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Active tactile discrimination is coupled with and modulated by the cardiac cycle
eLife, 2022 Perception and cognition are modulated by the phase of the cardiac signal in which the stimuli are presented. This has been shown by locking the presentation of stimuli to distinct cardiac phases.
Alejandro Galvez-Pol +3 more
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Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences, 2022 Stroke survivors are commonly affected by somatosensory impairment, hampering their ability to interpret somatosensory information. Somatosensory information has been shown to critically support movement execution in healthy individuals and stroke ...
Eduardo Villar Ortega +5 more
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BMC Nursing, 2017 Background Tanzania is a low income, East African country with a severe shortage of human resources for health or health workers. This shortage threatens any gains the country is making in improving maternal health outcomes.
Melissa T. Ojemeni +10 more
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The Use of an Embedded Librarian to Enhance Student Information Literacy Skills: A Pilot Study
Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 2020 This pilot study explored an embedded librarian (EL) intervention to enhance occupational therapy student information literacy skills development. The EL provided computer laboratory and in-class instruction, online presence in the classroom website, and
Elaina DaLomba +6 more
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The Significance of Touch in Pediatric Physiotherapy
Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences, 2022 Change in theoretical framework over the last decades and recent research in pediatric physiotherapy, has created a debate surrounding therapeutic touch. What is the role of or is there a need for handling and hands-on facilitated guidance (facilitation)?
Marit Sørvoll +3 more
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Frontiers in Oncology, 2014 Drug resistance, de novo and acquired, pervades cellular signalling networks from one signalling motif to another as a result of cancer progression and/or drug intervention.
Alexey eGoltsov +4 more
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Stroop Interference and Facilitation Effects in Kinesthetic and Haptic Tasks
Advances in Human-Computer Interaction, 2010 Stroop interference and facilitation effects were documented in the visual, auditory, olfactory, and gustatory modalities. This study extends the Stroop phenomena also for kinesthetic and haptic tasks.
David Hecht, Miriam Reiner
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Obstacles Affect Perceptions of Egocentric Distances in Virtual Environments
Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2021 Distance perception in humans can be affected by oculomotor and optical cues and a person’s action capability in a given environment, known as action-specific effects.
Daisuke Mine +2 more
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Electrotactile displays: taxonomy, cross-modality, psychophysics and challenges
Frontiers in Virtual RealityTouch is one of the primary senses, and the receptors for touch sense are spread across the whole human body. Electrotactile displays provide tactile feedback to generate different sensations (such as tickling, tingling, itching, and pressure) in human ...
Rahul Kumar Ray +3 more
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TRPC3 and TRPC6 are essential for normal mechanotransduction in subsets of sensory neurons and cochlear hair cells [PDF]
Open Biology, 2012 Summary Transient receptor potential (TRP) channels TRPC3 and TRPC6 are expressed in both sensory neurons and cochlear hair cells. Deletion of TRPC3 or TRPC6 in mice caused no behavioural phenotype, although loss of TRPC3 caused a shift of rapidly ...
Kathryn Quick +19 more
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