Right Brain Functions Research Articles

Neuromorphic vision chips

The paper reviews the progress of neuromorphic vision chip research in decades. It focuses on two kinds of the neuromorphic vision chips: frame-driven (FD) and event-driven (ED) vision chips. The FD and ED vision chips are very different from each other in system architecture, image sensing, image information coding, image processing algorithm, design methodology. The vision chips can overcome serial data transmission and processing bottlenecks in traditional image processing systems. They can perform the high speed image capture and real-time image processing operations. This paper selects two typical chips from the two kinds of vision chips, respectively, and introduces their architectures, image sensing schemes, image processing processors and system operation. The FD neuromorphic reconfigurable vision chip comprises a high speed image sensor, a processing element array and self-organizing map neural network. The FD vision chip has the advantages in image resolution, static object detection, time-multiplex image processing, and chip area. The ED neuromorphic vision chip system is based on address-event-representation image sensor and event-driven multi-kernel convolution network. The ED vision chip has the advantages in fast sensing, low communication bandwidth, brain-like processing, and high energy efficiency. Finally, this paper discusses the architecture and the challenges of the future neuromorphic vision chip and indicates that the reconfigurable vision chip with left- and right-brain functions integrated in the three dimensional (3D) large-scale integrated circuit (LSI) technology becomes a trend of the research on the vision chip.

New developments in neuroscience can benefit the learning and performance of music

ABSTRACTAs advancements in neuroscience increasingly illuminate the traditional understanding of the human mind, many of the new insights are also of relevance to musicians as well as to music pedagogy. Especially the greater understanding of how intersubjective processes are integral to the development of the right brain has shown how, according to the neuropsychoanalyst Allan Schore, right-brain models can bridge the fields of psychiatry, music and trauma. Following a short introduction, the article discusses the development of ego boundaries and their relevance to young aspiring musicians as well as the close relation to self-esteem. This is followed by a short explanation of the psychodynamic processes underlying interpersonal interaction and relation. Right-brain function in development and trauma is discussed and its links to music are highlighted; the issue of fear and learned helplessness in musicians is also considered briefly. A discussion on the impact of fear on musicians’ memory follows. The paper concludes by showing that, while brain pathology can be associated with creativity, creative processes in and of themselves are not pathological. Throughout, special reference is made to aspects that have particular relevance to previously disadvantaged music learners.

P01-302-Psychosomatics in children with cardiopathies

IntroductionIt is known the prevalence of mental pathology among patients with connective tissue disorders and functional cardiopathies essentially exceeds their prevalence in the general pediatric population.ObjectivesTo study the clinic features of psychosomatic disorders in childhood in the cardiology clinic 26 children of 5–12 years with functional cardiopathies have been investigated.MethodsChildren were surveyed by psychopathological, neurological, pediatric methods. The clinical and biochemical blood tests, urine tests, ECG, ultrasonic cardiography, sono-encephalography, EEG were investigated.ResultsIn a mental condition of children the neurotic frustration which plot was defined by cardiac complaints acted. They aroused in 52, 3% against schizotipical disorders, in 47, 7% accentuations of psychasthenic and dissociative type. In 15, 3% cases were detected transient psychotic episodes with fragmented polymorphic psychopathology. More than half of 26 children, had family history of social factors, were brought under partial maternal deprivation. Detect violations of lateralization, visual perception and information processing with weakness predominantly right-brain functions were revealed. In 92, 3% identified functional abnormalities of the structure of the heart (more trabeculae, patent foramen ovale) without hemodynamic instability.ConclusionsThus, the violations constitute one of the variants of psychosomatic disorders in children masquerading cardiac pathology. Further studies will clarify the more subtle mechanisms of marked pathology, but now there is no doubt that in creating it plays the role of a range of factors.

Visual. PlanningSM — the power of thinking visually

The basis of this paper is the need for a new approach to the design of brand identities — an approach specific to the design industry that integrates a number of different brand marketing and psychological developments. Taking as its start point the business need for increased creativity in a market of squeezed margins, burgeoning competition, proliferation of media messages and increasingly sophisticated consumers, the paper proposes using a variety of differ arrive at a new process. These include findings from in-store research into shoppers' responses to packaging; the impact of traditional planning as developed for, and practised by, advertising agencies and an understanding of left-brain right-brain functions. The resultant approach, named Visual. Planning is currently being used by brand identity designers Coley Porter Bell (CPB). This is explored theoretically and more practically in terms of its impact on business from the point of view of the company's clients and staff and for the brands it creates and redesigns.

The Relationship of Creativity Measures to School Achievement and to Preferred Learning and Thinking Style in a Sample of Korean High School Students

Two major purposes of this study were to ascertain for a sample of 193 11th-grade Korean high school students (92 males and 101 females) the extent to which performance in selected measures of creativity involving both verbal and visual tasks was related to (a) school achievement as revealed by a quantitative indicator (percentage score) and (b) the expressed preference for a given learning and thinking style as revealed in a standardized measure (Style of Learning and Thinking by Torrance) intended to portray left-brain, right-brain, or an integrated left-brain right-brain function. A secondary purpose was to identify possible gender differences of Korean students in the variables under study. The following conclusions became evident. First, measures of creativity translated from the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking show little, if any, relationship to school performance. Second, Korean high school females may be expected to exhibit higher average levels of performance on creativity tests than will their male counterparts. Third, irrespective of gender, but especially in the instance of females, those students classified as showing a learning and thinking style preference hypothesized to be associated with right-brain dominance are likely to earn higher scores on creativity measures than will those students classified as displaying a learning and thinking style preference hypothesized to correspond to either a left-brain dominance or an integrated-brain dominance.

Comment on “A Model for Studying Display Methods of Statistical Graphics”

I find Bill Cleveland's paper interesting because it argues in favor of a dichotomous framework for collection of visual information that we can develop to improve methods for graphical analysis. We would all like to believe in statistical holography; that is, that there is some instrument for looking at data (microscope, macroscope, tweezers, telescope ...) that would enable us to reconstruct the whole picture from a fragment or a distorted one, just as a piece of a holographic plate contains (in harder to read, fuzzier form) the whole, or original picture. The instrument we have at hand for casting some useful light on the is a system formed by a computer screen with several graphical windows: a command window that accesses a statistical toolbox, a keyboard and a mouse in front of which lies the key to the system, and the best neural net available-a brain. It is important to establish how to optimize the whole system, and taking into account interfaces and some things we know about the brain helps. Table look-up and pattern recognition characterize two separate brain functions that I will label, for historical reasons, left-brain and right-brain functions. Although today's picture of the brain is a mixture between patchwork and network, I will use the left-brain/right-brain metaphor-as illustrated in Figure 1-to stress that the brain does two (at least) different things at the same time and in a completely different way:

Let there be life: an approach to worship with Alzheimer's patients and their families.

Describes a novel approach to providing a meaningful worship service for Alzheimer's patients in which greater stress is placed upon familiar scripture, music, prayers, and other right-brain functions, rather than on sermon or homily.

Nonverbal disorders of learning: The reverse of dyslexia?

Teacher perceptions of the social-behavioral characteristics of 99 boys were examined. Subjects were divided into three groups (Low Nonverbal, High Nonverbal, Equal) on the basis of their scores on two verbal and two performance WISC-R subtests, considered to be good measures of left- and right-brain functioning. The pattern of strengths and weaknesses shown by Low Nonverbal subjects suggested good left-brain functioning, but a right-brain dysfunction. These subjects were good readers, but relatively weak in arithmetic. Behaviors reported significantly more often for the Low Nonverbal subjects were low motivation, poor work habits, inability to work independently or to take age-related responsibility, disorganization, and poor relationships with peers. High Nonverbal subjects, who exhibited signs of a probable left-brain dysfunction, were usually perceived by their teachers as sociable, responsible, and determined to succeed, in spite of their having language disorders and dyslexia. It is argued that the constellation of behaviors displayed by the Low Nonverbal subjects is part of the right-brain dysfunction syndrome. To date, there are limited resources available for helping such children.