Sentences with phrase «of tactile information»

And its steering, though improved in that same update, is still pretty much devoid of any tactile information about what the front wheels are doing.

There's much made of smell and the importance of tactile information, how similar the feeling of muck and shit against bare skin is to eating a slice of chocolate cake with your hands.

The illusion now disappears, suggesting that the filling in occurs at an early stage of tactile information processing, not at the higher level of space representation in the brain.

Not exact matches

Advances include development of routes and surfaces that are more wheelchair and walker friendly; signage that includes Braille text and other tactile information to describe specific points of ecological interest; and trail «tours» that can be experienced through cell phones and other smart devices.

«This knowledge will be embodied into a novel generation of sensitive robotic hands able to convey fine tactile information to amputees, says lead bioroboticist Calogero Oddo.

Using an electroencephalogram (EEG) to detect electrical activity in the brain, Emmanuelle Tognoli, Ph.D., co-principal investigator, associate research professor in FAU's Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, and an expert in electrophysiology and neural, behavioral, and cognitive sciences, will examine how the tactile information from the robotic sensors is passed onto the brain to distinguish scenarios with successful or unsuccessful functional restoration of the sense of touch.

Tactile information also could benefit the blind, users of dashboard technology in cars, players of video games and more.

In a sense, the ultimate key question is how the brain conducts the mysterious process by which it absorbs information in the form of lights and colors, sounds, smells and tactile inputs and transforms them into physical actions — ideally behaviors that are appropriate responses to the inputs.

Such molecular understanding about the sensory information transmission between Merkel cells and nerve endings may lay the foundation to treat the intense pain felt by patients with a gentle touch of their inflamed skin — a pathological pain known as tactile allodynia.

«To get a good picture of how stimulus information is being conveyed in these afferent populations, you have to look at a diverse set of stimuli that spans the range of what you might feel in everyday tactile experience,» he said.

Tactile sensors are data acquisition devices that detect and measure a diversity of properties arising from physical interaction and translate the information acquired to be analysed by an interconnected intelligent system.

Roundworms find a mate by launching a systematic search of the environment, integrating scent and tactile information.

When I introduce a new piece of equipment, I describe it and students have to be able to touch it, feel it, squeeze it — they need that tactile information to understand how it's going to work.

«The artworks in Second Sight invoke the nonvisual through numerous techniques, which may include the process of their creation, their activation of tactile or sonic experience, or their use of language rather than image to convey information,» noted Tani.

This delightful, surprising and tactile exhibition catalogue examines the relationship between nature and the man - made world, reevaluating of our perceptions of reality, of how we read information, meaning and poetry in the physical world around us.

This tactile knowledge filters back into their work in torn pages, layers, metallic bits, and shards of information, precariously juxtaposing ancient against industry, governments and the onslaught of Nature.

The destruction of tactile documents, from the legendary burning of the Library of Alexandria to the recent loss of museum artefacts in Syria to civil war, are examples of how physical objects of knowledge and information can be lost, but the intangible online one is just as prone.

The tactile power of words are emphasized in an abstract way; Wildenboer sees encyclopedias as a «threatened information system,» and her use of these forsaken volumes is a way to preserve and highlight their importance in the history of the written word.

There's a great line from a book called, «Hunting and Gathering on the Information Savanna `, where the authors refer to the «tactile delight of dealing with card drawers.»