In the astrophysics domain, the detection and description of gamma rays is a research direction for our understanding of the universe. Gamma-ray reconstruction from Cherenkov telescope data is multi-task by nature. The image recorded in the Cherenkov camera pixels relates to the type, energy, incoming direction and distance of a particle from a tel...
Published in Frontiers of Computer Science
Crowd flows prediction is an important problem of urban computing whose goal is to predict the number of incoming and outgoing people of regions in the future. In practice, emergency applications often require less training time. However, there is a little work on how to obtain good prediction performance with less training time. In this paper, we ...
Published in Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition
This study investigated the association between age-related hearing loss (ARHL) and differences in response efficiency and variability on a sustained attention task. The study population comprised 32 participants in a hearing loss group (HLG) and 34 controls without hearing loss (CG). Mean reaction time (RT) and accuracy were recorded to assess res...
Published in Developmental science
Young children have an overall preference for child-directed speech (CDS) over adult-directed speech (ADS), and its structural features are thought to facilitate language learning. Many studies have supported these findings, but less is known about processing of CDS at short, sub-second timescales. How do the moment-to-moment dynamics of CDS influe...
Published in Dyslexia (Chichester, England)
Developmental dyslexia is a specific reading disability characterized by decoding and spelling deficits that continue into adulthood. Because reading involves both attentional functions and audiovisual (AV) processing, the aim of this study was to explore the associations between the two factors in adult dyslexic readers. Adult non-impaired and dys...
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Recent evidence suggests a link between visual motion processing and social cognition. When person A watches person B, the brain of A apparently generates a fictitious, subthreshold motion signal streaming from B to the object of B's attention. These previous studies, being correlative, were unable to establish any functional role for the false mot...
Published in The European journal of neuroscience
To successfully encode information into long-term memory, we need top-down control to focus our attention on target stimuli. This attentional focus is achieved by the modulation of sensory neuronal excitability through alpha power. Failure to modulate alpha power and to inhibit distracting information has been reported in older adults during attent...
Published in International journal of occupational safety and ergonomics : JOSE
Purpose : The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between shift work and cognitive performance in nurses. Materials and Methods : The present before-after study was performed on 35 female nurses 25-40 years old with similar mental and physical workload. Working memory, response time and attention were assessed using Wechsler and Str...
Published in Biological psychology
Efficient learning requires allocating limited attentional resources to meaningful stimuli and away from irrelevant stimuli. This prioritization may occur via covert attention, evident in the activity of the visual cortex. We used steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEPs) to assess whether associability-driven changes in stimulus processing we...
