Signals - Travors

Physiological signals could be the key to ’emotionally clever’ AI, scientists say

April 6, 2022 by Tony Grantly

Journal Reference: Shun Katada, Shogo Okada, Kazunori Komatani. Effects of Physiological Signals in Different Types of Multimodal Sentiment Estimation. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2022; 1 DOI: 10.1109/TAFFC.2022.3155604 “Multimodal sentiment analysis” is a group of methods that constitute the gold standard for an AI dialog system with sentiment detection. These methods can automatically analyze a … Read more

Men and women process pain signals differently

March 26, 2022 by Tony Grantly

Journal Reference: Annemarie Dedek, Jian Xu, Louis-Étienne Lorenzo, Antoine G Godin, Chaya M Kandegedara, Geneviève Glavina, Jeffrey A Landrigan, Paul J Lombroso, Yves De Koninck, Eve C Tsai, Michael E Hildebrand. Sexual dimorphism in a neuronal mechanism of spinal hyperexcitability across rodent and human models of pathological pain. Brain, 2022; DOI: 10.1093/brain/awab408 Although it has … Read more

‘Scents’ of alarm: Volatile chemical signals from damaged plants warn neighbors about herbivore attacks

March 10, 2022 by Tony Grantly

‘Scents’ of alarm: Volatile chemical signals from damaged plants warn neighbors about herbivore attacks – NovLink Home Mash M ‘Scents’ of alarm: Volatile chemical signals from damaged plants warn neighbors about herbivore attacks We wish to give thanks to the author of this post for this remarkable content ‘Scents’ of alarm: Volatile chemical signals from … Read more

Exploring the signals that underlie learning

February 14, 2022 by Tony Grantly

Journal Reference: Christian Waiblinger, Megan E. McDonnell, April R. Reedy, Peter Y. Borden, Garrett B. Stanley. Emerging experience-dependent dynamics in primary somatosensory cortex reflect behavioral adaptation. Nature Communications, 2022; 13 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-28193-z Your brain is processing new sensations from the outside world — how the instrument feels, sounds, looks — and making decisions, based … Read more

How migraine pain signals are generated, and blocked

February 11, 2022 by Tony Grantly

Journal Reference: Francesco De Logu, Romina Nassini, Alan Hegron, Lorenzo Landini, Dane D. Jensen, Rocco Latorre, Julia Ding, Matilde Marini, Daniel Souza Monteiro de Araujo, Paulina Ramírez-Garcia, Michael Whittaker, Jeffri Retamal, Mustafa Titiz, Alessandro Innocenti, Thomas P. Davis, Nicholas Veldhuis, Brian L. Schmidt, Nigel W. Bunnett, Pierangelo Geppetti. Schwann cell endosome CGRP signals elicit periorbital … Read more

Study shows brain differences in interpreting physical signals in mental health disorders

December 26, 2021 by Tony Grantly

Journal Reference: Camilla L. Nord, Rebecca P. Lawson, Tim Dalgleish. Disrupted Dorsal Mid-Insula Activation During Interoception Across Psychiatric Disorders. American Journal of Psychiatry, 2021; appi.ajp.2020.2 DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.20091340 The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, found that the part of the brain which interprets physical signals from the body behaves differently in people with a range … Read more