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The Effect of Noise and Display Orientation on Cognitive Performance

  • Choi, Seong-Hwan
    • Journal of the military operations research society of Korea
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.51-59
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    • 1984
  • Military personnel encounter a variety of noise environments. During exercises, high intensity noise levels are often encountered. Twenty-four subjects were required to respond to symbols presented under two levels of task difficulty, two levels of presentation rate, two levels of display orientation, and three levels of noise intensity. The purpose of the experiment was to determine whether noise intensity and display orientation had any effect on a short-term memory task. Results showed that continuous white noise at intensity levels of 30, 85, and 105 db had no effect on the shortterm memory task. Presentation rate and task difficulty demonstrated a significant relationship with task performance as did their two-way interaction. This two-way interaction between presentation rate and task difficulty exhibited a different pattern for the two levels of display orientation.

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An experimental study of driental medicine on cure for dementia : the effect of Jowiseungcheongtang and Hyungbangjihwangtang on cure for aged rats (한약물의 치매치료에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Park Soon-Kwen;Lee Hong-Jae;Kim Hyun-Taek;Whang Wei-Wan
    • Journal of Oriental Neuropsychiatry
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.19-35
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    • 1998
  • Some oriental medicine turned out to have a significant clinical effect on the cure for dementia. Therefore, thorough scientific tests for physiological effect of oriental medicne are needed. This study is aimed at doing experimental studies on the effects of two medicines, Jowiseungcheongtang and hyungbangjihwangtang, on the cure for dementia.For the demonstration of the effect of the two medicines on aged rats, we perfomed a radial arm medicines on aged rats, water maze task, known for their proper learning paradigm for behavior.Previous studies on aging and dementia show that aged rats displayed significant impariments in the learning of the radial arm maze task compared with younger rats. As in experiment 1, we found that the learning of the radial arm maze task compared with younger rats. As in experiment 1, we found that the learning deficits aged rats exhibit in radial arm maze task were improved with the application of each medicine. The resutls suggest that these two medicine can be effective to patients whose working or shortterm memory is impaired. In experiment 2 we studied the effect of the two medicines on the deficit of the aged rats with the Morris water maze task known for measuring long-tern memory. We did not find significant results between the performance of the ages rats and the younger ones. Considered the different results previous studies have reported, more thorough studies are needed to investigate the effect of the medicines on long-term memory.In conclusion, the results we found in experiment 1 and 2 suggest that Jowisengcheongtang and hyungbangjihwangtang can have useful effects for the cure of age-related memory (especially for short-term memory)deficits. Recent interests in dementia urges researchers concerned to explore the effect of oriental medicine on the disease. As there have been relatively few behavioral or scientific studies on dementia using oriental medicine to date, further studies are expected are expected to continue to elucidate 'what the wisdom of the oriental medicine tells about dementia'.

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The Hangeul image's recognition and restoration based on Neural Network and Memory Theory (신경회로망과 기억이론에 기반한 한글영상 인식과 복원)

  • Jang, Jae-Hyuk;Park, Joong-Yang;Park, Jae-Heung
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.10 no.4 s.36
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    • pp.17-27
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    • 2005
  • In this study, it proposes the neural network system for character recognition and restoration. Proposes system composed by recognition part and restoration part. In the recognition part. it proposes model of effective pattern recognition to improve ART Neural Network's performance by restricting the unnecessary top-down frame generation and transition. Also the location feature extraction algorithm which applies with Hangeul's structural feature can apply the recognition. In the restoration part, it composes model of inputted image's restoration by Hopfield neural network. We make part experiments to check system's performance, respectively. As a result of experiment, we see improve of recognition rate and possibility of restoration.

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