BACKGROUND： The role of the left midfusiform gyrus as a target for visual word processing has been a topic of discussion. Numerous studies have utilized alphabetic writing for subject matter. However, few have addres...BACKGROUND： The role of the left midfusiform gyrus as a target for visual word processing has been a topic of discussion. Numerous studies have utilized alphabetic writing for subject matter. However, few have addressed visual processing of Chinese characters in the left midfusiform gyrus. OBJECTIVE： To verify visual processing of Chinese characters and images in the left midfusiform gyrus using functional magnetic resonance imaging. DESIGN, TIME AND SETTING： A blocked design paradigm study. Experiments were performed at the Room of Magnetic Resonance, Guangdong Provincial Second People＇s Hospital, China from May to June 2009. PARTICIPANTS： A total of eight undergraduate students were recruited from Guangzhou University of China, comprising two females and six males, aged 20-23 years. The subjects were right-handed which was determined by a Chinese standard questionnaire. None of the subjects had a history of psychoneurosis, familial disease, color blindness, or color weakness. METHODS： A total of eight undergraduates were enrolled as subjects. Picture-naming and verb generation tasks were employed through the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging. Analysis of Functional Neurolmages software was used to process the data. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES： Visual processing of Chinese characters and images in the left midfusiform gyrus was measured. RESULTS： Picture-naming and verb generation tasks were shown to significantly activate the bilateral midfusiform gyrus. Activation occurred in the visual word form area of the left midfusiform gyrus. CONCLUSION： The left midfusiform gyrus plays a general role in visual processing of Chinese characters and images.展开更多
To simulate the process of cold roll-forming process, a new method isadopted. The theoretical foundation of this method is an elastic-plastic large deformation splinefinite strip method based on object-oriented progra...To simulate the process of cold roll-forming process, a new method isadopted. The theoretical foundation of this method is an elastic-plastic large deformation splinefinite strip method based on object-oriented programming. Combined with the computer graphicstechnology, the visual simulation of cold roll-forming is completed and the system is established.By analyzing common channel steel, the process is shown and explained including theory method, modeland result display. So the simulation system is already a kind of mature and effective tool toanalyze the process of cold roll forming.展开更多
a-Amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptors are considered to play a crucial role in synaptic plasticity in the developing visual cortex. In this study, we established a rat model of binocular form ...a-Amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptors are considered to play a crucial role in synaptic plasticity in the developing visual cortex. In this study, we established a rat model of binocular form deprivation by suturing the rat binocular eyelids before eye-opening at postnatal day 14. During development, the decay time of excitatory postsynaptic currents mediated by a-amino-3- hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptors of normal rats became longer after eye- opening; however, the decay time did not change significantly in binocular form deprivation rats. The peak value in the normal group became gradually larger with age, but there was no significant change in the binocular form deprivation group. These findings indicate that binocular form deprivation influences the properties of excitatory postsynaptic currents mediated by a-amino-3- hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptors in the rat visual cortex around the end of the critical period, indicating that form stimulation is associated with the experience-dependent modification of neuronal synapses in the visual cortex.展开更多
Background:The perception of visual forms is crucial for effective interactions with our environment and for the recognition of visual objects.Thus,to determine the codes underlying this function is a fundamental theo...Background:The perception of visual forms is crucial for effective interactions with our environment and for the recognition of visual objects.Thus,to determine the codes underlying this function is a fundamental theoretical objective in the study of the visual forms perception.The vast majority of research in the field is based on a hypothetico-deductive approach.Thus,we first begin by formulating a theory,then we make predictions and finally we conduct experimental tests.After decades of application of this approach,the field remains far from having a consensus as to the traits underlying the representation of visual form.Our goal is to determine,without theoretical a priori or any bias whatsoever,the information underlying the discrimination and recognition of 3D visual forms in normal human adults.Methods:To this end,the adaptive bubble technique developed by Wang et al.[2011]is applied on six 3D synthetic objects under varying views from one test to another.This technique is based on the presentation of stimuli that are partially revealed through Gaussian windows,the location of which is random and the number of which is established in such a way as to maintain an established performance criterion.Gradually,the experimental program uses participants’performance to determine the stimulus regions that participants use to recognize objects.The synthetic objects used in this study are unfamiliar and were generated from a program produced at C.Edward Connor’s lab,Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.Results:The results were integrated across participants to establish regions of presented stimuli that determine the observers’ability to recognize them-i.e.,diagnostic attributes.The results will be reported in graphical form with a Z scores mapping that will be superimposed on silhouettes of the objects presented during the experiment.This mapping makes it possible to quantify the importance of the different regions on the visible surface of an object for its recognition by the participants.Conclusions:The diagnostic attributes that have been identified are the best described in terms of surface fragments.Some of these fragments are located on or near the outer edge of the stimulus while others are relatively distant.The overlap is minimal between the effective attributes for the different points of view of the same object.This suggests that the traits underlying the recognition of objects are specific to the point of view.In other words,they do not generalize through the points of view.展开更多
基金the Key Programming Research Project of Education Science During the 11~(th) Five-Year Plan Period of Guangdong Province, No. 06TJZ014the Programming Project of Education Science During the 11~(th) Five-Year Plan Period of Guangzhou City, No. 07B290
文摘BACKGROUND： The role of the left midfusiform gyrus as a target for visual word processing has been a topic of discussion. Numerous studies have utilized alphabetic writing for subject matter. However, few have addressed visual processing of Chinese characters in the left midfusiform gyrus. OBJECTIVE： To verify visual processing of Chinese characters and images in the left midfusiform gyrus using functional magnetic resonance imaging. DESIGN, TIME AND SETTING： A blocked design paradigm study. Experiments were performed at the Room of Magnetic Resonance, Guangdong Provincial Second People＇s Hospital, China from May to June 2009. PARTICIPANTS： A total of eight undergraduate students were recruited from Guangzhou University of China, comprising two females and six males, aged 20-23 years. The subjects were right-handed which was determined by a Chinese standard questionnaire. None of the subjects had a history of psychoneurosis, familial disease, color blindness, or color weakness. METHODS： A total of eight undergraduates were enrolled as subjects. Picture-naming and verb generation tasks were employed through the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging. Analysis of Functional Neurolmages software was used to process the data. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES： Visual processing of Chinese characters and images in the left midfusiform gyrus was measured. RESULTS： Picture-naming and verb generation tasks were shown to significantly activate the bilateral midfusiform gyrus. Activation occurred in the visual word form area of the left midfusiform gyrus. CONCLUSION： The left midfusiform gyrus plays a general role in visual processing of Chinese characters and images.
基金This project is supported by Provincial Natural Science Foundation of Hebei (No.502214).
文摘To simulate the process of cold roll-forming process, a new method isadopted. The theoretical foundation of this method is an elastic-plastic large deformation splinefinite strip method based on object-oriented programming. Combined with the computer graphicstechnology, the visual simulation of cold roll-forming is completed and the system is established.By analyzing common channel steel, the process is shown and explained including theory method, modeland result display. So the simulation system is already a kind of mature and effective tool toanalyze the process of cold roll forming.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China, No.30772350
文摘a-Amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptors are considered to play a crucial role in synaptic plasticity in the developing visual cortex. In this study, we established a rat model of binocular form deprivation by suturing the rat binocular eyelids before eye-opening at postnatal day 14. During development, the decay time of excitatory postsynaptic currents mediated by a-amino-3- hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptors of normal rats became longer after eye- opening; however, the decay time did not change significantly in binocular form deprivation rats. The peak value in the normal group became gradually larger with age, but there was no significant change in the binocular form deprivation group. These findings indicate that binocular form deprivation influences the properties of excitatory postsynaptic currents mediated by a-amino-3- hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptors in the rat visual cortex around the end of the critical period, indicating that form stimulation is associated with the experience-dependent modification of neuronal synapses in the visual cortex.
文摘Background:The perception of visual forms is crucial for effective interactions with our environment and for the recognition of visual objects.Thus,to determine the codes underlying this function is a fundamental theoretical objective in the study of the visual forms perception.The vast majority of research in the field is based on a hypothetico-deductive approach.Thus,we first begin by formulating a theory,then we make predictions and finally we conduct experimental tests.After decades of application of this approach,the field remains far from having a consensus as to the traits underlying the representation of visual form.Our goal is to determine,without theoretical a priori or any bias whatsoever,the information underlying the discrimination and recognition of 3D visual forms in normal human adults.Methods:To this end,the adaptive bubble technique developed by Wang et al.[2011]is applied on six 3D synthetic objects under varying views from one test to another.This technique is based on the presentation of stimuli that are partially revealed through Gaussian windows,the location of which is random and the number of which is established in such a way as to maintain an established performance criterion.Gradually,the experimental program uses participants’performance to determine the stimulus regions that participants use to recognize objects.The synthetic objects used in this study are unfamiliar and were generated from a program produced at C.Edward Connor’s lab,Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.Results:The results were integrated across participants to establish regions of presented stimuli that determine the observers’ability to recognize them-i.e.,diagnostic attributes.The results will be reported in graphical form with a Z scores mapping that will be superimposed on silhouettes of the objects presented during the experiment.This mapping makes it possible to quantify the importance of the different regions on the visible surface of an object for its recognition by the participants.Conclusions:The diagnostic attributes that have been identified are the best described in terms of surface fragments.Some of these fragments are located on or near the outer edge of the stimulus while others are relatively distant.The overlap is minimal between the effective attributes for the different points of view of the same object.This suggests that the traits underlying the recognition of objects are specific to the point of view.In other words,they do not generalize through the points of view.
