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Author (aut): Taylor, Audrey K., Author (aut): Perez, Diane S., Author (aut): Zhang, Xin, Author (aut): Pilapil, Brandy K., Author (aut): Engelhard, Mark H., Author (aut): Gates, Byron D., Author (aut): Rider, David A.
Date created: 2017-09-27
Systematic review of the literature on pre-sleep mentation as it relates sleep onset and insomnolence.accepted for publication. Proofs available. Revisions to proofs sent to journal. Final publication forthcoming.
Author (aut): Lemyre, A., Author (aut): Belzile, F., Author (aut): Landry, F, Author (aut): Bastien, Célyne H., Author (aut): Beaudoin, Luc P.
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Author (aut): Zhang, Cheng, Author (aut): Zhou, James H.-W., Author (aut): Sameoto, Dan, Author (aut): Zhang, Xin, Author (aut): Li, Yasong, Author (aut): Ng, Him Wai, Author (aut): Menon, Carlo, Author (aut): Gates, Byron D.
Date created: 2012-08-10
The full text of this paper will be available in Mar 2022 due to the embargo policies of Journal of Hazardous Materials. Contact summit@sfu.ca to enquire if the full text of the accepted manuscript can be made available to you.
Author (aut): Belhaj Abdallah, Bouchra, Author (aut): Zhang, Xin, Author (aut): Andreu, Irene, Author (aut): Gates, Byron D., Author (aut): El Mokni, Ridha, Author (aut): Rubino, Stefano, Author (aut): Landoulsi, Ahmed, Author (aut): Chatti, Abdelwaheb
Date created: 2019-11-08
Stroke is one of the leading causes of permanent disability in adults. The literature suggests that rehabilitation is key to early motor recovery. However, conventional therapy is labor and cost intensive. Robotic and functional electrical stimulation (FES) devices can provide a high dose of repetitions and as such may provide an alternative, or an adjunct, to conventional rehabilitation therapy. Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) could augment neuroplasticity by introducing mental training. However, mental training alone is not enough; but combining mental with physical training could boost outcomes. In the current case study, a portable rehabilitative platform and goal-oriented supporting training protocols were introduced and tested with a chronic stroke participant. A novel training method was introduced with the proposed rehabilitative platform. A 37-year old individual with chronic stroke participated in 6-weeks of training (18 sessions in total, 3 sessions a week, and 1 h per session). In this case study, we show that an individual with chronic stroke can tolerate a 6-week training bout with our system and protocol. The participant was actively engaged throughout the training. Changes in the Wolf Motor Function Test (WMFT) suggest that the training positively affected arm motor function (12% improvement in WMFT score).
Author (aut): Zhang, Xin, Author (aut): Elnady, Ahmed M., Author (aut): Randhawa, Bubblepreet K., Author (aut): Boyd, Lara A., Author (aut): Menon, Carlo
Date created: 2018-04-03
This describes a research project based on Beaudoin, L. P. Cognitive Productivity: Using Knowledge to Become Profoundly Effective. https://leanpub.com/cognitiveproductivity/
Author (aut): Beaudoin, Luc P., Author (aut): Gauthier, Geneviève, Author (aut): Winne, Philip H.
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Contains (a) a short introduction; (b) poster; (c) references.The original abstract peer-reviewed publication is:Beaudoin, L. P. (2015). Specification for a productive practice app to assess and improve psychological treatments for romantic grief and other tertiary emotions. Poster to be presented at ISRE 2015 in Geneva, July 2015 (International Society for Research on Emotions).
Author (aut): Beaudoin, Luc P.
Date created: 2015-06-29
The concepts presented in this paper are discussed in more detail in Cognitive Productivity: Using Knowledge to Become Profoundly Effective (Beaudoin, 2015).
Author (aut): Beaudoin, Luc P.
Date created: 2015-05-27
Supplementary materials will be made available.This paper has ben submitted to AISB-2017 (Bath, England) http://aisb2017.cs.bath.ac.uk/index.html
Author (aut): Beaudoin, Luc P., Author (aut): Hyniewska, Sylwia, Author (aut): Hudlicka, Eva
Date created: 2017-01-25
This is a test of super-somnolent mentation theoretical framework using the Serial Diverse Imagining technique. CogSci Apps Corp.'s SomnoTest, which is a research version of mySleepButton, was used in the serial diverse imagining group. Submitted to SLEEP 2016 Conference in Dec 2015. Accepted for publication.
Author (aut): Beaudoin, Luc P., Author (aut): Digdon, N., Author (aut): O’Neill, K., Author (aut): Racour, G.
Date created: 2016-03-17
This was a contribution to the Cognition and Affect project that led to the Ph.D. thesis of the first author (Luc P. Beaudoin). This paper was mostly written by the first author, although it is based on and develops ideas of the second author. The nursemaid scenario was first described by the second author (Sloman, 1986). The first author was in the process of implementing the model described in the paper.Thanks to Aluizio Arujo, Peter Greenfield, Inman Harvey, Tim Read, Edmund Shing, Sharon Wood, and Shiu Yuen for reading and commenting on drafts. The first author was supported by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United Kingdom, and FCAR of Quebec.
Author (aut): Beaudoin, Luc P., Author (aut): Sloman, Aaron
Date created: 1991-10-01
Author (aut): Zhang, Xin, Author (aut): Park, Hyeong-Ho, Author (aut): Choi, Yong-June, Author (aut): Park, Hyung-Ho , Author (aut): Hill, Ross
Date created: 2011
Errata are listed in the updated versions. Latest version is 1.4, on 2015-12-12.
Author (aut): Beaudoin, Luc P., Contributor (ctb): Luc P. Beaudoin
Date created: 2013-03-31
The full text of this paper will be available in July, 2021 due to the embargo policies of Advanced Optical Materials for works funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Contact summit@sfu.ca to enquire if the full text of the accepted manuscript can be made available to you.
Author (aut): Zhang, Xin, Author (aut): Ali, Rana Faryad , Author (aut): Boyer, John‐Christopher , Author (aut): Branda, Neil R., Author (aut): Gates, Byron D.
Date created: 2020-07-26
Electroencephalography (EEG) has recently been considered for use in rehabilitation of people with motor deficits. EEG data from the motor imagery of different body movements have been used, for instance, as an EEG-based control method to send commands to rehabilitation devices that assist people to perform a variety of different motor tasks. However, it is both time and effort consuming to go through data collection and model training for every rehabilitation task. In this paper, we investigate the possibility of using an EEG model from one type of motor imagery (e.g.: elbow extension and flexion) to classify EEG from other types of motor imagery activities (e.g.: open a drawer). In order to study the problem, we focused on the elbow joint. Specifically, nine kinesthetic motor imagery tasks involving the elbow were investigated in twelve healthy individuals who participated in the study. While results reported that models from goal-oriented motor imagery tasks had higher accuracy than models from the simple joint tasks in intra-task testing (e.g., model from elbow extension and flexion task was tested on EEG data collected from elbow extension and flexion task), models from simple joint tasks had higher accuracies than the others in inter-task testing (e.g., model from elbow extension and flexion task tested on EEG data collected from drawer opening task). Simple single joint motor imagery tasks could, therefore, be considered for training models to potentially reduce the number of repetitive data acquisitions and model training in rehabilitation applications.
Author (aut): Zhang, Xin, Author (aut): Yong, Xinyi, Author (aut): Menon, Carlo
Date created: 2017-11-29