This article provides an introduction and overview of sensory integration theory as it is used in occupational therapy practice for children with developmental disabilities. This review of the theoretical tenets of the theory, its historical foundations, and early research provides the reader with a basis for exploring current uses and applications. The key principles of the sensory integrative...

Even without sensory input, an animal can estimate how far it hasmovedby integrating its velocity, a process called path integration. The entorhinal cortex (EC) and hippocampus seem to be involved in path integration, and in an animal’s perceived location in space. However, path integration is highly susceptible to accumulating errors. A real animal avoids this problem by incorporating sensory ...

The paper describes a new approach for the in-process integration of sensors into lightweight metal components made of aluminium and fabricated by casting. It examines the suitability of DiaForce thin film sensors based on piezoresistive hydrocarbon layers (DLC) for integration in molten aluminium. In contrast to previous research, a technology is introduced which will allow real-time measureme...

The results of studies examining the effectiveness of sensory integration therapy were reviewed, using recently developed quantitative methods that treat the literature review process as a unique type of research. Forty-nine studies were located initially. Eight of these studies met the following criteria: (a) they investigated the effect of sensory integration therapy; (b) they included depend...

This paper applies dynamic neural fields model [1,23,7] to multimodal interaction of sensory cues obtained from a mobile robot, and shows the impact of different temporal aspects of the integration to the precision of movements. We speculate that temporally uncoordinated sensory integration might be a reason for the poor motor skills of patients with autism. Accordingly, we make a simulation of...

The integration of partially redundant information from multiple sensors is a standard computational problem for agents interacting with the world. In man and other primates, integration has been shown psychophysically to be nearly optimal in the sense of error minimization. An influential generalization of this notion of optimality is that populations of multisensory neurons should retain all ...

The article describes the problem of "sensory integration", need to study it, peculiarities its manifestation. Attempts are being made draw professionals' attention a that is often encountered today but not evaluated or corrected accordingly in either children adults. especially acute among schoolchildren. Our observations have shown this may be at root negative educational motivation, failure ...

For the sake of concreteness, let’s think about the problem of estimating visual depth. A commonly assumed framework for how an observer might go about judging the depth of a visual object defined by multiple visual cues is the following two-stage process. First, depth estimates based on individual cues are derived. Next, a weighted combination of these estimates is calculated and used as the o...