This article reports the structure of associations among 101 common verbs and body parts. The verbs are those typically learned by children learning English prior to 3 years of age. In a free association task, 50 adults were asked to provide the single body part that came to mind when they thought of each verb. Analyses reveal highly systematic and structured patterns of associations that are a...

The rich motor behavior of Octopus vulgaris is an outstanding biological example of motor control in a soft-bodied animal. The flexible hyper-redundant arms of the octopus endow it with high maneuverability but also place a great burden on its control system. The main difficulty in using the arms for precise goal-directed movements and coordinated locomotion is the problems of interfacing the i...

Abstract Humans are able to perform skilful movements by coordinating muscles throughout the body. It has been revealed that not only neural mechanisms but also direct and dynamic interactions between body parts contribute muscular coordination. Tensegrity, accurately biotensegrity, can be considered basic mechanism for interactions. Tensegrity structures composed of tensile compressive compone...

Automatic recognition and prediction of in-vehicle human activities has a significant impact on the next generation driver assistance intelligent autonomous vehicles. In this article, we present novel single image action algorithm inspired by perception that often focuses selectively parts images to acquire information at specific places which are distinct given task. Unlike existing approaches...

In-mold Assembly process at the mesoscale presents several manufacturing challenges. Results reported in this paper demonstrate the technical feasibility of creating rigid body mesoscale revolute joints using In-Mold Assembly process. The following new results are reported in this paper. First, we describe a mold design with varying cavity shape to perform In-Mold Assembly. This mold design use...

In this paper a method is proposed to recover and interpret the 3D body structures of a person from a single view, provided that (1) at least six feature points on the head and a set of body joints are available on the image plane, and (2) the geometry of head and lengths of body segments formed by joints are known. First of all, the feature points on the head in the head-centered coordinate sy...

Gender classification based on gait is a challenging problem because humans may walk in different directions at speeds and with varying patterns. The majority of investigations the literature relied gender-specific joints, whereas comparison lower-body joints received little attention. When considering it important to identify gender person his or her walking style using Kinect Sensor. In this ...

The aim of this work was to study the posturokinetic capacities and use of visual information by judoists according to their level of competition. Twenty male judoists aged between 16 and 19 took part. They were separated into two groups: those that competed at regional level and those that competed at national and international level. Static balance was measured on a force platform. No differe...