Communications Biophysics

Contains reports on two research projects.National Science Foundation (Grant G-16526)National Institutes of Health (Grant MH-04737-03)National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Grant NsG-496

Síntesis del Panel sobre Educación de postgrado, educación continuada y educación a distancia

El Dr. Aníbal Franco, decano de la Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, UBA, se refirió a un proyecto de formación postgrado en ciencias veterinarias, en el cooperan las ocho facultades argentinas. El Dr. Alberto Dibbern explicó el sistema de educación postgrado a distancia, de la Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias de la UN La Plata, primer intento de facilitar a los miembros de una profesión dispersa el acceso a los adelantos en su profesión. La Dra.Lucrecia L. de Craig, Secretaria de Postgrado de la Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias de la Universidad de Buenos Aires expuso la filosofía y el estado actual de la formación para el Doctorado de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en la Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias que cuenta, actualmente, con 36 doctorados.Panel: Educación formal de postgrado, educación continuada y educación a distanciaAcademia Nacional de Agronomía y Veterinaria (ANAV

Síntesis del Panel sobre Educación de postgrado, educación continuada y educación a distancia

El Dr. Aníbal Franco, decano de la Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, UBA, se refirió a un proyecto de formación postgrado en ciencias veterinarias, en el cooperan las ocho facultades argentinas. El Dr. Alberto Dibbern explicó el sistema de educación postgrado a distancia, de la Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias de la UN La Plata, primer intento de facilitar a los miembros de una profesión dispersa el acceso a los adelantos en su profesión. La Dra.Lucrecia L. de Craig, Secretaria de Postgrado de la Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias de la Universidad de Buenos Aires expuso la filosofía y el estado actual de la formación para el Doctorado de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en la Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias que cuenta, actualmente, con 36 doctorados.Panel: Educación formal de postgrado, educación continuada y educación a distanciaAcademia Nacional de Agronomía y Veterinaria (ANAV

Sensory Communication

Contains list of research project split into seven sections, listing researchers and grants.National Science Foundation (Grant BNS 84-11392)National Institutes of Health (Grant 5 RO1 NS10916)National Institutes of Health (Grant 5 RO1 NS12846)National Institutes of Health (Grant 5 RO1 NS14902)National Science Foundation (Grant BNS 84-17817)National Institutes of Health (Grant 1 RO1 NS21322)National Institutes of Health (Grant 1 P01 NS23734)National Science Foundation (Grant DMC 83-32460

Communications Biophysics

Contains reports on six research projects.National Institutes of Health (Grant 2 P01 GM-14940-01)Joint Services Electronics Programs (U. S. Army, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Air Force) under Contract DA 28-043-AMC-02536(E)National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Grant NsG-496)National Institutes of Health (Grant 2 ROl NB-05462-03

Communications Biophysics

Contains research objectives, summary of six research projects and reports on three research projects.National Institutes of Health (Grant 2 P01 MH-04737-06)Joint Services Electronics Programs (U. S. Army, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Air Force) under Contract DA 36-039-AMC-03200(E)National Science Foundation (Grant GK-835)National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Grant NsG-496)National Institutes of Health (Grant 5 ROI NB-05462-03

Supporting dynamic change detection: using the right tool for the task

Detecting task-relevant changes in a visual scene is necessary for successfully monitoring and managing dynamic command and control situations. Change blindness—the failure to notice visual changes—is an important source of human error. Change History EXplicit (CHEX) is a tool developed to aid change detection and maintain situation awareness; and in the current study we test the generality of its ability to facilitate the detection of changes when this subtask is embedded within a broader dynamic decision-making task. A multitasking air-warfare simulation required participants to perform radar-based subtasks, for which change detection was a necessary aspect of the higher-order goal of protecting one’s own ship. In this task, however, CHEX rendered the operator even more vulnerable to attentional failures in change detection and increased perceived workload. Such support was only effective when participants performed a change detection task without concurrent subtasks. Results are interpreted in terms of the NSEEV model of attention behavior (Steelman, McCarley, & Wickens, Hum. Factors 53:142–153, 2011; J. Exp. Psychol. Appl. 19:403–419, 2013), and suggest that decision aids for use in multitasking contexts must be designed to fit within the available workload capacity of the user so that they may truly augment cognition

From presence to consciousness through virtual reality

Immersive virtual environments can break the deep, everyday connection between where our senses tell us we are and where we are actually located and whom we are with. The concept of 'presence' refers to the phenomenon of behaving and feeling as if we are in the virtual world created by computer displays. In this article, we argue that presence is worthy of study by neuroscientists, and that it might aid the study of perception and consciousness