Methods and apparatus for assessing and improving processing of temporal information in human

US6422869B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• The Regents of the University of California · US

Inventors

• Srikantan Nagarajan · San Francisco, US
• Michael M. Merzenich · San Francisco, US
• David Blake · San Francisco, US
• Beverly A. Wright · Evanston, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 14, 1997
• Grant date: Jul 23, 2002
• Expiry date: Nov 14, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G09B19/00
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A computer-implemented method for improving temporal processing of a first type of information in human is disclosed. The first type of information pertains to one of touch, auditory, and visual. The computer-implemented method includes providing a computer, and providing a stimuli generator coupled to the computer. The stimuli generator providing, responsive to control signals from the computer, first stimuli, the first stimuli being a different one of the touch, auditory, and visual. The computer-implemented method further includes applying the first stimuli from the stimuli generator to the human. The first stimuli are produced around a plurality of time scales to facilitate improvement in the temporal processing of the first type of information around the plurality of time scales.