«There seems to be a component of a person's mental representation
of the spatial environment, for example, the ability to picture the streets like a mental map,» Watts said.
As a result, these works measure out an intervention into the space around them with such clarity and precision that they surprise the viewer into a more acute appreciation
of the spatial environment that they themselves inhabit.
Within this range
of spatial environment Isamu Noguchi's Akari lanterns hold a unique place, expressing his Japanese's American heritage in works designed to enhance the quality everyday life.
As an installation artist, he is particularly interested in the physical aspect of sound and its potential to define the form and atmosphere
of a spatial environment.»
The work has received a lot of attention both nationally and internationally, and the discovery of «grid cells» which comprise a neural map
of the spatial environment will appear in neuroscience textbooks.
We are also establishing novel functional strategies, based on targeted and high throughput reporter assays, to assess the relevance
of the spatial environment on gene regulation.
«There seems to be a component of a person's mental representation
of the spatial environment, for example, the ability to picture the streets like a mental map,» Watts said.
Not exact matches
Equivalently, then, that successor presiding occasion prehends the mentality
of its predecessor (s) in the dominant subsociety, not directly through
spatial contiguity, but through the patterns
of activity already present both in the brain as its immediate
environment and in the entire organism as its overall field
of activity.
Contrariwise, divine relativity can make sense
of omnipresence, especially when seen in terms
of Hartshorne's understanding
of the world being the body
of God: «For God there is no external
environment, the divine body just is the
spatial whole; moreover, this body is vividly and distinctly perceived» (OOTM 94).
As part
of the limbic system, it plays an important role in memory processing and
spatial cognition, including how mammals learn to understand and navigate their
environment.
Brain imaging techniques revealed that men found their way out
of the maze using the left hippocampus, a memory storage region that also governs
spatial mapping in the physical
environment.
Because SR - STORM gives full spectral and
spatial information for each molecule, the technology opens the door to high - resolution imaging
of multiple components and local chemical
environments, such as pH variations, inside a cell.
The fact that experience can shape individual differences, which in turn can affect the quality
of spatial and social cognition a person, suggests that growing up in certain built
environments can have detrimental or beneficial effects on their cognitive ability.
The information that has to be processed passes these three regions successively like a traffic route with each region processing different
spatial information
of the
environment.
To test whether the hippocampus could actually form
spatial maps using only visual landmarks, Mehta's team devised a noninvasive virtual reality
environment and studied how the hippocampal neurons in the brains
of rats reacted in the virtual world without the ability to use smells and sounds as cues.
The
spatial range corresponding to a good signal - to - noise ratio was tens
of meters in the indoor noise
environment of the NIST tests, but could be extended to hundreds
of meters if the noise were reduced to the sensitivity levels
of the sensor.
Langston et al. (p. 1576) and Wills et al. (p. 1573) investigated the early development
of spatial activity in the hippocampal formation and the entorhinal cortex
of rat pups when they first began to explore their
environment.
Kane, V.R., et al., Assessing fire effects on forest
spatial structure using a fusion
of Landsat and airborne LiDAR data in Yosemite National Park, Remote Sensing
of Environment (2013)
In a 2014 study in rats, researchers at the University
of California found that the neurons in a brain region associated with
spatial learning behaved completely differently in virtual
environments compared to in real ones, with more than half
of the neurons shutting down while in VR.
«We think the cognitive map in the hippocampus is not just for knowing where the self is located,» says Fujisawa, «but also for plotting the locations
of other people, animals, or objects, and to comprehend the
spatial environment surrounding the self.»
While chimps performed well on tests involving their physical
environment and
spatial reasoning, they did not do as well when it came to tests
of cooperative communication skills, such as the ability to follow a pointing finger or human gaze.
Despite these limitations, drones provide a useful new source
of detailed
spatial information to understand the interactions between the
environment and infectious diseases.
To test the long - term
spatial memory
of mice, the scientists trained the rodents to spot a new object placed in a controlled
environment where two objects
of similar shape and volume stand.
Testing the great apes against 12 German children nearing five years
of age, the researchers found that all performed best when the hidden block was found under a cup that maintained the same
spatial relationship to the surrounding
environment.
The hippocampus, for instance, represents
spatial information using «place» cells that map the
environment, potentially explaining how it might contribute to the «where» component
of episodic memory.
In their new study, the researchers reveal that one
of the main classes
of basket cells plays a key role in how the brain represents and remembers our
environment, called
spatial information coding.
Funding for this research was provided by The Swedish University
of Agricultural Sciences, the Swedish Research Council for
Environment, Agricultural Sciences and
Spatial Planning, the National Natural Science Foundation
of China and the Carl Tryggers Foundation.
A key to the connection between smell, memory and navigation is that olfactory bulbs have a strong neural link to the brain's hippocampus, which creates
spatial maps
of our
environment.
The subjects completed a
spatial learning task that consisted
of navigation through a virtual
environment to deliver passengers to stores (Fig. 1 in the Supplementary Appendix).
From these data, we quantify the population genetic parameters
of the intra-patient
environment to aid modeling efforts such as the
spatial - monotherapy work.
The divergence between fungal and bacterial communities in seasonal and
spatial variations
of wastewater treatment plants — Ziyan Wei — Science
of The Total
Environment
The research outcomes provide fundamental understanding
of the
spatial scales at which fish interact with their
environment and perform functions critical to coral reef condition.
Ari received his Ph.D. from Duke University in Ecology, where he studied the
spatial ecology
of humpback and minke whales in the Antarctic, and showed how the distribution
of each species was related to their prey and other physical features
of the
environment.
The relative roles
of genes and rearing
environment on the
spatial cognitive ability
of two sympatric species
of threespine stickleback.
Lauren uses poison frogs as a model for understanding how variation in predation and
spatial structure
of the
environment has driven the evolution
of chemical defences and parental behaviors.
His main research interests is the study
of microbial diversity, specifically
of protists, in the marine
environment, both in terms
of a description
of the taxonomic composition
of these assemblages as well as understanding their patterns
of temporal and
spatial variation in the
environment.
Curacao: St. Maarten new cabinet expected to be sworn in this week — The land granted to her by then - Minister
of Public Housing,
Spatial Development,
Environment and Infrastructure VROMI William Marlin on May 31, 2013, related to a request dating back to November 21, 2005.
He's always aware
of spatial relationships between characters and their
environment, and his camerawork always enhances this rather than obscuring it.
Rather than cheating its way around
spatial design with the kind
of connective smoke and mirrors that many video games traditionally use, Souls ensures that every one
of its
environments makes total, internal sense, and eventually links back up with itself in order to create retroactive shortcuts between end and beginning.
Thedevelopment planningof cities, the
spatial distribution
of population and economic activities
of the municipality and the territory under its influence should avoid and correct the distortions
of urban growth and its negative effects on the
environment.
How to analyze the
spatial organization
of people, places, and
environments on Earth's surface
Spatial analysis and social spaces: Interdisciplinary approaches to the interpretation
of prehistoric and historic built
environments (Topoi — Berlin Studies... — Berliner Studien der Alt
In recent years a range
of formal methods
of spatial analysis have been developed for the study
of human engagement, experience and socialisation within the built
environment.
Rarely involved in the creation
of our
environment, it has the unexplored potential
of combining the socio -
spatial dimensions
of self - organizing urban processes.
With each shift in position the works» intersecting lines appear to reframe their
spatial environment, revealing new facets
of even the most familiar terrain.
Combine these with the subtle soundtrack, creates a beautiful ambience that forges the illusionary depth
of RiftStar Raiders»
spatial environment.
The
environments are connected in such a way that it makes
spatial sense — it has to, since navigation depends sense
of direction and memory.
Sarah Oppenheimer's work pivots between sculpture and architecture, disrupting our experience
of spatial continuity and shaping our experience
of the built
environment.
The presentation
of the boxes as a group allows for their unique
spatial arrangements and colors to be apprehended by the viewer as a whole, while also emphasizing their relationship to the surrounding architectural
environment.
As they move through the gallery, visitors will experience this new
spatial ambiguity and find themselves manipulating or being manipulated by the multitude
of bubbles, spheres, and malleable
environments.