrimination threshold (TDT), the shortest detectable time period between …
Neuro-Oscillatory Phase Alignment Drives Speeded Multisensory Response Times: An Electro-Corticographic Investigation
Even simple tasks rely on information exchange between functionally distinct and often relatively distant neuronal ensembles. …
An evaluation of the role of environmental factors in the disease penetrance of cervical dystonia
Background Adult onset primary torsion dystonia (AOPTD) is a poorly penetrant autosomal dominant disorder; most gene carriers are …
Sexual dimorphism in temporal discrimination
The temporal discrimination threshold (TDT) is the shortest time interval at which two sensory stimuli presented sequentially are …
Congruent Visual Speech Enhances Cortical Entrainment to Continuous Auditory Speech in Noise-Free Conditions
Congruent audiovisual speech enhances our ability to comprehend a speaker, even in noise-free conditions. When incongruent auditory and …
Optimal visual–vestibular integration under conditions of conflicting intersensory motion profiles
Passive movement through an environment is typically perceived by integrating information from different sensory signals, including …
Neurophysiological Indices of Atypical Auditory Processing and Multisensory Integration are Associated with Symptom Severity in Autism
Atypical processing and integration of sensory inputs are hypothesized to play a role in unusual sensory reactions and social-cognitive …
Atypical multisensory integration in Niemann-Pick type C disease – towards potential biomarkers
Niemann-Pick type C (NPC) is an autosomal recessive disease in which cholesterol and glycosphingolipids accumulate in lysosomes due to …
Recalibration of inhibitory control systems during walking-related dual-task interference: A Mobile Brain-Body Imaging (MOBI) Study
Walking while simultaneously performing cognitively demanding tasks such as talking or texting are typical complex behaviors in our …
A comparison of stimulus presentation methods in temporal discrimination testing
While the pathogenesis of cervical dystonia remains unknown, recent animal and clinical experimental studies have indicated its …
A headset method for measuring the visual temporal discrimination threshold in cervical dystonia
Background
The visual temporal discrimination threshold (TDT) is the shortest time interval at which one can determine two stimuli to …
The effort to close the gap; Tracking the development of illusory contour processing from childhood to adulthood with high-density electrical mapping
The adult human visual system can efficiently fill-in missing object boundaries when low-level information from the retina is …
Auditory-driven phase reset in visual cortex: Human electrocorticography reveals mechanisms of early multisensory integration
Findings in animal models demonstrate that activity within hierarchically early sensory cortical regions can be modulated by …
Cortical cross-frequency coupling predicts perceptual outcomes
Functional networks are comprised of neuronal ensembles bound through synchronization across multiple intrinsic oscillatory …
Multisensory Representation of Frequency across Audition and Touch; High Density Electrical Mapping Reveals Early Sensory-Perceptual Coupling
The frequency of environmental vibrations is sampled by two of the major sensory systems, audition and touch, notwithstanding that …
Multisensory integration in the estimation of walked distances
When walking through space, both dynamic visual information (optic flow) and body-based information (proprioceptive and vestibular) …
Mobile Brain/Body Imaging (MoBI): High-density electrical mapping of inhibitory processes during walking.
The present study investigated the feasibility of acquiring high-density event-related brain potential (ERP) recordings during …
Neural correlates of oddball detection in self-motion heading: a high-density event-related potential study of vestibular integration
The perception of self-motion is a product of the integration of information from both visual and non-visual cues, to which the …
The Development of Multisensory Integration in High-Functioning Autism; High-Density Electrical Mapping and Psychophysical Measures Reveal Impairments in the Processing of Audiovisual Inputs
Successful integration of auditory and visual inputs is crucial for both basic perceptual functions and for higher-order processes …
The Role of Stereo Vision in Visual–Vestibular Integration
Self-motion through an environment stimulates several sensory systems, including the visual system and the vestibular system. Recent …
Ready, Set, Reset; Stimulus-Locked Periodicity in Behavioral Performance Demonstrates the Consequences of Cross-Sensory Phase Rese
The simultaneous presentation of a stimulus in one sensory modality often enhances target detection in another sensory modality, but …
Motion P3 demonstrates neural nature of motion ERPs
The technical challenges of recording electroencephalographic (EEG) data during motion are considerable, but would enable the …
Electrophysiological source analysis of passive self-motion
The neural processes underlying perception of motion are relatively unknown. In this study Electroencephalography (EEG) is used to …
Common or Redundant Neural Circuits for Duration Processing across Audition and Touch
Certain features of objects or events can be represented by more than a single sensory system, such as roughness of a surface (sight, …
Auditory facilitation of visual-target detection persists regardless of retinal eccentricity and despite wide audiovisual misalignments
It is well established that sounds can enhance visual-target detection, but the mechanisms that govern these cross-sensory effects, as …
Contributions of visual and proprioceptive information to travelled distance estimation during changing sensory congruencies
Recent research has provided evidence that visual and body-based cues (vestibular, proprioceptive and efference copy) are integrated …
Bayesian integration of visual and vestibular signals for heading
Self-motion through an environment involves a composite of signals such as visual and vestibular cues. Building upon previous results …
Does jerk have to be considered in linear motion simulation?
Perceptual thresholds for the detection of the direction of linear motion are important for motion simulation. There are situations in …
Acquisition of human EEG data during linear self-motion on a Stewart platform
The present study investigated the feasibility of acquiring electroencephalography (EEG) data during self-motion in human subjects. …
Control of a Lateral Helicopter Side-step Maneuver on an Anthropomorphic Robot
Our society relies more and more on flight simulation for pilot training to enhance safety and reduce costs. But to meet the highest …
VISUAL VESTIBULAR INTERACTIONS FOR SELF MOTION ESTIMATION
Accurate perception of self-motion through cluttered environments involves a coordinated set of sensorimotor processes that encode and …
The relationship between serum zinc levels and myopia
Clinical significance: Nutritional status influences growth and development, including that of the eye. However, little attention has …