• 인지과학
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.1-14
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• 2004

본 연구에서는 순차적으로 자극이 제시되는 시각 구별 과제에서 개인차가 기술의 습득과 전이에 어떻게 영향을 미치는지 알아보았다. 여기서는 개인 차이를 세 가지 측면에서 측정하였는데 인지 양식의 차이, 작업 기억 용량의 수준, 그리고 의사 결정 방식의 차이를 가지고 개인 차이를 분류하였다. 시각 구별 과제에서는 크게 훈련 과정과 전이 과정으로 나누어 훈련 과정의 난이도가 전이 과정에서 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 알아보았는데, 특히 훈련 난이도는 인지 양식과 그리고 작업 기억 용량과의 상호 작용을 통하여 전이 과제에서의 정확도에 영향을 미친 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구에서 얻어진 결과는 시각 구별과 관련한 인터페이스를 디자인하는데 있어서 개인차를 고려하는 것이 필요함을 시사하였다.

• 한국전문물리치료학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.18-27
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of dual-task training (cognitive and exercise tasks) on the balance and gait performance of chronic stroke patients. Eighteen subjects with chronic stroke were divided equally into two groups, an experimental group and a control group. Subjects in both groups participated in an exercise program, performing the same tasks, for 45 minutes per day, three times per week for four weeks. The experimental group also performed additional cognitive task. The experimental group showed a more significant improvement than the control group on the Berg Balance Scale, the Timed Up and Go Test, the Korean Activities-Specific Balance Confidence Scale, and the Functional Gait Assessment (p<.05). The cognitive task error rates in the final week were significantly less than in the first week in the experimental group (p<.01). These results suggest that dual-task training for chronic stroke patients is effective in improving balance, gait, and cognitive abilities.

• 전기학회논문지P
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• 제63권1호
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• pp.34-39
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• 2014

In cognitive radios, secondary users can use the spectrum exclusively allocated to a primary wireless system if the secondary users detect the spectrum in idle states. Because the secondary users can utilize the idle state of the spectrum, the utilization rate of the spectrum can be improved. The idle states can be detected by using secondary users' sensing schemes. However, the wireless channel environment where secondary users perform the spectrum sensing is not very friendly to secondary users because the signal-to-noise ratio of the received primary signal is very low. Hence, cooperative sensing scheme where more than one secondary user take part in the spectrum sensing is generally used in cognitive radios. In this paper, we investigate the cooperative sensing performance for machine-to-machine communication devices operated by batteries with limited energy. In general, the energy consumed for the spectrum sensing increases as the length of the sensing period and the number of cooperative sensing nodes. Accordingly, even though the total amount of the consumed energy is the same, an energy allocation methodology how to distribute the energy to the sensing period and sensing nodes can achieve the optimum sensing performance, which is numerically analyzed.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.63-69
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• 2016

The aims of the present study are two-fold: 1) to explore differences on speech perception between younger and older adults according to noise conditions; and 2) to investigate which cognitive domains are correlated with speech perception. Data were acquired from 15 younger adults and 15 older adults. Sentence recognition test was conducted in four noise conditions(i.e., in-quiet, +5 dB SNR, 0 dB SNR, -5 dB SNR). All participants completed auditory and cognitive assessment. Upon controlling for hearing thresholds, the older group revealed significantly poorer performance compared to the younger adults only under the high noise condition at -5 dB SNR. For older group, performance on Seoul Verbal Learning Test(immediate recall) was significantly correlated with speech perception performance, upon controlling for hearing thresholds. In older adults, working memory and verbal short-term memory are the best predictors of speech-in-noise perception. The current study suggests that consideration of cognitive function for older adults in speech perception assessment is necessary due to its adverse effect on speech perception under background noise.

• 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.27-31
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• 2010

급증하는 주파수 수요를 해결하기 위해 최근 FCC(Federal Communications Commission)에서는 스펙트럼 사용 효율을 높이기 위해 주파수를 공유하는 CR(Cognitive radio)를 적용하기로 하였다. 그리고 이러한 CR 시스템을 LTE 시스템에 적용하고자 CR 기술 중 스펙트럼 센싱 이론을 LTE 환경에 적용을 시켜 실험을 하여 성능분석을 하였다. 본 실험에 있어서 LTE 하향링크 OFDMA (Orthogonal frequency division multiple access) 신호를 센싱했고, 채널은 가우시안 채널로 가정하여 실험을 하였다. 또한 실험에 필요로 한 임계값(threshold)은 5%, 10%로 달리 적용하여 성능분석을 하였다. 그리고 추후 LTE 시스템에 CR 시스템 적용을 위한 향후 연구 방향에 대하여 논의를 하였다.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.20-28
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• 2019

This study was conducted with a non-equivalent control group experimental design to investigate the effects of a video-based infection control program through the application of the social cognitive theory on caregivers. Forty-six caregivers were recruited, with 23 pairs being randomly assigned to the control and experimental groups each. While the experimental group took part in the video-based education, the control group was involved in typical lectures. For two weeks, both groups were educated on the principles of infection control, medical and external handwashing, standard precautions, and quarantine. Their knowledge, performance, and self-efficacy were evaluated before and after the program. There was a significant increase in knowledge (p<.001 and p=.005) and infection control performance (p<.001) in the experimental and control groups. Similarly, self-efficacy, self-regulatory efficacy, task-difficulty preference and confidence significantly increased in the experimental group (p<.001). In the control group, only task-difficulty preference significantly increased (p=.005). Consequently, the online video-based infection control education program applying the social cognitive theory proved effective in improving the caregivers' knowledge and performance in infection control, and their self-efficacy. We suggest the use of this program in effective infection control education for caregivers in the future.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제54권6호
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• pp.484-488
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• 2013

Objective : To examine the synergistic effects of both computer-assisted cognitive rehabilitation (CACR) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on cognitive function in patients with stroke. Methods : The current double-blind, sham-controlled study enrolled a total of 11 patients who were newly diagnosed with stroke. The patients of the tDCS group (n=6) completed sessions of the Korean computer-assisted cognitive rehabilitation program five times a week for 30 minutes a session during a mean period of 18.5 days concomitantly with the anodal tDCS over the bilateral prefrontal cortex combined with the CACR. The patients of the control group (n=5) also completed sessions of the sham stimulation during a mean period of 17.8 days. Anodal tDCS over bilateral prefrontal cortex (F3 and F4 in 10-20 EEG system) was delivered for 30 minutes at an intensity of 2 mA. Cathode electrodes were applied to the non-dominant arm. All the patients were evaluated using the Seoul Computerized Neuropsychological Test (SCNT) and the Korean Mini-Mental State Examination. Results : Mann-Whitney U test revealed a significant difference between the two groups. The patients of the tDCS group achieved a significant improvement in the post/pre ratio of auditory continuous performance test and visual continuous performance test on the SCNT items. Conclusion : Our results indicate that the concomitant use of the tDCS with CACR to the prefrontal cortex may provide additional beneficial effects in improving the cognitive dysfunction for patients with stroke.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권7호
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• pp.1533-1546
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• 2013

Wireless multicast is considered as an effective transmission mode for the future mobile social contact services supported by Long Time Evolution (LTE). Though wireless multicast has an excellent resource efficiency, its performance suffers deterioration from the channel condition and wireless resource availability. Cognitive Radio (CR) and Device to Device (D2D) are two solutions to provide potential resource. However, resource allocation for cognitive wireless multicast based on D2D is still a great challenge for LTE social networks. In this paper, a joint sub-carriers and power allocation model based on D2D for general cognitive radio multicast (CR-D2D-MC) is proposed for Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) LTE systems. By opportunistically accessing the licensed spectrum, the maximized capacity for multiple cognitive multicast groups is achieved with the condition of the general scenario of imperfect spectrum sensing, the constrains of interference to primary users (PUs) and an upper-bound power of secondary users (SUs) acting as multicast source nodes. Furthermore, the fairness for multicast groups or unicast terminals is guaranteed by setting a lower-bound number of the subcarriers allocated to cognitive multicast groups. Lagrange duality algorithm is adopted to obtain the optimal solution to the proposed CR-D2D-MC model. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm improves the performance of cognitive multicast groups and achieves a good balance between capacity and fairness.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권9A호
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• pp.697-703
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• 2009

인지무선 통신장치(cognitive radio)는 일반적으로 일차 사용자(primary user)와의 간섭을 피하기 위해 어떠한 일차 사용자도 점유하고 있지 않은 주파수 자원을 활용한다. 그러나 비어있는 주파수 자원을 발견할 수 없을 경우, 인지무선 통신장치는 언더레이(underlay) 형태로 일차 사용자들과 주파수를 공유할 수 있으며, 이 때 스스로의 통신이 일차 사용자들에게 간섭을 미치지 않도록 전송 전력을 조절해야 한다. 본 논문은 셀룰라 네트워크의 상향링크 주파수 자원을 사용하는 언더레이 주파수 공유 방법을 제안한다. 셀룰라 네트워크의 범위 안에 존재하는 한쌍의 인지무선 통신장치들이 단방향 점대점(point-to-point) 통신 링크를 생성할 때 사용할 수 있는 전송 전력의 재한을 계산하고, 계산된 전송 전력을 적용할 수 있는 실용적인 상향 링크 공유 방안을 제시한다. 또한 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안된 상향 링크 공유 방안이 하향 링크 주파수 자원을 공유하는 것에 비해 인지무선 통신장치의 부담(overhead)을 줄일 뿐만 아니라 점대점 통신 링크의 수율(throughput) 성능을 향상시킬 수 있음을 보인다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제37권6B호
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• pp.483-488
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• 2012

데이터 트래픽의 증가와 더불어 인지 기반 중첩 융합 네트워크 환경 하에서의 서비스 성능이 중요한 이슈로 떠오르고 있다. 이에 따라 다양한 이종 네트워크(HetNet)가 결합된 환경 하에서 주변상황의 인지 기능을 활용하는 이중 가상 셀의 구성과 특징에 대해 살펴보고 자원의 효과적 활용에 적합한 개별 이종 네트워크의 특성분석과 특성을 반영하는 시스템측면의 최적화를 고려하여 성능측면의 분석을 다루고자 한다. 이를 위해 가상 이중 셀 시스템의 구성과 운영이 필수적으로 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 기지국의 소형화와 지능화가 진행됨에 따른 활용도 측면의 성능을 분석하였다. 고려하는 시스템은 유용한 가상의 신호를 찾을 수 있는 능력을 활용하여 가상의 이중 셀을 구성하고 고속이동에 따른 무선링크에서의 성능열하를 방지하고 고속의 데이터 전송을 위한 시-공간 트렐리스 코드를 적용한 시스템의 성능을 분석하여 그 유용성에 대해서 시뮬레이션을 통하여 정량적인 분석결과를 얻었다. 이를 바탕으로 다양한 파라메터가 주어진 환경 하에서 전체 시스템에 어떤 영향를 미치는지를 해석하고 고려하는 시스템의 특징을 고찰하였다.