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Creating generative data-driven aesthetics based on brain waves
Azevedo, Bruno; Silva, Hélder David Malheiro; Lapenta, Olivia Morgan; Partesotti, HelenaContemplative environments can significantly impact our mental health, and recent research highlights their importance for well-being. Guided by the principles and aesthetics of Zen Gardens and Zen Buddhism, the medium-term objective is to create an immersive, therapeutic environment with restorative qualities, utilizing a data-driven generative approach. This paper explores the initial phase of translating bra...
Regenerative futures through art, science, and technology collaborations
Azevedo, Bruno; Lapenta, Olivia Morgan; Partesotti, HelenaThe 13th EAI International Conference: ArtsIT (Arts and Information Technology, Inter- activity & Game Creation), which was hosted at New York University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, featured a seven-person panel session discussing topics associated with the title ‘RECIPROCITY: Regenerative Futures through Art, Science, and Technology Collaborations’. This text, aligned in title, attempts to succinctly int...
Visual noise mask for human point-light displays: A coding-free approach
Senra, Catarina Carvalho; Sampaio, Adriana; Lapenta, Olivia MorganHuman point-light displays consist of luminous dots representing human articulations, thus depicting actions without pictorial information. These stimuli are widely used in action recognition experiments. Because humans excel in decoding human motion, point-light displays (PLDs) are often masked with additional moving dots (noise masks), thereby challenging stimulus recognition. These noise masks are typically ...
Can vocal emotion processing be modulated by tDCS?
Lapenta, Olivia Morgan; Marinho, Marcelo P.; Lima, César F.; Conde, TatianaInferring and recognising emotions is fundamental for adaptive social functioning. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has shown promise in modulating emotional processing, particularly in the visual domain. However, its effects on auditory emotional processing remain underexplored. We aimed to address this gap by investigating tDCS effects over the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and the right super...
Influência do uso combinado de neurofeedback e meditação no tratamento de diver...
Aristizabal, Juan P.; Lapenta, Olivia Morgan; Cunha, L. S. M.; Dayrell, V. M.; Pedra A. C.; Souza, Wania CIntrodução: A meditação, prática ancestral relacionada à regulação fisiológica e cognitiva, tem sido investigada por seus efeitos neurofisiológicos. Técnicas como o Neurofeedback baseado em qEEG também buscam otimizar estados mentais. A combinação dessas abordagens oferece uma nova perspetiva sobre os processos neurobiológicos da meditação, embora ainda haja escassez de evidências científicas em ambientes contr...
Neuromodulação não-invasiva nos transtornos do desenvolvimento
Rego, Gabriel Gaudencio; Lira, Marília; Valasek, Claúdia; Lapenta, Olivia Morgan; Boggio, Paulo Sérgio[Excerto] A neuromodulação não-invasiva compreende uma variedade de técnicas que visam modular a atividade cerebral sem a necessidade de intervenções cirúrgicas ou intrusivas, utilizando fontes externas de energia, tais como energia elétrica, magnética ou mecânica (ultrassom), as quais têm a capacidade de influenciar tanto processos neurais correntes como estimular a plasticidade cerebral (Mosilhy et al., 2022).
Neurofeedback beta down-training in women with high state-trait anxiety: A pilo...
Aristizabal, Juan Pablo; Souza, Wania Cristina; Lapenta, Olivia Morgan; Pereira Junior, Antonio; Gomes, Bruno Duarte; Goulart, Paulo Roney KilppIntroduction: According to the World Health Organization (WHO), anxiety and depression rank as the most prevalent mental disorders worldwide. WHO's 2015 estimate was that around 3.6% of the global population were affected by some form of anxiety disorder. Moreover, females tend to be more susceptible to anxiety disorders compared to males. Considering the high prevalence of anxiety disorders, various strategies...
Transcranial electrical stimulation for procedural learning and rehabilitation
Lapenta, Olivia Morgan; Rêgo, Gabriel Gaudencio; Boggio, Paulo SérgioProcedural learning is the acquisition of motor and non-motor skills through a gradual process that increases with practice. Impairments in procedural learning have been consistently demonstrated in neurodevelopmental, neurodegenerative, and neuropsychiatric disorders. Considering that noninvasive brain stimulation modulates brain activity and boosts neuroplastic mechanisms, we reviewed the effects of coupling ...
Spatial and temporal (non)binding of audiovisual rhythms in sensorimotor synchr...
Lapenta, Olivia Morgan; Keller, Peter E.; Nozaradan, Sylvie; Varlet, ManuelHuman movement synchronisation with moving objects strongly relies on visual input. However, auditory information also plays an important role, since real environments are intrinsically multimodal. We used electroencephalography (EEG) frequency tagging to investigate the selective neural processing and integration of visual and auditory information during motor tracking and tested the effects of spatial and tem...
Lateralised dynamic modulations of corticomuscular coherence associated with bi...
Lapenta, Olivia Morgan; Keller, Peter E.; Nozaradan, Sylvie; Varlet, ManuelHuman movements are spontaneously attracted to auditory rhythms, triggering an automatic activation of the motor system, a central phenomenon to music perception and production. Cortico- muscular coherence (CMC) in the theta, alpha, beta and gamma frequencies has been used as an index of the synchronisation between cortical motor regions and the muscles. Here we investigated how learning to produce a bimanual r...