Jinglong Wu

There has been extensive discussion with regard to whether bilingualism helps ward off dementia. However, there is still debate over bilingualism's effects. Researchers have...

Alzheimer's disease, a common form of dementia, is a type of neurodegenerative disease that affects more than 30% of the population older than 85. Clinically, it is...

The prominence of dementia within the global aging population has undergone an increase in recent years. To improve the living conditions of patients, researchers must place more...

Alzheimer's disease, a common form of dementia, is a type of neurodegenerative disease that affects more than 30% of the population older than 85. Clinically, it is...

There has been extensive discussion with regard to whether bilingualism helps ward off dementia. However, there is still debate over bilingualism's effects. Researchers have...

The present studies indicate that training effects in a certain domain may result in the acquired skills being transferred to other domains that require similar abilities....

Bimodal audiovisual signals can be detected more quickly and accurately than unimodal visual signals or auditory signals. This beneficial effect is called audiovisual...

Time is a fundamental variable that must be quantified by organisms to survive. Depending on the previous functional definition, timing can be divided into explicit timing and...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been widely used to study human tactile perception. To reveal many unsolved problems to human tactile perception, developing...

The visual system is the part of the central nervous system that gives organisms the ability to process visual details and enables the formation of several non-image photo...

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) or positron emission tomography (PET), much knowledge has been gained in understanding how the brain is activated during...

New developments in medical technology have paved the way for the ongoing studies of cognitive neuroscience and biomedical engineering for healthcare. Their different but...

Technology continues to play a major role in all aspects of society, particularly healthcare. Advancements such as biomedical image processing, technology in rehabilitation, and...

The concept of tactile working memory indicated that the system can actively maintain (maintenance) and flexibly manipulate (manipulation) tactile information received from the...

To perceive our world, we make full use of multiple sources of sensory information derived from different modalities which include five basic sensory systems; visual, auditory...

In experiments examining inhibition of return (IOR), an attentional effect that inhibits the returning of attention to a previously attended location or object, a second cue...

Face perception is considered the most developed visual perceptual skill in humans. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies have graphically illustrated that...

In recent years, there have been many studies on attention. These studies have found that there are two distinct kinds of neural networks employed for visual attention and...

The sensitivity of the left ventral occipito-temporal (vOT) cortex to visual word processing has triggered a considerable debate about the functional role of this region in...

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) or positron emission tomography (PET), much knowledge has been gained in understanding how the brain is activated during...

In everyday life, visual and auditory are the most common forms of sensory information. Therefore, audiovisual interaction in the brain plays an important role in performance and...

In everyday life, our brains integrate various kinds of information from different modalities to perceive our complex environment. Spatial and temporal proximity of multisensory...

People perceive information from the outside world using several sensory organs rather than through a single one. First, relevant information is processed in the corresponding...

Bimodal audiovisual (AV) stimuli are detected or discriminated faster and more accurately than either visual or auditory unimodal stimuli. This effect is called audiovisual...

Dementia is a progressive neurodegenerative disease, of which Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most frequent cause. AD is characterized by the progressive formation of insoluble...

In humans, functional imaging studies have found a homolog of the macaque motion complex, MT+, which is suggested to contain both the middle temporal (MT) and medial superior...

Visual orienting attention is best studied using visual cues. Spatial and temporal attention have been compared using brain-imaging data. This chapter’s authors developed a...

Recent event-related fMRI studies suggest that a left-lateralized network exists for reading Chinese words (to contrast two-character Chinese words and figures). In this study...

The authors of this chapter studied behavioral performance and brain activities associated with word priming using a Japanese Word Stem Completion (WSC) task. They compared the...

Sound localization ability differs among people, such as between a young person, a senior citizen, and a dementia patient. Therefore, it is possible to detect dementia at an...

Dynamic perimetry is the area in which a subject is able to recognize a moving target by eye. It is used in medical tests to diagnose glaucoma and cataracts. Evaluation of the...

With the rapid increase in the number of elderly people, the number of people with dementia is also increasing. The most common form of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease, which...

The cognitive symptoms in early Alzheimer’s disease (AD) involve problems with learning, memory or planning. Currently, no medical tests are available to conclusively diagnose...

Numerous therapeutic rehabilitation devices have been studied. This chapter describes novel rehabilitation devices designed to treat hand movement disorders. Recently...

The purpose of this study was to develop a finger display device that has a four-degree-of-freedom (4DOF) length. This device was designed for rehabilitation and cognitive...

In rehabilitating hemiplegic patients, purposeful movements such as the opening and closing of hands are reported to be more effective than passive movement with an instrument....

The brief results of an international investigation of traffic accidents among aging people based on databases published by public institutions are discussed in this chapter. The...