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Visual memory has been demonstrated to play a role in both visual search and attentional prioritization in natural scenes. However, it has been studied predominantly in experimental paradigms using multiple two-dimensional images. Natural experience, however, entails prolonged immersion in a limited number of three-dimensional environments. The goal of the present experiment was to recreate circumstances comparable to natural visual experience in order to evaluate the role of scene memory in guiding eye movements in a natural environment. Subjects performed a continuous visual-search task within an immersive virtual-reality environment over three days. We found that, similar to two-dimensional contexts, viewers rapidly learn the location of objects in the environment over time, and use spatial memory to guide search. Incidental fixations did not provide obvious benefit to subsequent search, suggesting that semantic contextual cues may often be just as efficient, or that many incidentally fixated items are not held in memory in the absence of a specific task. On the third day of the experience in the environment, previous search items changed in color. These items were fixated upon with increased probability relative to control objects, suggesting that memory-guided prioritization (or Surprise) may be a robust mechanisms for attracting gaze to novel features of natural environments, in addition to task factors and simple spatial saliency. 相似文献
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Chi Wah Wong Valur Olafsson Markus Plank Joseph Snider Eric Halgren Howard Poizner Thomas T. Liu 《PloS one》2014,9(10)
In the real world, learning often proceeds in an unsupervised manner without explicit instructions or feedback. In this study, we employed an experimental paradigm in which subjects explored an immersive virtual reality environment on each of two days. On day 1, subjects implicitly learned the location of 39 objects in an unsupervised fashion. On day 2, the locations of some of the objects were changed, and object location recall performance was assessed and found to vary across subjects. As prior work had shown that functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) measures of resting-state brain activity can predict various measures of brain performance across individuals, we examined whether resting-state fMRI measures could be used to predict object location recall performance. We found a significant correlation between performance and the variability of the resting-state fMRI signal in the basal ganglia, hippocampus, amygdala, thalamus, insula, and regions in the frontal and temporal lobes, regions important for spatial exploration, learning, memory, and decision making. In addition, performance was significantly correlated with resting-state fMRI connectivity between the left caudate and the right fusiform gyrus, lateral occipital complex, and superior temporal gyrus. Given the basal ganglia''s role in exploration, these findings suggest that tighter integration of the brain systems responsible for exploration and visuospatial processing may be critical for learning in a complex environment. 相似文献
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In human perception, the ability to determine eye height is essential, because eye height is used to scale heights of objects, velocities, affordances and distances, all of which allow for successful environmental interaction. It is well understood that eye height is fundamental to determine many of these percepts. Yet, how eye height itself is provided is still largely unknown. While the information potentially specifying eye height in the real world is naturally coincident in an environment with a regular ground surface, these sources of information can be easily divergent in similar and common virtual reality scenarios. Thus, we conducted virtual reality experiments where we manipulated the virtual eye height in a distance perception task to investigate how eye height might be determined in such a scenario. We found that humans rely more on their postural cues for determining their eye height if there is a conflict between visual and postural information and little opportunity for perceptual-motor calibration is provided. This is demonstrated by the predictable variations in their distance estimates. Our results suggest that the eye height in such circumstances is informed by postural cues when estimating egocentric distances in virtual reality and consequently, does not depend on an internalized value for eye height. 相似文献
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Physiological Responses of Spring Durum Wheat Cultivars to Early-season Drought in a Mediterranean Environment 总被引:7,自引:0,他引:7
The Mediterranean climate of North Africa is characterized byuncertain rainfall immediately after seedling emergence, leadingto drought early in the growing season which depresses durumwheat production. However, there is limited understanding ofthe physiological basis of resistance of spring durum wheatto drought in rainfed Mediterranean regions. The objectivesof this study were to examine differences in some physiologicalcharacters among spring durum wheat cultivars in response toduration of early-season drought, and to determine the relationshipof these characters to drought resistance. In two field experiments(1995 and 1996 growing seasons) and a glasshouse experiment(1996), six spring sown durum wheat cultivars were evaluatedunder four water regimes: well irrigated and three differentwater deficits from emergence until the onset of tillering,mid-tillering or at the end of tillering. Cultivars differedin their response. Decreases in photosynthesis soon after droughtstress was imposed resulted mainly from reduced stomatal conductance.Continued water deficits also reduced mesophyll photosyntheticactivity. Possible factors determining the drought-resistanceof a cultivar are lower sensitivity of CO2exchange rate, netCO2uptake to water loss ratio, stomatal resistance, relativewater content and greater osmotic adjustment under stress. Furthermore,there is sufficient intraspecific variation in these physiologicalattributes to suggest their use as selection tools.Copyright1998 Annals of Botany Company Wheat;Triticum durumDesf.; early-season drought; physiological responses. 相似文献
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We studied the effects of unexpected shifts of the visually perceived artificial surroundings (virtual visual environment,
VVE) on postural reactions evoked by vibrational stimulation of proprioceptors of the shin muscles; tests were performed in
a standing position of the subject. The VVE possessed two planes, a mobile foreground, whose displacements correlated with
oscillations of the body, and a stationary background. The subjects were asked to use the latter as a reference system in
corrections of the posture. The VVE parameters were controlled by a computer; shifts of the VVE foreground were combined with
similar, in their duration and profile, stimulation-evoked displacements of the body. Despite the fact that the subjects had
a possibility to use the stationary background as the reference system, the magnitudes of the evoked postural responses under
conditions of perception of the VVE significantly exceeded the respective magnitudes upon standing with the eyes open in front
of a completely stationary visual image. Postural responses progressively increased with increases in relative values of the
shifts of the VVE foreground but always remained smaller than the responses under conditions of testing with the eyes closed.
Augmentation of the postural responses at a synphase pattern of interrelations between the body movements and VVE shifts was
more significant than at antiphase relations. Thus, shifts of the VVE foreground, on the one hand, destabilized the maintenance
of the vertical posture, which resulted in intensification of the postural responses. On the other hand, such shifts allowed
the subject to use them as feedback signals and to modulate the magnitude of postural responses when there was a change in
the direction of interrelations between the body movements and the perceived visual image. 相似文献
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Marcus Leinweber Pawel Zmarz Peter Buchmann Paul Argast Mark Hübener Tobias Bonhoeffer Georg B. Keller 《Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE》2014,(84)
In recent years, two-photon imaging has become an invaluable tool in neuroscience, as it allows for chronic measurement of the activity of genetically identified cells during behavior1-6. Here we describe methods to perform two-photon imaging in mouse cortex while the animal navigates a virtual reality environment. We focus on the aspects of the experimental procedures that are key to imaging in a behaving animal in a brightly lit virtual environment. The key problems that arise in this experimental setup that we here address are: minimizing brain motion related artifacts, minimizing light leak from the virtual reality projection system, and minimizing laser induced tissue damage. We also provide sample software to control the virtual reality environment and to do pupil tracking. With these procedures and resources it should be possible to convert a conventional two-photon microscope for use in behaving mice. 相似文献
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Mager R Stefani O Angehrn I Mueller-Spahn F Bekiaris E Wiederhold BK Sulzenbacher H Bullinger AH 《Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback》2005,30(3):233-238
In today’s society, there is an increasing number of workplaces in virtual environments (VE). But, there are only a few reports dealing with occupational health issues or age effects. The question arises how VR generally interferes with cognitive processes. This interference might have relevant implications for workability and work-efficiency in virtual environments. Event-related potentials are known to reflect different stages of stimulus reception, evaluation, and response. We have established an electroencephalographic (EEG) monitoring, focussing on event-related potentials (N100; mismatch negativity, i.e., MMN) to obtain access to attention dependent and pre-attentive processing of sensory stimuli applied in VE. The MMN is known to be correlated with the ability of subjects to react to an unexpected event. The aim of the present study was to investigate cognitive responses to distracting auditory stimuli in two different age groups in a virtual environment (VE) and in a real environment (“real reality”), and to compare characteristic neurophysiological response patterns. Data show that stimulus detection as given by the N100 amplitude and latency does not differ in both age groups and task conditions. In contrast, the pre-attentive processing as given by the MMN is altered in the VR such as the non-VR condition in an age-related manner. A relevant finding of the present study was that the age related differences seen in the non-VR condition were not strengthened in VR. 相似文献
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Do peripersonal space for acting on objects and interpersonal space for interacting with con-specifics share common mechanisms and reflect the social valence of stimuli? To answer this question, we investigated whether these spaces refer to a similar or different physical distance.Methodology
Participants provided reachability-distance (for potential action) and comfort-distance (for social processing) judgments towards human and non-human virtual stimuli while standing still (passive) or walking toward stimuli (active).Principal Findings
Comfort-distance was larger than other conditions when participants were passive, but reachability and comfort distances were similar when participants were active. Both spaces were modulated by the social valence of stimuli (reduction with virtual females vs males, expansion with cylinder vs robot) and the gender of participants.Conclusions
These findings reveal that peripersonal reaching and interpersonal comfort spaces share a common motor nature and are sensitive, at different degrees, to social modulation. Therefore, social processing seems embodied and grounded in the body acting in space. 相似文献14.
Ryle, G. J. A., Powell, C. E. and Gordon, A. J. 1988. Responsesof N2 fixation-linked respiration to host-plant energy statusin white clover acclimated to a controlled environment.J.exp. Bot. 39: 879887. Single plants of white clover, acclimated to a controlled environmentand dependent for nitrogen on N2 fixation in their root nodules,were darkened, defoliated or exposed to enhanced CO2 levelsto establish the quantitative relationships between the photosynthesisof the host plant and the N2 fixation metabolism of root nodules. The nodule respiration associated with N2 fixation (FLR) declinedrapidly to 1015% of its normal rate following plant darkeningearly in the photoperiod. Darkening at progressively later intervalsduring the photoperiod demonstrated a positive, apparently linearrelationship between duration of illumination and total FLRduring the photoperiod and the following night period. Completeor partial defoliation reduced FLR according to the leaf arearemoved: again, there was a strong positive correlation betweencurrent rate of photosynthesis, whether of defoliated or undefoliatedplants and the FLR of root nodules. Doubling the current rateof photosynthesis, by enhancing CO2 levels around the shoots,promoted FLR within 12 h when plants were stressed bylack of light. However, enhanced CO2 levels increased FLR onlyslowly over a period of several hours in plants entrained tothe normal growing conditions. It is concluded that, in these plants acclimated to a uniformand favourable controlled environment, the supply and utilizationof photosynthetic assimilate in N2 fixation was finely balancedand quantitatively linked during a single diurnal period andthat nodule functioning was not depressed by lack of energysubstrate. Key words: White clover, N2 fixation, photosynthesis. 相似文献
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Stomatal behaviour in cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) was analysed and modelled as a function of different greenhouse environmental parameters, under variable summer conditions. Solar radiation was the main regulating factor. During the day, large atmospheric vapour pressure deficit increased transpiration which was followed by a reduction in stomatal aperture, suggesting the presence of a feedback response to water stress. However, stomatal behaviour was more sensitive to high atmospheric vapour pressure deficit when this was accompanied by a rapid decrease of solar radiation. The response to the difference between leaf and air temperature was also influenced by air vapour pressure deficit and duration of plant exposure to high evaporative demand. Calculation of the crop water stress index showed that the air vapour pressure deficit of 1 kPa used in the control treatment probably caused water stress and induced some hardening, a necessary condition for adaptation to summer climate in southern Europe. The importance of the interaction between climatic parameters and plant response in greenhouse environmental management is analysed. Classical models of stomatal resistance are also discussed. 相似文献
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Irma Schabussova Onisa Ul-Haq Elisabeth Hoflehner Johnnie Akgün Angelika Wagner Gerhard Loupal Anja Joachim B?rbel Ruttkowski Rick M. Maizels Ursula Wiedermann 《PloS one》2013,8(7)
One third of the human population is currently infected by one or more species of parasitic helminths. Certain helminths establish long-term chronic infections resulting in a modulation of the host’s immune system with attenuated responsiveness to “bystander” antigens such as allergens or vaccines. In this study we investigated whether parasite-derived products suppress the development of allergic inflammation in a mouse model. We show that extract derived from adult male Oesophagostomum dentatum (eMOD) induced Th2 and regulatory responses in BALB/c mice. Stimulation of bone marrow-derived dendritic cells induced production of regulatory cytokines IL-10 and TGF-beta. In a mouse model of birch pollen allergy, co-administration of eMOD with sensitizing allergen Bet v 1 markedly reduced the production of allergen-specific antibodies in serum as well as IgE-dependent basophil degranulation. Furthermore, eMOD prevented the development of airway inflammation, as demonstrated by attenuation of bronchoalveolar lavages eosinophil influx, peribronchial inflammatory infiltrate, and mucus secretion in lungs and IL-4 and IL-5 levels in lung cell cultures. Reduced secretion of Th2-related cytokines by birch pollen-re-stimulated splenocytes and mesenteric lymph node cells was observed in eMOD-treated/sensitized and challenged mice in comparison to sensitized and challenged controls. The suppressive effects of eMOD were heat-stable. Immunization with model antigens in the presence of eMOD reduced production of antibodies to thymus-dependent but not to thymus-independent antigen, suggesting that suppression of the immune responses by eMOD was mediated by interference with antigen presenting cell or T helper cell function but did not directly suppress B cell function. In conclusion, we have shown that eMOD possesses immunomodulatory properties and that heat-stable factors in eMOD are responsible for the dramatic suppression of allergic responses in a mouse model of type I allergy. The identification and characterization of parasite-derived immune-modulating molecules might have potential for designing novel prophylactic/therapeutic strategies for immune-mediated diseases. 相似文献
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Bystander effects: a concept in need of clarification 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Djordjevic B 《BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology》2000,22(3):286-290
An increasing body of evidence indicates that the response to genotoxic agents such as radiation or drugs is a group phenomenon, rather than the summed response of individual independent cells to injury. Thus, a complex contagion-like response may spread beyond the initial impact of an agent to enlarge its effect. This indirect effect, termed "Bystander Effect," is multifaceted and may play a significant role in the therapy of tumors and in carcinogenesis. A better understanding of this phenomenon is needed in order to modulate treatment protocols to therapeutic advantage and to provide more rational guidelines for the evaluation of environmental hazards. 相似文献
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The Earth has been undergoing climatic changes for centuries, driven by increasing concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). The atmospheric CO2 concentration has been predicted to reach 550–750 μmol mol?1 by 2050, or twice as high as the current level. Much of the research in the last 20–30 years concerning elevated CO2 (eCO2) has been about how plants would respond to the eCO2 at physiological levels. As eCO2 can lead to more frequent drought or extreme high or low temperature, increasingly more research has focused on the interactions between eCO2 and other abiotic stresses. How stresses may affect plant growth and development and productivity, as well as how agricultural practices may be altered to cope with these changes must be determined. These concerns have been the subject of numerous reviews. However, it is only in the last several years that data at the “omics” levels has been available to explore how necessary physiological changes may be brought about in a future complex environment. The systems biology approaches provide us an insight into the mechanism of plant responses to climatic changes at the genomics level. In this review, we present an overview of physiological effects of eCO2 on plants, but focus on the interactions of eCO2 with drought, high temperature, O3, and multiple abiotic stresses, with particular emphasis at the molecular and genomics levels. We also provide perspectives on future research and emphasize the importance of integrated research on eCO2 and multiple environmental stresses using systems biology approaches. 相似文献
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Bullinger AH Hemmeter UM Stefani O Angehrn I Mueller-Spahn F Bekiaris E Wiederhold BK Sulzenbacher H Mager R 《Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback》2005,30(3):205-216
Fully immersive and stereoscopic Virtual Environments (VE) represent a powerful multimedia tool for laboratory-based simulations of distinct scenarios including scenarios for evaluating stressful situations resembling reality. Thus far, cortisol secretion as a neuroendocrine parameter of stress has not been evaluated within a Virtual Reality (VR)-based paradigm. In this study 94 healthy volunteers were subjected to a provocative VR-paradigm and a cognitive stress task. Provocative in this context means the VE was designed to provoke physiological reactions (cortisol secretion) within the respective users by purpose. It was tested (a) if a fully dynamic VE as opposed to a static VE can be regarded as a stressor and (b) if such a fully dynamic VE can modify an additional response to a cognitive stressor presented within the VE additionally. Furthermore, possible gender-related impacts on cortisol responses were assessed. A significant cortisol increase was observed only after the combined application of the fully dynamic VE and the cognitive stressor, but not after application of the dynamic VE or the cognitive stressor alone. Cortisol reactivity was greater for men than for women. We conclude that a fully dynamic VE does not affect cortisol secretion per se, but increases cortisol responses to a dual task paradigm that includes performance of a stressful mental task. This provides the basis for the application of VR-based technologies in neuroscientific research, including the assessment of the human Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis regulation. 相似文献
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Laura Ozella Irene Carnovale Daniela Pessani 《Journal of applied animal welfare science : JAAWS》2013,16(3):303-309
Nonhuman animals in zoos are exposed to a continuous human presence, which affects their behaviors and welfare. However, little is known about what role the “visitor effect” has on penguins in captivity. The African penguin (Spheniscus demersus) is an endangered species commonly housed in zoos worldwide. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether the abundance of human bathers could reduce the average time spent in the water of a colony of African penguins housed in an exhibit where their pond habitat was adjacent to a swimming pool. Observations were carried out on 7 penguins in the summer of 2009. Data were collected during 3 time periods (Time 1 [T1] = opening of the swimming season, Time 2 [T2] = core of the season, Time 3 [T3] = late season) of 14 days each. The human disturbance caused by bathers strongly reduced the pond use by penguins at T1 and T2, especially when there were large numbers of visitors. However, at T3, we observed that the overall use of the pond by penguins increased, and the average duration of their diving was no longer dependent on the number of visitors. 相似文献