Background & aim: Decreased sleep quality is a common complaint during pregnancy. Relaxation is one of the non-pharmaceutical treatments for sleep disorders. Different techniques could have different impacts on various biological and mental stressors. Therefore, this study aimed to compare the effects of progressive muscle relaxation and guided imagery on the sleep quality of primigravida women...

INTRODUCTION Ten years after the publication of Elaborated Intrusion (EI) Theory, there is now substantial research into its key predictions. The distinction between intrusive thoughts, which are driven by automatic processes, and their elaboration, involving controlled processing, is well established. Desires for both addictive substances and other desired targets are typically marked by image...

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a crucial component of 6-DoF localization, visual SLAM and structure-from-motion pipelines, tasked to generate an initial list place match hypotheses by matching global descriptors. However, commonly-used CNN-based methods either process multiple image resolutions after training or use single resolution limit multi-scale feature extraction the last convolutiona...

This study investigates how the avatar embodiment in virtual reality (VR) influences training for operation of motor imagery brain–computer interfaces (MI-BCIs). In previous studies, we demonstrated possibility to induce a BCI-based VR (using mental commands instead motion tracking) purposes facilitation. paper examines relationship between BCI performance and subjective levels embodiment, as w...