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Multimodal interactions in insect navigation
Animals travelling through the world receive input from multiple sensory modalities that could be important for the guidance of their journeys. Given the availability of a rich array of cues, from idiothetic information to input from sky compasses and visual information through to olfactory and other cues (e.g. gustatory, magnetic, anemotactic or thermal) it is no surprise to see multimodality in most aspects of navigation. In this review, we present the current knowledge of multimodal cue use during orientation and navigation in insects. Multimodal cue use is adapted to a species’ sensory ecology and shapes navigation behaviour both during the learning of environmental cues and when performing complex foraging journeys. The simultaneous use of multiple cues is beneficial because it provides redundant navigational information, and in general, multimodality increases robustness, accuracy and overall foraging success. We use examples from sensorimotor behaviours in mosquitoes and flies as well as from large scale navigation in ants, bees and insects that migrate seasonally over large distances, asking at each stage how multiple cues are combined behaviourally and what insects gain from using different modalities
Affordances and Safe Design of Assistance Wearable Virtual Environment of Gesture
Safety and reliability are the main issues for designing assistance wearable
virtual environment of technical gesture in aerospace, or health application
domains. That needs the integration in the same isomorphic engineering
framework of human requirements, systems requirements and the rationale of
their relation to the natural and artifactual environment.To explore coupling
integration and design functional organization of support technical gesture
systems, firstly ecological psychologyprovides usa heuristicconcept: the
affordance. On the other hand mathematical theory of integrative physiology
provides us scientific concepts: the stabilizing auto-association principle and
functional interaction.After demonstrating the epistemological consistence of
these concepts, we define an isomorphic framework to describe and model human
systems integration dedicated to human in-the-loop system engineering.We
present an experimental approach of safe design of assistance wearable virtual
environment of gesture based in laboratory and parabolic flights. On the
results, we discuss the relevance of our conceptual approach and the
applications to future assistance of gesture wearable systems engineering
Embodiment, sound and visualization : a multimodal perspective in music education
Recently, many studies have emphasized the role of body movements in
processing, sharing and giving meaning to music. At the same time, neuroscience
studies, suggest that different parts of the brain are integrated and activated by the same
stimuli: sounds, for example, can be perceived by touch and can evoke imagery, energy,
fluency and periodicity. This interaction of auditory, visual and motor senses can be
found in the verbal descriptions of music and among children during their spontaneous
games. The question to be asked is, if a more multisensory and embodied approach
could redefine some of our assumptions regarding musical education. Recent research
on embodiment and multimodal perception in instrumental teaching could suggest new
directions in musical education. Can we consider the integration between the activities
of body movement, listening, metaphor visualization, and singing, as more effective
than a disembodied and fragmented approach for the process of musical understanding
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