A common finding across many reaction time tasks is that people slow down on trials following errors, a phenomenon known as post-error slowing. In the present study, we tested a novel hypothesis about the neural mechanism underlying post-error slowing. Recent research has shown that when task-relevant stimuli occur in a rhythmic stream, neuronal oscillations entrain to the task structure, there...

Beauvois, Melanie C., Charafa Merezak, Jean-Christophe Jonas, Magalie A. Ravier, Jean-Claude Henquin, and Patrick Gilon. Glucose-induced mixed [Ca ]c oscillations in mouse -cells are controlled by the membrane potential and SERCA3 Ca -ATPase of the endoplasmic reticulum. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 290: C1503–C1511, 2006. First published December 28, 2005; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00400.2005.—Stimulat...

Internal mixing within a sessile liquid drop can be significantly enhanced by means of so-called electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD), using an alternating electric potential. This is done experimentally by monitoring the coalescence and mixing of dyed liquid drops that are brought together by electrowetting actuation. The process is monitored using high-speed imaging and the extent of mixing wi...

Many immersed boundary methods solve for surface stresses that impose the velocity boundary conditions on an immersed body. These surface stresses may contain spurious oscillations that make them ill-suited for representing the physical surface stresses on the body. Moreover, these inaccurate stresses often lead to unphysical oscillations in the history of integrated surface forces such as the ...

in this paper the density and temperature dependencies of surface tension are investigated. using the lennard-jones (12,6), as an effective pair interaction potential, a linear expression is derived for isotherms of g /r2  versus r2 for some normal and chlorofluorocarbons (cfcs) fluids, where  is surface tension and r = 1/v is molar density. the linearity behavior of the derived equation is wel...

in this study, a method for determining the location and extent of myocardial infarction using body surface potential map data that is obtained from physionet challenge 2007 database has been suggested. this data is related to four patients with myocardial infarction that we used from two patients as training set to determine rules, and from two other patients for testing set and the conclusion...

A semiclassical model is developed to describe plasmon-electron coupling and electronic damping of surface plasmons. It is compared with the ab initio linear response calculations for metallic thin films in the jellium approximation and for a realistic crystalline Mg(0001) surface. The semiclassical model is able to reproduce the quantum oscillations of plasmon linewidth, which was obtained in ...

29 30 Previous studies in waking animals have shown that the frequency structure of olfactory bulb 31 (OB) local field potential oscillations is very similar across the OB, but large low-impedance 32 surface electrodes may have favored highly coherent events, averaging out local 33 inhomogeneities. We tested the hypothesis that OB oscillations represent spatially homogeneous 34 phenomena at all...

PURPOSE Previous studies of optical interference from the whole thickness of the precorneal tear film showed much lower contrast than from the pre-contact lens tear film. It is hypothesized that the recorded low contrast is related to roughness of the corneal surface compared with the smooth contact lens surface. This hypothesis is tested, and characteristics of this roughness are studied. ME...

Photochemical reactions may be classified as adiabatic or as diabatic whether the chemical change occurs on the same potential energy surface or not. In the adiabatic cases deexcitation occurs either in the reactant (I) or in the product (II) while in the diabatic case it occurs in between them (III). The potential energy surfaces of polyatomic systems are discussed in relation to photochemistr...