Computer analysis was used for the detection of rhythmic components and the estimation of period length in leaf movement records. The results of this study indicated that spectral analysis can be profitably used to determine rhythmic components in leaf movements.In Pinto bean plants (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) grown for 28 days under continuous light of 750 ft-c and at a constant temperature of 28 ...

Parkinson's disease (PD) and basal ganglia dysfunction impair movement timing, which leads to gait instability and falls. Parkinsonian gait consists of random, disconnected stride times--rather than the 1/f structure observed in healthy gait--and this randomness of stride times (low fractal scaling) predicts falling. Walking with fixed-tempo Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation (RAS) can improve many ...

background: anxiety among patients after surgery can affect their physiological and psychological well-being. the aim of this study was to investigate and compare the effects of benson’s relaxation and rhythmic breathing techniques on postoperative anxiety in candidates for the mastectomy surgery. methods: this randomized controlled clinical trial study was conducted with ninety patients in 201...

The present study explored whether semantic and motor systems are functionally interwoven via the use of a dual-task paradigm. According to embodied language accounts that propose an automatic and necessary involvement of the motor system in conceptual processing, concurrent processing of hand-related information should interfere more with hand movements than processing of unrelated body-part (...

Research spanning 100 years has revealed that learning a novel perception-action task is remarkably task-specific. With only few exceptions, transfer typically very small, even with seemingly small changes to the task. This fact remained surprising given previous attempts formalise notion of what is, which have been dominated by common-sense divisions tasks into parts. article lays out an ecolo...