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Biological and Psychological Effects of Ultrasonics [PDF]

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1948
Ultrasonic and also sonic waves of high intensity may produce discomfort and even injury. The dominant biological effects of various parts of the frequency spectrum are summarized. “Discomfort” implies that some sense organ is affected; but some combinations of intensity, frequency, and duration of exposure may possibly injure without the usual warning
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Ambulatory physiological measures obtained under naturalistic urban mobility conditions have acceptable reliability

Scientific Reports
Ambulatory assessment methods in psychology and clinical neuroscience are powerful research tools for collecting data outside of the laboratory. These methods encompass physiological, behavioral, and self-report measures obtained while individuals ...
Dilber Korkmaz, Kilian Knauth, Angela Brands, Marie Schmeck, Pia Büning, Jan Peters   +5 more
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Immersive virtual reality during gait rehabilitation increases walking speed and motivation: a usability evaluation with healthy participants and patients with multiple sclerosis and stroke

Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 2021
Background The rehabilitation of gait disorders in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and stroke is often based on conventional treadmill training. Virtual reality (VR)-based treadmill training can increase motivation and improve therapy outcomes. The
Carla Winter, Florian Kern, Dominik Gall, Marc Erich Latoschik, Paul Pauli, Ivo Käthner   +5 more
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Academic psychology or the lost meaning of psychology as praxis [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2013
Academic psychology has interpreted the development of neuro-biological sciences, especially neurobiological psychology, as the death of the soul and the disappearance of its hermeneutic dimension. One could ask maliciously why the need to look so deeply
Todorović Milorad V.
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Signatures of Perseveration and Heuristic-Based Directed Exploration in Two-Step Sequential Decision Task Behaviour

Computational Psychiatry
Processes formalized in classic Reinforcement Learning (RL) theory, such as model-based (MB) control, habit formation, and exploration have proven fertile in cognitive and computational neuroscience, as well as computational psychiatry. Dysregulations in
Angela Mariele Brands, David Mathar, Jan Peters   +2 more
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Height Simulation in a Virtual Reality CAVE System: Validity of Fear Responses and Effects of an Immersion Manipulation

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2018
Acrophobia is characterized by intense fear in height situations. Virtual reality (VR) can be used to trigger such phobic fear, and VR exposure therapy (VRET) has proven effective for treatment of phobias, although it remains important to further ...
Daniel Gromer, Octávia Madeira, Philipp Gast, Markus Nehfischer, Michael Jost, Mathias Müller, Andreas Mühlberger, Paul Pauli, Paul Pauli   +8 more
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Increased user engagement on YouTube for loot box content and its potential relevance for behavioural addictions

Scientific Reports
Video games frequently contain loot boxes, i.e. virtual in-game items sharing structural similarities with gambling. On YouTube©, there are multi-million subscriber channels prominently featuring loot box-related content.
Elke Smith, Yannik Poth, Kara S. Z. Sohns, Kai Kaspar, Jan Peters   +4 more
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The necessity to choose causes the effects of reward on saccade preparation

Scientific Reports, 2017
When humans have to choose between different options, they can maximize their payoff by choosing the option that yields the highest reward. Information about reward is not only used to optimize decisions but also for movement preparation to minimize ...
Christian Wolf, Anna Heuer, Anna Schubö, Alexander C. Schütz   +3 more
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Associative learning shapes visual discrimination in a web-based classical conditioning task

Scientific Reports, 2021
Threat detection plays a vital role in adapting behavior to changing environments. A fundamental function to improve threat detection is learning to differentiate between stimuli predicting danger and safety. Accordingly, aversive learning should lead to
Yannik Stegmann, Marta Andreatta, Paul Pauli, Matthias J. Wieser   +3 more
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BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND BRAIN LOCALIZATION [PDF]

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1920
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