How activity of sensory neurons leads to perceptual decisions remains a challenge to understand. Correlations between choices and single neuron firing rates have been found early in vestibular processing, in the brainstem and cerebellum. To investigate the origins of choice-related activity, we have recorded from otolith afferent fibers while animals performed a fine heading discrimination task...

(g) pumps incorporating measuring devices, of heading 8413; weight–operated counting and checking machinery, or separately presented weights for balances (heading 8423); lifting or handling machinery (headings 8425 to 8428); paper or paperboard cutting machines of all kinds (heading 8441); fittings for adjusting work or tools on machine tools, of heading 8466, including fittings with optical de...

To identify quantitative trait loci (QTLs) controlling heading date and plant height, ninety nine F13 recombinant inbred lines (RILs) derived from barley cultivars Azumamugi × Kanto Nakate Gold cross were evaluated. The field trails were conducted at randomized complete block design with two and three replications in 2004 and 2005, respectively. Significant differences and transgrassive segrega...

The presence of a columnar or clustered organization for some property often denotes that this property is important to the local information processing in a cortical area. To determine whether self-motion is systematically organized in the ventral intraparietal area (VIP), we made long electrode penetrations, recording both multi-unit and single-unit tuning for horizontally varying heading sti...

Aging and Alzheimer's disease (AD) are associated with declines in the visual perception of self-movement that undermine navigation and independent living. We studied 214 subjects' heading direction and speed discrimination using the radial patterns of visual motion in optic flow. Young (YA), middle-aged (MA), and older normal (ON) subjects, and AD patients viewed optic flow in which we manipul...

We propose to use a robust method for appearance-based matching that has been shown to be insensitive to illumination and occlusion for robot self-localization. The drawback of this method is that it relies on panoramic images taken in one certain orientation, restricts the heading of the robot throughout navigation or needs additional sensors for orientation, e.g. a compass. To avoid these pro...

In this paper, we propose a method of personal positioning that combines images taken from a wearable camera with data from self-contained sensors attached to the user through a Kalman filter as a data integration mechanism. The proposed method estimates the user’s position and direction by image registration between the input images from the camera and a set of images captured at known positio...

This work presents a solution for self-positioning (i.e. heading angle and offset) a vision system with respect to a line and the calibration of the single vision system. The tools Hough transform and camera model are used to obtain the position of the camera. The calibration procedure proposed calculates several parameters, which are used in the positioned process of the vision system. Experim...

Heading date is an important event to ensure successful seed production. Although foxtail millet (Setaria italica (L.) P.Beauv.) is an important foodstuff in semiarid regions around the world, the genetic basis determining heading date is unclear. To identify genomic regions regulating days to heading (DTH), we conducted a QTL-seq analysis based on combining whole-genome re-sequencing and bulke...