The objective of the project is to examine recent progress in two major areas of research – computer science and neuroscience, and their related fields – and to understand whether progress in understanding cognition in living systems has new insights to offer those researching the construction of artificial cognitive systems.

OBJECTIVE Individuals with chronic pain frequently display comorbid depression, but the impact of symptoms of depression on pain processing is not completely understood. This study evaluated the effect of symptoms of depression and/or clinically diagnosed major depressive disorder (MDD) on pain processing in patients with fibromyalgia (FM). METHODS Results of quantitative sensory testing and ...

Purpose This paper aims to investigate if a sensory intervention of moderate pressure touch children with processing disorder (SPD) affects sleep behaviours and behaviours. Design/methodology/approach A total 50 children, aged 5–11 years both SPD difficulties in Israel, were randomly divided into an experimental control group, nonblinded. Participants the group received three weeks nightly mass...

Progress in our understanding of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has recently been sought by characterising how systematic differences in canonical neural computations employed across the sensory cortex might contribute to clinical symptoms in diverse sensory, cognitive, and social domains. A key proposal is that ASD is characterised by reduced divisive normalisation of sensory responses. This p...