3D food printing is an emerging technology to structure foods from digital designs. A number of inks are formulated 3D/4D print with customized appearance. This mini review focuses on the recent developments in personalized modified sensorial properties (e.g. texture and flavor). Varying sensory perceptions printed could lead eating behavior changes among consumers potentially achieve nutrition...

Handwriting originates from a particular copybook style such as Palmer or Zaner-Bloser that one learns in childhood. Since questioned document examination plays an important investigative and forensic role in many types of crime, it is important to develop a system that helps objectively identify a questioned document’s handwriting style. Here, we propose a computer vision system that can assis...

How do animals perceive their environment and make appropriate behavioral choices based on those perceptions? New data have uncovered a novel sensory pathway that promotes Drosophila male courtship behavior in response to food.

Many obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) patients experience sensory phenomena, such as bodily sensations and "just-right" perceptions accompanying compulsions. We studied tactile processing in OCD by psychophysical experiments targeting the somatosensory cortex. Thirty-two children and adolescents with OCD (8 tic-related, 19 with sensory phenomena (SP)) and their sex- and age-matched controls ...

Accurate vocal production relies on several factors including sensory feedback and the ability to predict future challenges to the control processes. Repetitive patterns of perturbations in sensory feedback by themselves elicit implicit expectations in the vocal control system regarding the timing, quality and direction of perturbations. In the present study, the predictability of voice pitch-s...

Studies show that patients with schizophrenia exhibit impaired responses to sensory stimuli, especially at the early stages of neural processing. In particular, patients' alpha-band (8-14 Hz) event-related desynchronization (ERD) and visual P1 event-related potential (ERP) component tend to be significantly reduced, with P1 ERP deficits greater for visual stimuli biased towards the magnocellula...

The neural basis of the internal models used in sensorimotor transformations is beginning to be uncovered. Sensorimotor learning involves the modification of such models. Different stages of sensory-motor processing have been explored with a continuum of experimental tasks, from learning arbitrary associations of sensory cues to movements, to adapting to altered kinematic and dynamic environmen...