Sentences with phrase «of spatial environments»

«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.

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.

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.

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.»

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 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.

«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.