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Hommel, Bernhard. "S-R Compatibility Effects without Response Uncertainty." Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A 49, no. 3 (August 1996): 546–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/713755643.
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Five experiments investigated whether cognitively based spatial S-R correspondence effects or “compatibility” effects can occur in simple reaction time (SRT) tasks and if so, which factors might be responsible for their occurrence and size. In Experiment 1, responses were cued before each trial, but made only after presentation of a Go signal. There were considerably faster responses with spatial correspondence of Go signal and response, demonstrating that response certainty does not prevent a compatibility effect. Experiment 2, a SRT task with “extra” trials requiring responses with the same or the opposite hand, indicated a major determinant of this effect to be the keeping of two task-relevant responses in a state of readiness. Experiment 3 provided preliminary evidence for “inertia” effects—that is, for stronger correspondence effects with frequent than with infrequent alternations between left-hand and right-hand blocks. Experiment 4 showed that correspondence effects can be obtained by using a within-hand response repertoire. Experiment 5, a replication of Experiment 3 with within-hand responses, found further evidence for inertia effects. For all experiments, reaction time distribution analyses were carried out to gain insight into the temporal dynamics of correspondence effects. Altogether the results strongly suggest that most if not all correspondence effects had a cognitive rather than an anatomical origin. This raises some doubts about conclusions from prior attempts to measure interhemispheric transmission costs by means of SRT tasks.
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Wühr, Peter, and Herbert Heuer. "The impact of response frequency on spatial stimulus–response correspondence effects." Acta Psychologica 162 (November 2015): 13–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2015.09.012.
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Azaad, Shaheed, and Simon M. Laham. "Sidestepping spatial confounds in object-based correspondence effects: The Bimanual Affordance Task (BMAT)." Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 72, no. 11 (May 31, 2019): 2605–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1747021819852216.
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Tucker and Ellis found that when participants made left/right button-presses to indicate whether objects were upright or inverted, responses were faster when the response hand aligned with the task-irrelevant handle orientation of the object. The effect of handle orientation on response times has been interpreted as evidence that individuals perceive grasp affordances when viewing briefly presented objects, which in turn activate grasp-related motor systems. Although the effect of handle alignment has since been replicated, there remains doubt regarding the extent to which the effect is indeed driven by affordance perception. Objects that feature in affordance-compatibility paradigms are asymmetrical and have laterally protruding handles (e.g., mugs) and thus confound spatial and affordance properties. Research has attempted to disentangle spatial compatibility and affordance effects with varying results. In this study, we present a novel paradigm with which to study affordance perception while sidestepping spatial confounds. We use the Bimanual Affordance Task (BMAT) to test whether object affordances in symmetrical objects facilitate response times. Participants ( N = 36) used one of three (left unimanual/right unimanual/bimanual) responses to indicate the colour of presented objects. Objects afforded either a unimanual (e.g., handbag) or a bimanual (e.g., laundry hamper) grasp. Responses were faster when the afforded grasp corresponded with the response type (unimanual vs. bimanual), suggesting that affordance effects exist independent of spatial compatibility.
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Lambert, Anthony, Matthew Roser, Ian Wells, and Caroline Heffer. "The spatial correspondence hypothesis and orienting in response to central and peripheral spatial cues." Visual Cognition 13, no. 1 (January 2006): 65–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13506280500264460.
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Bradley, A., B. C. Skottun, I. Ohzawa, G. Sclar, and R. D. Freeman. "Visual orientation and spatial frequency discrimination: a comparison of single neurons and behavior." Journal of Neurophysiology 57, no. 3 (March 1, 1987): 755–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.1987.57.3.755.
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Neurons in the visual cortex respond selectively to stimulus orientation and spatial frequency. Changes in response amplitudes of these neurons could be the neurophysiological basis of orientation and spatial frequency discrimination. We have estimated the minimum differences in stimulus orientation and spatial frequency that can produce reliable changes in the responses of individual neurons in cat visual cortex. We compare these values with orientation and spatial frequency discrimination thresholds determined behaviorally. Slopes of the tuning functions and response variability determine the minimum orientation and spatial frequency differences that can elicit a reliable response change. These minimum values were obtained from single cells using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis. The average minimum orientation and spatial frequency differences that could be signaled reliably by cells from our sample were 6.4 degrees (n = 22) and 21.3% (n = 18), respectively. These values are approximately 0.20 of the average full tuning width at one-half height of the cells. Although these average values are well above the behaviorally determined thresholds, the most selective cells signaled orientation and frequency differences of 1.84 degrees and 5.25%, respectively. These values are of the same order of magnitude as the behavioral thresholds. We show that, because of slow fluctuations in a cell's responsivity, ROC analysis overestimates response variability. We estimate that these slow response fluctuations elevated our estimates of single cell “thresholds” by, on average, 30%. Our data point to an approximate correspondence between orientation and spatial frequency discrimination “thresholds” determined behaviorally and those estimated from the most selective single cortical cells. Interpretation of this quantitative correspondence is considered in the discussion.
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Treccani, Barbara, Roberto Cubelli, Sergio Della Sala, and Carlo Umiltà. "Flanker and Simon effects interact at the response selection stage." Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 62, no. 9 (September 2009): 1784–804. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470210802557751.
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The present study aimed at investigating the processing stage underlying stimulus–stimulus (S–S) congruency effects by examining the relation of a particular type of congruency effect (i.e., the flanker effect) with a stimulus–response (S–R) spatial correspondence effect (i.e., the Simon effect). Experiment 1 used a unilateral flanker task in which the flanker also acted as a Simon-like accessory stimulus. Results showed a significant S–S Congruency × S–R Correspondence interaction: An advantage for flanker–response spatially corresponding trials was observed in target–flanker congruent conditions, whereas, in incongruent conditions, there was a noncorresponding trials’ advantage. The analysis of the temporal trend of the correspondence effects ruled out a temporal-overlap account for the observed interaction. Moreover, results of Experiment 2, in which the flanker did not belong to the target set, demonstrated that this interaction cannot be attributed to perceptual grouping of the target–flanker pairs and referential coding of the target with respect to the flanker in the congruent and incongruent conditions, respectively. Taken together, these findings are consistent with a response selection account of congruency effects: Both the position and the task-related attribute of the flanker would activate the associated responses. In noncorresponding-congruent trials and corresponding-incongruent trials, this would cause a conflict at the response selection stage.
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Styrkowiec, Piotr. "Space and Motion Stimulus-Response Correspondence (SRC) Effects in a Single Task." Experimental Psychology 63, no. 5 (September 2016): 297–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000335.
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Abstract. Previous research indicated that congruency between stimulus location and response position (spatial stimulus-response correspondence [SRC]) and stimulus motion and response movement congruency (motion SRC) are distinct SRC phenomena. This study further explored this issue and tested whether these two SRC effects are independent. This was conducted by investigating these two SRC effects in a single task. A stimulus with leftward or rightward motion was presented on the left or the right side of the screen and the participant had to move the joysticks held with the left and right hands leftward or rightward in response to the stimulus color. In this setting, the stimulus and response shared two types of correspondence: spatial and motion. The results demonstrated that two SRC effects occurred and interacted (interaction evident only in reaction times [RTs]). RT distribution analysis and accuracy delta plots for each SRC effect indicated that spatial and motion SRC are distinct phenomena based on different processes.
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Wühr, Peter, and Wilfried Kunde. "Precueing spatial S-R correspondence: Is there regulation of expected response conflict?" Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 34, no. 4 (2008): 872–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.34.4.872.
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Tanabe, Seiji, and Bruce G. Cumming. "Delayed suppression shapes disparity selective responses in monkey V1." Journal of Neurophysiology 111, no. 9 (May 1, 2014): 1759–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.00426.2013.
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The stereo correspondence problem poses a challenge to visual neurons because localized receptive fields potentially cause false responses. Neurons in the primary visual cortex (V1) partially resolve this problem by combining excitatory and suppressive responses to encode binocular disparity. We explored the time course of this combination in awake, monkey V1 neurons using subspace mapping of receptive fields. The stimulus was a binocular noise pattern constructed from discrete spatial frequency components. We forward correlated the firing of the V1 neuron with the occurrence of binocular presentations of each spatial frequency component. The forward correlation yielded a complete set of response time courses to every combination of spatial frequency and interocular phase difference. Some combinations produced suppressive responses. Typically, if an interocular phase difference for a given spatial frequency produced strong excitation, we saw suppression in response to the opposite interocular phase difference at lower spatial frequencies. The suppression was delayed relative to the excitation, with a median difference in latency of 7 ms. We found that the suppressive mechanism explains a well-known mismatch of monocular and binocular signals. The suppressive components increased power at low spatial frequencies in disparity tuning, whereas they reduced the monocular response to low spatial frequencies. This long-recognized mismatch of binocular and monocular signals reflects a suppressive mechanism that helps reduce the response to false matches.
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Bardi, Lara, Ryota Kanai, Daniela Mapelli, and Vincent Walsh. "TMS of the FEF Interferes with Spatial Conflict." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 24, no. 6 (June 2012): 1305–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00223.
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In the Simon task, a conflict arises because irrelevant spatial information competes for response selection either facilitating or interfering with performance. Responses are faster when stimulus and response position correspond than when they do not. The FEFs, which have long been characterized for their role in oculomotor control, are also involved in the control of visuospatial attention when eye movements are not required. This study was aimed at investigating whether the FEFs contribute to spatial conflict. Double-pulse TMS was applied to the FEF of either left or right hemisphere during the execution of a Simon task at different time windows after the onset of the visual stimulus. A suppression of the Simon effect was observed after stimulation of the FEF for stimuli appearing in the contralateral hemifield when TMS was applied to the left hemisphere after stimulus onset (0–40 and 40–80 msec). A reduction of the correspondence effect was observed after right FEF TMS for stimuli presented in the left visual hemifield when stimulation was delivered in the 80–120 msec range after stimulus onset. These outcomes indicate that the FEF play a critical role in encoding spatial attribute of a stimulus for response priming, which is the prerequisite for response conflict in the Simon task. Moreover, our finding that the left FEF have a dominant role during spatial conflict extends the idea of the left-hemisphere lateralization of the motor network in action selection by suggesting that the FEF may constitute part of this network.
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De Jong, Ritske, Chia-Chin Liang, and Erick Lauber. "Conditional and unconditional automaticity: A dual-process model of effects of spatial stimulus-response correspondence." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 20, no. 4 (1994): 731–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.20.4.731.
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Stins, John F., and Claire F. Michaels. "Stimulus-Response Compatibility for Absolute and Relative Spatial Correspondence in Reaching and in Button Pressing." Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A 53, no. 2 (May 2000): 569–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/713755894.
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Shin, Myoung-Ju, Narisa Marrett, and Anthony J. Lambert. "Visual orienting in response to attentional cues: Spatial correspondence is critical, conscious awareness is not." Visual Cognition 19, no. 6 (June 2011): 730–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2011.582053.
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Kunde, Wilfried, and Christian Stöcker. "A Simon effect for stimulus-response duration." Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A 55, no. 2 (April 2002): 581–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724980143000433.
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A non-spatial variant of the Simon effect for the stimulus-response (S-R) feature of duration is reported. In Experiment 1 subjects were required to press a single response key either briefly or longer in response to the colour of a visual stimulus that varied in its presentation duration. Short keypresses were initiated faster with short than with long stimulus duration whereas the inverse was observed with long keypresses. In Experiment 2 subjects were required to press a left or right key (according to stimulus form) either briefly or longer (according to stimulus colour). The stimuli concurrently varied in their location (left or right) and duration (short or long), which were both task irrelevant. Approximately additive correspondence effects for S-R location and S-R duration were observed. To summarize, the results suggest that the irrelevant stimulus features of location and duration are processed automatically and prime corresponding responses in an independent manner.
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Cho, Yang Seok, and Robert W. Proctor. "Representing Response Position Relative to Display Location: Influence on Orthogonal Stimulus–Response Compatibility." Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A 58, no. 5 (July 2005): 839–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724980443000359.
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Two types of stimulus–response compatibility (SRC) effect occur with orthogonal stimulus and response sets, an overall up–right/down–left advantage and mapping preferences that vary with response position. Researchers agree that the former type is due to asymmetric coding of the stimulus and response alternatives, but disagree as to whether the latter type requires a different explanation in terms of the properties of the motor system. This issue is examined in three experiments. The location of the stimulus set influenced orthogonal SRC when it varied along the same dimension as the responses (Experiments 1 and 2), with the pattern predicted by the hypothesis that the stimulus set provides a referent relative to which response position is coded. The effect of stimulus-set location on orthogonal SRC was independent of the stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) for a marker that indicated stimulus-set side and the imperative stimulus. In contrast, a spatial correspondence effect for the irrelevant stimulus-set location and response was a decreasing function of SOA. Experiment 3 showed that the orthogonal SRC effect was determined by response position relative to the stimulus-set location and not the body midline. The results support the view that both types of orthogonal SRC effects are due to asymmetric coding of the stimuli and responses.
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Czekóová, Kristína, Daniel Joel Shaw, Martin Lamoš, Beáta Špiláková, Miguel Salazar, and Milan Brázdil. "Imitation or Polarity Correspondence? Behavioural and Neurophysiological Evidence for the Confounding Influence of Orthogonal Spatial Compatibility on Measures of Automatic Imitation." Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience 21, no. 1 (January 12, 2021): 212–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13415-020-00860-y.
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AbstractDuring social interactions, humans tend to imitate one another involuntarily. To investigate the neurocognitive mechanisms driving this tendency, researchers often employ stimulus-response compatibility (SRC) tasks to assess the influence that action observation has on action execution. This is referred to as automatic imitation (AI). The stimuli used frequently in SRC procedures to elicit AI often confound action-related with other nonsocial influences on behaviour; however, in response to the rotated hand-action stimuli employed increasingly, AI partly reflects unspecific up-right/down-left biases in stimulus-response mapping. Despite an emerging awareness of this confounding orthogonal spatial-compatibility effect, psychological and neuroscientific research into social behaviour continues to employ these stimuli to investigate AI. To increase recognition of this methodological issue, the present study measured the systematic influence of orthogonal spatial effects on behavioural and neurophysiological measures of AI acquired with rotated hand-action stimuli in SRC tasks. In Experiment 1, behavioural data from a large sample revealed that complex orthogonal spatial effects exert an influence on AI over and above any topographical similarity between observed and executed actions. Experiment 2 reproduced this finding in a more systematic, within-subject design, and high-density electroencephalography revealed that electrocortical expressions of AI elicited also are modulated by orthogonal spatial compatibility. Finally, source localisations identified a collection of cortical areas sensitive to this spatial confound, including nodes of the multiple-demand and semantic-control networks. These results indicate that AI measured on SRC procedures with the rotated hand stimuli used commonly might reflect neurocognitive mechanisms associated with spatial associations rather than imitative tendencies.
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Nattkemper, D. "Visual Motion Induces Effector Movement." Perception 26, no. 1_suppl (August 1997): 280. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/v970334.
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A left-hand response to a left-hand stimulus is faster than a right-hand response to the same stimulus, even when spatial location is irrelevant to the task at hand. The existence of this spatial stimulus-response correspondence effect suggests that spatial properties of actions to be performed can be pre-specified by spatial properties of perceived events, so that actions are induced by perceptual content. If this view is correct, one should be able to show that not only spatial positions of actions can be pre-specified by properties of perceived events, but other features of actions as well. Specifically, I attempt to show that the direction of a to-be-executed movement can be specified by the direction of a moving stimulus. To study this question a variant of the Simon paradigm was developed: subjects were required to monitor a spot-like stimulus moving from left to right or from right to left on a display. At some point in time the spot would change its colour (from white to blue or red) and the subject had to respond differentially to the respective colour. Two aspects of this situation were varied. First, the type of the action-relevant signal was varied: it could either be a dynamic moving signal or a static non-moving one. Second, the type of response was varied: subjects were required to respond to the colour either with a dynamic response (moving a stylus to the left or right) or with a more static response (pressing a button on the left or on the right).
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Tlauka, Michael, and Frank P. McKenna. "Transforming Incompatible Stimulus-Response Pairs into Compatible Ones." Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 41, no. 1 (October 1997): 51–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107118139704100113.
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The design of human-machine systems requires the consideration of a wealth of factors affecting human performance. One important factor concerns stimulus-response (S-R) compatibility effects. S-R compatibility refers to the finding that people respond faster when the relative spatial locations of stimuli and responses correspond (compatible S-R mappings) than when there is no correspondence (incompatible S-R mappings). For example, a visual stimulus that is presented to the right of a central fixation point is responded to more quickly by pressing a right key rather than a left key. In two experiments participants responded to compatible and incompatible S-R mappings. In Experiment 1 the stimuli were perceptually grouped while in Experiment 2 they were arbitrarily associated. Both perceptual grouping and arbitrary associations were found to result in the transformation of incompatible S-R pairs into compatible ones. The results are of practical use for tasks requiring human-machine interactions.
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Bosbach, Simone, Wolfgang Prinz, and Dirk Kerzel. "Is Direction Position? Position- and Direction-Based Correspondence Effects in Tasks with Moving Stimuli." Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A 58, no. 3 (April 2005): 467–506. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724980443000016.
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Five experiments were carried out to test whether (task-irrelevant) motion information provided by a stimulus changing its position over time would affect manual left–right responses. So far, some studies reported direction-based Simon effects whereas others did not. In Experiment 1a, a reliable direction-based effect occurred, which was not modulated by the response mode—that is, by whether participants responded by pressing one of two keys or more dynamically by moving a stylus in a certain direction. Experiments 1a, 1b, and 2 lend support to the idea that observers use the starting position of target motion as a reference for spatial coding. That is, observers might process object motion as a shift of position relative to the starting position and not as directional information. The dominance of relative position coding could also be shown in Experiment 3, in which relative position was pitted against motion direction by presenting a static and dynamic stimulus at the same time. Additionally, we explored the role of eye movements in stimulus–response compatibility and showed in Experiments 1b and 3a that the execution or preparation of saccadic eye movements—as proposed by an attention-shifting account—is not necessary for a Simon effect to occur.
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Devan, Bryan D., Christopher Magalis, and Robert J. McDonald. "Hippocampal development and the dissociation of cognitive-spatial mapping from motor performance." F1000Research 4 (August 25, 2015): 625. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.6966.1.
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The publication of a recent article in F1000Research has led to discussion of, and correspondence on a broader issue that has a long history in the fields of neuroscience and psychology. Namely, is it possible to separate the cognitive components of performance, in this case spatial behavior, from the motoric demands of a task? Early psychological experiments attempted such a dissociation by studying a form of spatial maze learning where initially rats were allowed to explore a complex maze, termed “latent learning,” before reinforcement was introduced. Those rats afforded the latent learning experience solved the task faster than those that were not, implying that cognitive map learning during exploration aided in the performance of the task once a motivational component was introduced. This form of latent learning was interpreted as successfully demonstrating that an exploratory cognitive map component was acquired irrespective of performing a learned spatial response under deprivation/motivational conditions. The neural substrate for cognitive learning was hypothesized to depend on place cells within the hippocampus. Subsequent behavioral studies attempted to directly eliminate the motor component of spatial learning by allowing rats to passively view the distal environment before performing any motor response using a task that is widely considered to be hippocampal-dependent. Latent learning in the water maze, using a passive placement procedure has met with mixed results. One constraint on viewing cues before performing a learned swimming response to a hidden goal has been the act of dynamically viewing distal cues while moving through a part of the environment where an optimal learned spatial escape response would be observed. We briefly review these past findings obtained with adult animals to the recent efforts of establishing a “behavioral topology” separating cognitive-spatial learning from tasks differing in motoric demands in an attempt to define when cognitive-spatial behavior emerges during development.
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Devan, Bryan D., Christopher Magalis, and Robert J. McDonald. "Hippocampal development and the dissociation of cognitive-spatial mapping from motor performance." F1000Research 4 (September 21, 2015): 625. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.6966.2.
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The publication of a recent article in F1000Research has led to discussion of, and correspondence on a broader issue that has a long history in the fields of neuroscience and psychology. Namely, is it possible to separate the cognitive components of performance, in this case spatial behavior, from the motoric demands of a task? Early psychological experiments attempted such a dissociation by studying a form of spatial maze learning where initially rats were allowed to explore a complex maze, termed “latent learning,” before reinforcement was introduced. Those rats afforded the latent learning experience solved the task faster than those that were not, implying that cognitive map learning during exploration aided in the performance of the task once a motivational component was introduced. This form of latent learning was interpreted as successfully demonstrating that an exploratory cognitive map component was acquired irrespective of performing a learned spatial response under deprivation/motivational conditions. The neural substrate for cognitive learning was hypothesized to depend on place cells within the hippocampus. Subsequent behavioral studies attempted to directly eliminate the motor component of spatial learning by allowing rats to passively view the distal environment before performing any motor response using a task that is widely considered to be hippocampal-dependent. Latent learning in the water maze, using a passive placement procedure has met with mixed results. One constraint on viewing cues before performing a learned swimming response to a hidden goal has been the act of dynamically viewing distal cues while moving through a part of the environment where an optimal learned spatial escape response would be observed. We briefly review these past findings obtained with adult animals to the recent efforts of establishing a “behavioral topology” separating cognitive-spatial learning from tasks differing in motoric demands in an attempt to define when cognitive-spatial behavior emerges during development.
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BALEŽENTIENĖ, Ligita. "Analysis of Species Indicator Values in Response to Spatial Environmental Variation of Differently Managed Agro-habitats." Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca 39, no. 2 (November 21, 2011): 18. http://dx.doi.org/10.15835/nbha3926305.
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This paper investigates species indicator values in response to spatial gradients of environmental indices (light, L; moisture, F; nitrogen, N; temperature, T) in different agro-habitats (crop fields and their boundaries of intensive/conventional farming, IF; organic farming, OF) of Lithuania. All plant species were classified according to indicator values of the Ellenberg scale of general abiotic environmental factors (light, moisture, nitrogen, temperature) available for Central Europe. Multiple Correspondence Analysis was applied to analyze the patterns of relationships between species indicator values and environmental conditions in six different agro-habitats. Variation of N-values (ranging from 2 to 9 and x point) was observed to be the highest between ecological gradients, thus indicating wide spatial dispersion of soil N deposition in the habitats. The presence of particular plant species with medium indicator values (L5-L6, F4-F5, N5-N6, T4-T5) suggests that IF crop habitats are favored for establishment of mezophytes. Crop and margin habitats in OF agro-habitats were found to possess a wider environmental gradient, ensuring higher biodiversity.
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Meredith, M. A., and B. E. Stein. "Spatial determinants of multisensory integration in cat superior colliculus neurons." Journal of Neurophysiology 75, no. 5 (May 1, 1996): 1843–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.1996.75.5.1843.
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1. Although a representation of multisensory space is contained in the superior colliculus, little is known about the spatial requirements of multisensory stimuli that influence the activity of neurons here. Critical to this problem is an assessment of the registry of the different receptive fields within individual multisensory neurons. The present study was initiated to determine how closely the receptive fields of individual multisensory neurons are aligned, the physiological role of that alignment, and the possible functional consequences of inducing receptive-field misalignment. 2. Individual multisensory neurons in the superior colliculus of anesthetized, paralyzed cats were studied with the use of standard extracellular recording techniques. The receptive fields of multisensory neurons were large, as reported previously, but exhibited a surprisingly high degree of spatial coincidence. The average proportion of receptive-field overlap was 86% for the population of visual-auditory neurons sampled. 3. Because of this high degree of intersensory receptive-field correspondence, combined-modality stimuli that were coincident in space tended to fall within the excitatory regions of the receptive fields involved. The result was a significantly enhanced neuronal response in 88% of the multisensory neurons studied. If stimuli were spatially disparate, so that one fell outside its receptive field, either a decreased response occurred (56%), or no intersensory effect was apparent (44%). 4. The normal alignment of the different receptive fields of a multisensory neuron could be disrupted by passively displacing the eyes, pinnae, or limbs/body. In no case was a shift in location or size observed in a neuron's other receptive field(s) to compensate for this displacement. The physiological result of receptive-field misalignment was predictable and based on the location of the stimuli relative to the new positions of their respective receptive fields. Now, for example, one component of a spatially coincident pair of stimuli might fall outside its receptive field and inhibit the other's effects. 5. These data underscore the dependence of multisensory integrative responses on the relationship of the different stimuli to their corresponding receptive fields rather than to the spatial relationship of the stimuli to one another. Apparently, the alignment of different receptive fields for individual multisensory neurons ensures that responses to combinations of stimuli derived from the same event are integrated to increase the salience of that event. Therefore the maintenance of receptive-field alignment is critical for the appropriate integration of converging sensory signals and, ultimately, elicitation of adaptive behaviors.
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Zhukov, Olexander, Olga Kunah, Marina Fedushko, Anna Babchenko, and Ava Umerova. "Temporal Aspect of the Terrestrial Invertebrate Response to Moisture Dynamic in Technosols formed after Reclamation at a Post-Mining Site in Ukrainian Steppe Drylands." Ekológia (Bratislava) 40, no. 2 (June 1, 2021): 178–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/eko-2021-0020.
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Abstract Different approaches were applied to assess soil moisture optima and tolerance of the ecological niche temporal projection of terrestrial invertebrates within an experimental polygon created to investigate the reclamation processes after deep underground hard-rock mining in the Ukrainian steppe drylands. Sampling was carried out in 2013–2015 on a variant of artificial soil (technosols). To investigate the spatiotemporal variation in the abundance, species richness and species composition of invertebrate assemblages the animals were sampled using pitfall traps. The readily available water for plants, precipitation, wind speed, atmospheric temperature, atmospheric humidity, and atmospheric pressure were used as environmental predictors. The two-dimension geographic coordinates of the sampling locations were used to generate a set of orthogonal eigenvector-based spatial variables. Time series of sampling dates were used to generate a set of orthogonal eigenvector-based temporal variables. Weighted averaging, generalized linear mixed models, Huisman-Olff-Fresco models expanded by Jansen-Oksanen, correspondence analysis, and constrained correspondence analysis were used to estimate soil moisture species optima and tolerance. The moisture content in the technosols was revealed to be the most important factor determining the temporal dynamics of terrestrial invertebrate community in conditions of semi-arid climate and the ecosystem which formed as a result of the reclamation process. The species response to the soil water content is affected not only by the soil water content but also by the complex of the other environmental, temporal, and spatial factors. The effect of other factors on the species response must be extracted previously to find real estimations of the species optima and tolerance.
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Pix, W., J. M. Zanker, and J. Zeil. "The optomotor response and spatial resolution of the visual system in male Xenos vesparum (Strepsiptera)." Journal of Experimental Biology 203, no. 22 (November 15, 2000): 3397–409. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.203.22.3397.
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The Strepsiptera are an enigmatic group of parasitic insects whose phylogenetic relationships are hotly debated. Male Strepsiptera have very unusual compound eyes, in which each of a small number of ommatidia possesses a retina of at least 60 retinula cells. We analysed the optomotor response of Xenos vesparum males to determine whether spatial resolution in these eyes is limited by the interommatidial angle or by the higher resolution potentially provided by the extended array of retinula cells within each ommatidium. We find that the optomotor response in Strepsiptera has a typical bandpass characteristic in the temporal domain, with a temporal frequency optimum at 1–3 Hz. As a function of spatial wavelength, the optomotor response is zero at grating periods below 12 degrees and reaches its maximum strength at grating periods between 60 degrees and 70 degrees. To identify the combination of interommatidial angles and angular sensitivity functions that would generate such a spatial characteristic, we used motion detection theory to model the spatial tuning function of the strepsipteran optomotor response. We found the best correspondence between the measured response profile and theoretical prediction for an irregular array of sampling distances spaced around 9 degrees (half the estimated interommatidial angle) and an angular sensitivity function of approximately 50 degrees, which corresponds to the angular extent of the retina we estimated at the centre of curvature of the lens. Our behavioural data strongly suggest that, at least for the optomotor response, the resolution of the strepsipteran compound eye is limited by the ommatidial sampling array and not by the array of retinula cells within each ommatidium. We discuss the significance of these results in relation to the functional organisation of strepsipteran compound eyes, their evolution and the role of vision in these insects.
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Megnis, Modris, Janis Varna, David H. Allen, and Anders Holmberg. "Micromechanical Modeling of Viscoelastic Response of GMT Composite." Journal of Composite Materials 35, no. 10 (May 15, 2001): 849–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/a037319.
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Experimental studies have been performed to obtain creep compliance functions of polypropylene (PP) and Glass Mat reinforced Thermoplastics (GMT) with PP matrix. It was found that both GMT and PP in the considered loading region may be considered as linear viscoelastic materials. The obtained viscoelastic compliance functions were successfully used to describe material behavior in the stress relaxation test. A micromechanical model based on the correspondence principle in the Laplace domain was developed to describe the viscoelastic behavior of GMT. This model considers the GMT composite with a given fiber orientation distribution function as consisting of an infinite number of unidirectional layers with orientations corresponding to this distribution function. The viscoelastic properties of the unidirectional layer are calculated using Hashin's concentric cylinder model that uses the experimentally determined viscoelastic properties of PP matrix. The predictions for GMT have been compared with experimental data. The model predicts rather good initial properties of GMT but it gives slightly less time dependence than compared to experimental data for both relaxation functions and compliance. The cause of the difference (debonding) between matrix and fiber, nonuniform fiber spatial distribution, stress concentrations etc.) is discussed.
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Grelle, G., L. Bonito, P. Revellino, L. Guerriero, and F. M. Guadagno. "A hybrid model for mapping simplified seismic response via a GIS-metamodel approach." Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 14, no. 7 (July 14, 2014): 1703–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-14-1703-2014.
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Abstract. In earthquake-prone areas, site seismic response due to lithostratigraphic sequence plays a key role in seismic hazard assessment. A hybrid model, consisting of GIS and metamodel (model of model) procedures, was introduced aimed at estimating the 1-D spatial seismic site response in accordance with spatial variability of sediment parameters. Inputs and outputs are provided and processed by means of an appropriate GIS model, named GIS Cubic Model (GCM). This consists of a block-layered parametric structure aimed at resolving a predicted metamodel by means of pixel to pixel vertical computing. The metamodel, opportunely calibrated, is able to emulate the classic shape of the spectral acceleration response in relation to the main physical parameters that characterize the spectrum itself. Therefore, via the GCM structure and the metamodel, the hybrid model provides maps of normalized acceleration response spectra. The hybrid model was applied and tested on the built-up area of the San Giorgio del Sannio village, located in a high-risk seismic zone of southern Italy. Efficiency tests showed a good correspondence between the spectral values resulting from the proposed approach and the 1-D physical computational models. Supported by lithology and geophysical data and corresponding accurate interpretation regarding modelling, the hybrid model can be an efficient tool in assessing urban planning seismic hazard/risk.
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Babchenko, A. V., M. P. Fedushko, and E. I. Timchiy. "The response of invertebrate communities to a moisture gradient in artificial soils of Ukrainian steppe arid zone." Ukrainian Journal of Ecology 10, no. 6 (December 28, 2020): 338–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.15421/2020_302.
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Animals were sampled within the experimental area using traps to investigate the spatial and temporal variation in abundance, species richness, and species composition of invertebrate communities. A total of 60 traps were operated simultaneously during each sampling period. Traps were emptied 26 times every 7-9 days each year. Plant water availability, precipitation, wind speed, air temperature (minimum, maximum, daily mean), air humidity, and atmospheric pressure were used as ecological predictors of invertebrate community status and structure. Two-dimensional geographic coordinates of sampling locations were used to create a set of orthogonal spatial variables based on eigenvectors. We used time series of sampling dates to produce a set of orthogonal eigenvector time variables. The moisture content in technosols was the most important factor determining the terrestrial invertebrate community's temporal dynamics under semi-arid climate and reclaimed ecosystem conditions. Each ecological group of terrestrial invertebrates is homogeneous in terms of moisture gradient (xerophilic, xerozoophilic, mesophilic) and has a specific set of patterns best explain the species response to water content in technosols. However, one should consider the fact that the species response to soil water content is influenced not only by soil water content but also by a complex of other environmental, temporal and spatial factors. That is why the effect of other factors on the species response must be extracted previously to find real estimations of the species optima and tolerance. This task can be solved using the constrained correspondence analysis (CCA) or constrained redundancy analysis (RDA) depending on the type of response to ecological factors prevailing in the community – monotone or unimodal. We found that in more dry conditions, the prevalent species responses are unimodal asymmetric, in moister – bimodal, and in moderate conditions, the distributions are symmetric unimodal. The asymmetric species response to soil moisture in different parts of the soil humidity range may be assumed as predominantly due to the abiotic factors in the gradient's aridest margin and due predominantly to the biotic factors in the most humid margin of the gradient.
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Leth-Steensen, Craig, and Richie Citta. "Bad–good constraints on a polarity correspondence account for the spatial–numerical association of response codes (SNARC) and markedness association of response codes (MARC) effects." Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 69, no. 3 (March 2016): 482–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2015.1055283.
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Serrat, A., P. Pons, R. Puig-Gironès, and C. Stefanescu. "Environmental factors influencing butterfly abundance after a severe wildfire in Mediterranean vegetation." Animal Biodiversity and Conservation 38, no. 2 (July 2015): 205–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.32800/abc.2015.38.0207.
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Despite the attention given to the ecology of butterflies, little is known about their community response to wildfires in the Mediterranean region. Here, we evaluated the butterfly assemblage two years after a severe, 13,000 ha wildfire in Catalonia (NE Spain) in relation to the surrounding unburned habitat. Using visual transect censuses we assessed community parameters such as abundance, diversity, species richness and equitability in burned and unburned areas. Correspondence analysis was used to analyse specific composition and relative abundance of species in the community. The influence of environmental variables on the abundance of some common species was analysed using generalized linear mixed models, taking spatial effects into account. No significant differences were found between areas for any of the community parameters, and no dominance was detected in the burned area. The structure of the vegetation and the geographical distribution of transects influenced the ordination of species and transects on the correspondence analysis plot. Generalized linear mixed models (GLMM) results underscored the role of nectar availability, fire and vegetation structure on the abundance of most species studied.
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Baniya, Chitra Bahadur. "Response of plant species to abandonment of subalpine fields, Manang, Nepal." Botanica Orientalis: Journal of Plant Science 8 (March 2, 2012): 10–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/botor.v8i0.5553.
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Spatial dimension of abandoned fields has been expanding more in rural subalpine zones of Nepal leading to various patterns of secondary succession. The secondary succession in the subalpine Himalayas has not yet been evaluated. Here, I describe a study initiated in Manang district, Central Nepal where enough abandoned fields of different chronosequences were located. A definitive successional pattern was predicted from the data obtained from sampling 256 plots of 1 × 1 m2 each systematically in a total of 43 abandoned fields from 1 to 55 years after abandonment. Change in composition pattern of 11 most important plant species was analyzed through the Detrended Correspondence Analysis (DCA). The first two axes of DCA explained 19.1 % of the total variation in the species composition. Early, mid and late successions were three stages distinguished each by their abundance scores and life-forms composition. Malva neglecta, Phleum alpinum and Fagopyrum esculentum were dominant at the recently abandoned fields. Cynoglossum zeylanicum, Malaxis muscifera, Medicago falcata and Pennisetum flaccidum were mid succession species, and Thymus linearis, Tanacetum gossypinum, Pinus wallichiana and Poa annua represented the late succession species.doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/botor.v8i0.5553 Botanica Orientalis – Journal of Plant Science (2011) 8: 10-15
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Schmelzer, Isabelle, and Robert Otto. "Winter range drift in the George River Caribou Herd: a response to summer forage limitation?" Rangifer 23, no. 5 (April 1, 2003): 113. http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/2.23.5.1690.
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Space use by the George River caribou herd (GRCH) changes in correspondence with migration patterns. The traditional range of this herd encompasses an area of approximately 900 000 km2. Range use is seasonal and includes travel to traditional calving grounds. Winter range use however, is more variable. The GRCH has grown rapidly from 5000 animals in 1954 to approximately 775 000 in 1993. Beginning in the mid 1980s, the calving and summer range habitats of the GRCH have deteriorated, resulting in a decline in physical condition and subsequent poor calf survival and low pregnancy rates. We assessed the importance of the winter range as a food source compensating for poor summer range quality through an evaluation of winter range drift and use intensity. We hypothesized that if winter ranges provide a compensatory source of forage, then George River caribou should avoid sites heavily used during the previous winter at a population level. Winter ranges for the GRCH were calculated using 4300 caribou locations obtained 1986-2000. We found that in spite of a doubling in net range area, the size of annual winter ranges did not increase, indicating the occurrence of range drift. Further, George River caribou exhibited avoidance of wintering areas at several spatial scales. Avoidance occurred across a use threshold, where the degree of use (or density) during the previous winter determined the level of avoidance during the subsequent winter. As the spatial scale decreased, the degree of avoidance increased. Caribou significantly avoided areas used the previous winter at spatial scales below and including 245 km2 (corresponding to a 75% use distribution). Results suggest winter foraging allows caribou suspend the effects of density-dependent summer forage limitation on herd productivity. As such, analysis of GRCH population trends should be considered in light of both summer and winter range resources.
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Shi, Ziqian, Hua Chen, Kai Fan, and Peng Chen. "Some thoughts and strategies of planning for the impact of “COVID-19” epidemic in Yunnan plateau basin." E3S Web of Conferences 185 (2020): 03044. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202018503044.
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Combined with the big data report of Baidu epidemic, and based on the transmission route and characteristics of “COVID-19” Virus, using GIS spatial analysis technology and related mathematical models, the correspondence between the epidemic development distribution and the spatial pattern of the basin in the Yunnan Plateau was simulated, and the basin distribution, traffic accessibility, urban scale, and tourism fever were found. Destination fever is closely related to the development of the epidemic. Changing the mode of transportation in the basin, changing the mode of land use, constructing regional public health facilities, and improving the community living circle have a suppressive effect on the spread of the epidemic. According to the simulation conclusions, this article focuses on blocking the spread of the epidemic and guaranteeing the treatment and basic life of the personnel during the disaster. It proposes the considerations of the territorial space planning of the Yunnan Plateau basin in response to the epidemic from the region (province)-basin area-community and governance level.
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Zhang, Hui, Weiwei Xian, and Shude Liu. "Autumn ichthyoplankton assemblage in the Yangtze Estuary shaped by environmental factors." PeerJ 4 (April 19, 2016): e1922. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1922.
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This study investigated the response of the ichthyoplankton community to environmental changes in the Yangtze Estuary using canonical correspondence analysis. Ichthyoplankton community and environmental data were recorded during the autumns of 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007 and 2009. Among the ichthyoplankton, the dominant larval and juvenile families were the Engraulidae, Gobiidae and Salangidae, and the most common eggs were fromTrichiurus lepturus. The ichthyoplankton was identified via canonical correspondence analysis to three assemblages: an estuary assemblage dominated byChaeturichthys stigmatias, a coastal assemblage dominated byEngraulis japonicusandStolephorus commersonii, and an offshore assemblage dominated byTrichiurus lepturus. Regarding environmental factors in the Yangtze Estuary, suspended matter and surface seawater salinity were the main factors influencing the distributions of the different assemblages, while sediment from the Yangtze River during the rainy season and chlorophyllawere the principle drivers of the annual variances in the distribution of ichthyoplankton assemblages. Our aims in this study were to provide detailed characterizations of the ichthyoplankton assemblage in the autumns of seven years, examine the long-term dynamics of autumn ichthyoplankton assemblages, and evaluate the influence of environmental factors on the spatial distribution and inter-annual variations of ichthyoplankton assemblages associated with the Yangtze Estuary.
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Chariton, Anthony A., Anthony C. Roach, Stuart L. Simpson, and Graeme E. Batley. "Influence of the choice of physical and chemistry variables on interpreting patterns of sediment contaminants and their relationships with estuarine macrobenthic communities." Marine and Freshwater Research 61, no. 10 (2010): 1109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf09263.
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A primary objective of contaminated sediment risk assessments is to identify if contaminant enrichment is eliciting an ecological response. Using complementary environmental and biotic datasets, we examined five scenarios with respect to: dataset complexity; metal extraction; normalisation of organics; the inclusion/exclusion of acid-volatile sulfide data, and iron and manganese concentrations. Spatial distributions of abiotic variables were examined by principal components analysis, with canonical correspondence analysis used to examine the total and partitioning of biological variation. Metals were the dominant contaminant and explained the largest proportion of variation in the macrobenthic data. Extraction procedure and carbon normalisation of organics had little influence on the overall analysis. Porewater metal data was essential for interpretation, with excess of acid-volatile sulfide over simultaneously extractable metals being a poor surrogate. In the canonical correspondence analyses, the inclusion of Fe/Mn accentuated the covariation between the ecological and contaminant variables. Multimodel comparisons aided interpretation by emphasising specific relationships among environmental variables and their interactions with the biotic data. Furthermore, for future examinations of the described system, the findings can be used to reduce the collection of redundant environmental variables or variables that are poorly correlated with changes in macrobenthic assemblages.
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Dai, F. C., and C. F. Lee. "Terrain-based mapping of landslide susceptibility using a geographical information system: a case study." Canadian Geotechnical Journal 38, no. 5 (October 1, 2001): 911–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/t01-021.
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This paper deals with the development of a technique for mapping landslide susceptibility using a geographical information system (GIS), with particular reference to landslides on natural terrain. The method has been applied to Lantau Island, the largest outlying island within the territory of Hong Kong. Landslide susceptibility in the study area is related to a number of terrain variables, viz., lithology, slope gradient, slope aspect, elevation, land cover, and distance to drainage line. Multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) was carried out to generate the principal axes that are linear combinations of these terrain variables using occurrence data of landslides and terrain variables. A GIS is used to project the values of the principal axes, and subsequently to relate these principal axes to landslide susceptibility by logistic regression modeling. The spatial landslide susceptibility response in the study area can then be obtained by applying this logistic regression model to the study area. The results from this study indicate that such a GIS-based model is useful and suitable for the scale adopted in this study.Key words: landslides, geographical information systems, multiple correspondence analysis, logistic regression, terrain analysis.
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Kawaguchi, Yuri, Masaki Tomonaga, and Ikuma Adachi. "No evidence of spatial representation of age, but “own-age bias” like face processing found in chimpanzees." Animal Cognition 25, no. 2 (October 2, 2021): 415–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10071-021-01564-7.
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AbstractPrevious studies have revealed that non-human primates can differentiate the age category of faces. However, the knowledge about age recognition in non-human primates is very limited and whether non-human primates can process facial age information in a similar way to humans is unknown. As humans have an association between time and space (e.g., a person in an earlier life stage to the left and a person in a later life stage to the right), we investigated whether chimpanzees spatially represent conspecifics’ adult and infant faces. Chimpanzees were tested using an identical matching-to-sample task with conspecific adult and infant face stimuli. Two comparison images were presented vertically (Experiment 1) or horizontally (Experiment 2). We analyzed whether the response time was influenced by the position and age category of the target stimuli, but there was no evidence of correspondence between space and adult/infant faces. Thus, evidence of the spatial representation of the age category was not found. However, we did find that the response time was consistently faster when they discriminated between adult faces than when they discriminated between infant faces in both experiments. This result is in line with a series of human face studies that suggest the existence of an “own-age bias.” As far as we know, this is the first report of asymmetric face processing efficiency between infant and adult faces in non-human primates.
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Ottoboni, Giovanni, Roberto Nicoletti, and Alessia Tessari. "The Effect of Sport Practice on Enhanced Cognitive Processing of Bodily Indices: A Study on Volleyball Players and Their Ability to Predict Hand Gestures." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 10 (May 18, 2021): 5384. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105384.
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To program proper reactions, athletes must anticipate opponents’ actions on the basis of previous visuomotor experience. In particular, such abilities seem to rely on processing others’ intentions to act. We adopted a new approach based on an attentional spatial compatibility paradigm to investigate how elite volleyball players elaborate both spatial and motor information at upper-limb posture presentation. Forty-two participants (18 volleyball players and 17 nonathlete controls assigned to Experiments 1 a and b, and eight basketball players assigned to Experiment 2) were tested to study their ability to process the intentions to act conveyed by hands and extract motor primitives (i.e., significant components of body movements). Analysis looked for a spatial compatibility effect between direction of the spike action (correspondence factor) and response side for both palm and back of the hand (view factor). We demonstrated that volleyball players encoded spatial sport-related indices from bodily information and showed preparatory motor activation according to the direction of the implied spike actions for the palm view (Experiment 1; hand simulating a cross-court spike, p = 0.013, and a down-the-line spike, p = 0.026) but both nonathlete controls (Experiment 1; both p < 0.05) and other sports athletes (basketball players, Experiment 2; p = 0.34, only cross-court spike) did not. Results confirm that elite players’ supremacy lies in the predictive abilities of coding elementary motor primitives for their sport discipline.
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Hess, R. F., C. L. Baker, E. Zrenner, and J. Schwarzer. "Differences between electroretinograms of cat and primate." Journal of Neurophysiology 56, no. 3 (September 1, 1986): 747–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.1986.56.3.747.
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We compared the electroretinogram (ERG) evoked by pattern and uniform field stimulation using steady-state analysis in cat, monkey, and human. Evidence is provided that the pattern-evoked ERG is different in cat and primate. In primate it exhibits a resonance at 8 Hz, a spatial band-pass characteristic, contrast linearity, and no scotopic component. None of these properties are seen in the response to 8-Hz modulation in cat. The ERG evoked by a sinusoidally modulated uniform field of light is composed of a fundamental and a second harmonic component. Although the properties of the fundamental response are similar in cat and primate, the second harmonic response exhibits important differences in its temporal response and luminance dependence. The correspondence between the properties of the pattern-evoked ERG and those of the second harmonic component of the uniform field stimulus in primates suggests a common generator that is different from that of the fundamental response to uniform field stimulation. These differences in the properties of the pattern ERG in cat and primate may suggest either a different generator in cat or one with substantially different properties. This should be taken into account in animal models for the generators of the human pattern ERG response.
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Haeussler, Sybille, and Yves Bergeron. "Range of variability in boreal aspen plant communities after wildfire and clear-cutting." Canadian Journal of Forest Research 34, no. 2 (February 1, 2004): 274–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/x03-274.
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Composition, structure, and diversity of vascular and nonvascular plant communities was compared 3 years after wildfire and clear-cutting in mesic trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) forests of the southern Canadian boreal forest. We examined mean response to disturbance and variability around the mean across four to five spatial scales. Four 1997 wildfires were located near Timmins, Ontario, and ten 19961997 clearcuts were located adjacent to the wildfires. We randomly located plots within mesic, aspen-dominated stands selected to minimize predisturbance environmental differences. Correspondence analysis separated wildfire and clearcut samples based on community composition: wildfires had more aspen suckers, Diervilla lonicera Mill., and pioneering mosses; clearcuts had more under story tall shrubs, forbs, bryophytes, and lichens. Live tree basal area averaged 1.7 m2/ha in wildfires and 1.8 m2/ha in clearcuts (p = 0.59), and understory community structure (the horizontal and vertical distribution of live and dead plant biomass) was not markedly different. Clearcuts had higher species richness with greater variance than wildfires across all spatial scales tested, but differences in beta and structural diversity varied with spatial scale. Generally, clearcutwildfire differences were more evident and wildfire variability greater at larger analytical scales, suggesting that plant biodiversity monitoring should emphasize cumulative effects across landscapes and regions.
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Wachowiak, Matt, and Lawrence B. Cohen. "Correspondence Between Odorant-Evoked Patterns of Receptor Neuron Input and Intrinsic Optical Signals in the Mouse Olfactory Bulb." Journal of Neurophysiology 89, no. 3 (March 1, 2003): 1623–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.00747.2002.
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We compared odorant-evoked patterns of receptor neuron input to the mouse olfactory bulb, imaged with a calcium-sensitive dye, with those of intrinsic optical signals imaged from the same preparations. Both methods yielded patterns of glomerular activity that showed a strong concentration dependence, a loosely organized chemotopy, and involved widely distributed glomeruli. Presynaptic calcium and intrinsic signals showed similar odorant concentration thresholds. Intrinsic signal foci were larger than their corresponding calcium signals, and input to multiple adjacent glomeruli often appeared as a single intrinsic focus. Nonetheless, at near-threshold concentrations, the correspondence between the glomerular calcium and intrinsic signals averaged 75%, with a 71% correspondence between the most strongly activated glomeruli. The correspondence between strongly activated glomeruli decreased as odorant concentration increased, dropping to 51% at 5- to 15-fold higher concentrations. Intrinsic signal foci often saturated at lower concentrations than the calcium signal, implying a smaller dynamic range, and suprathreshold concentrations could recruit strong intrinsic signals in areas showing little or no calcium signal. These differences were such that, at suprathreshold concentrations, the chemotopy of calcium and intrinsic signal response maps often differed. These results suggest that intrinsic optical signals closely reflect receptor neuron input to glomeruli at low odorant concentrations but reflect additional processes at higher concentrations (activation of second-order neurons, centrifugal input, or constraints on the coupling between neuronal activity and hemodynamic changes). Intrinsic signals that are not associated with receptor neuron input have the potential to impact the interpretation of spatial coding strategies in the olfactory bulb.
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Binns, K. E., and T. E. Salt. "Importance of NMDA receptors for multimodal integration in the deep layers of the cat superior colliculus." Journal of Neurophysiology 75, no. 2 (February 1, 1996): 920–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.1996.75.2.920.
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1. Many sensory events contain multimodal information, yet most sensory nuclei are devoted to the analysis of single-modality information. In the deep superior colliculus (DSC), visual, auditory, and somatosensory information converges on individual multimodal neurons. The responses of multimodal neurons are determined by the temporal and spatial correspondence properties of the converging inputs such that stimuli arising from the same event elicit a facilitated multimodal response. 2. N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors may underlie the detection of spatial and temporal coincidence and could be involved in the generation of multimodal facilitatory responses because of the nonlinear properties of NMDA-receptor-mediated events. To assess the role of NMDA receptors in multimodal integration, we made extracellular recordings from single multisensory neurons in the DSC of the cat. 3. The responses to visual, auditory, and somatosensory stimuli alone and to multimodal combinations of stimuli were challenged with iontophoretically applied D-2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate (AP5), an NMDA receptor antagonist. All responses to visual stimuli presented alone (n = 9) were greatly reduced. Somatosensory responses (n = 25) were usually decreased. In contrast, the responses to auditory stimulation were decreased (n = 9), unaffected (n = 3), or enhanced (n = 5). 4. Responses to multimodal stimulus presentations were consistently reduced during iontophoretic application of AP5, irrespective of the modalities that made up the stimulus. The reductions of multimodal responses were significantly greater than the sum of the reductions of responses to single-modality stimuli. 5. The data suggest that for unimodal stimuli, the importance of NMDA receptors in synaptic transmission of sensory responses in DSC may be dependent on the stimulus modality. Furthermore, NMDA receptors are of major importance in the integration of input from different modalities for the generation of multimodal responses.
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Sutter, M. L., and D. Margoliash. "Global synchronous response to autogenous song in zebra finch HVc." Journal of Neurophysiology 72, no. 5 (November 1, 1994): 2105–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.1994.72.5.2105.
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1. The spatial distribution of neuronal responses to autogenous song (AS) was investigated in the HVc of urethan-anesthetized adult male zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). In seven birds, penetrations covered the entire mediolateral, rostrocaudal, or dorsoventral extents of HVc. In an eighth, control birth penetrations were made near to but outside of HVc. Reconstruction of recording sites from histological material indicated a good correspondence between sites that exhibited stronger responses to AS than to tone or noise bursts, and sites that were within HVc. 2. Within each experimental bird but not in the control, multiple-unit responses to AS were similar across the entire spatial extent of HVc (up to 1.3 mm). For each experimental bird, the strongest responses occurred within a narrow range of times. The middle of this range of times is called the time of maximum synchronization (TMS). Across birds, 34–75% of recording sites exhibited the same TMS. With the use of a criterion of > 33% of sites exhibiting their strongest responses at the TMS, the temporal scatter around the TMS varied between 6 and 138 ms across individuals. In six of the seven experimental birds, the position of the TMS was not affected by changing the window of integration from 10 to 150 ms. In two experimental birds, short windows of integration tended to emphasize beginning portions of the song. In one case this effect was sufficiently strong to change the TMS for short windows of integration. 3. Each TMS was associated with a syllable of maximum synchronization (SMS). The positions of the SMS varied considerably across birds. In four birds the SMS was one of the syllables of the first motif (a motif is a temporal sequence of syllables that can be repeated > or = 1 times to form a song), in two birds the SMS was the introductory note of song, and in one bird the SMS was the second syllable of the last (3rd) motif. Syllables of the same type as the SMS but occurring in other motifs typically elicited much weaker responses, in many cases weaker than other syllables in those motifs. Syllables that elicited strong responses in non-SMS motifs did not necessarily elicit strong responses in the SMS motif, even if they preceded the SMS. There were no apparent acoustical features of the SMS or the preceding syllable that could account for the global synchronous response to song.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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Bond, Andrew R., Chih-Wen Ni, Hanjoong Jo, and Peter D. Weinberg. "Intimal cushions and endothelial nuclear elongation around mouse aortic branches and their spatial correspondence with patterns of lipid deposition." American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology 298, no. 2 (February 2010): H536—H544. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajpheart.00917.2009.
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Spatial variation in hemodynamic stresses acting on the arterial wall may explain the nonuniform distribution of atherosclerosis. In thoracic aortas of LDL receptor/apolipoprotein E double knockout mice, lesions develop preferentially around the entire circumference of intercostal branch ostia, regardless of age, with the highest prevalence occurring upstream. Additional chevron-shaped lesions occur further upstream of the ostia. This pattern differs from the age-related ones occurring in people and rabbits. In the present study, patterns of near-wall blood flow around intercostal ostia in wild-type mice were estimated from the morphology of endothelial nuclei, which were shown in vitro to elongate in response to elevated shear stress and to align with the flow, and wall structure was assessed from confocal and scanning electron microscopy. A triangular intimal cushion surrounded the upstream part of most ostia. Nuclear length-to-width ratios were lowest over this cushion and highest at the sides of branches, regardless of age. Nuclear orientations were consistent with flow diverging around the branch. The pattern of nuclear morphology differed from the age-related ones observed in rabbits. The intimal cushion and the distribution of shear stress inferred from these observations can partly account for the pattern of lesions observed in knockout mice. Nuclear elongation in nonbranch regions was approximately constant across animals of different size, demonstrating the existence of a mechanism by which endothelial cells compensate for the dependence of mean aortic wall shear stress on body mass.
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Kim, Dong-Kyun, Hyunbin Jo, Kiyun Park, and Ihn-Sil Kwak. "Assessing Spatial Distribution of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Communities Associated with Surrounding Land Cover and Water Quality." Applied Sciences 9, no. 23 (November 28, 2019): 5162. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app9235162.
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The study aims to assess the spatial distribution of benthic macroinvertebrate communities in response to the surrounding environmental factors related to land use and water quality. A total of 124 sites were surveyed at the Seomjin River basin in May and September 2017, respectively. We evaluated the abundance and composition of benthic macroinvertebrate communities based on nine subwatersheds. Subsequently, we compared the benthic information with the corresponding land use and water quality. To comprehensively explore the spatiotemporal distinction of benthic macroinvertebrate communities associated with those ambient conditions, we applied canonical correspondence analysis (CCA). The CCA results explicitly accounted for 61% of the explanatory variability; the first axis (45.5%) was related to land-use factors, and the second axis (15.5%) was related to water quality. As a result, the groups of benthic communities were distinctly characterized in relation to these two factors. It was found that land-use information is primarily an efficient proxy of ambient water quality conditions to determine benthic macroinvertebrates, such as Asellus spp., Gammarus spp., and Simulium spp. in a stream ecosystem. We also found that specific benthic families or genera within the same groups (Coleoptera, Diptera, Ephemeroptera, and Trichoptera) are also differentiated from ambient water quality changes as a secondary component. In particular, the latter pattern appeared to be closely associated with the impact of summer rainfall on the benthic community changes. Our study sheds light upon projecting benthic community structure in response to changes of land use and water quality. Finally, we conclude that easily accessible information, such as land-use data, aids in effectively characterizing the distribution of benthic macroinvertebrates, and thus enables us to rapidly assess stream health and integrity.
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Williams, D. Dudley, Nancy E. Williams, and Yong Cao. "Spatial differences in macroinvertebrate community structure in springs in southeastern Ontario in relation to their chemical and physical environments." Canadian Journal of Zoology 75, no. 9 (September 1, 1997): 1404–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z97-767.
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This study examined the benthic macroinvertebrate communities of 20 springs in southeastern Ontario in relation to major water chemical variables and temperature. Significant differences were evident among the spring communities, and a TWINSPAN classification showed three major groups, which were associated with different levels of urbanization and water chemical conditions. Canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) ordinations indicated that the major environmental gradient was related to temperature and NH4 and to two springs adjacent to a landfill site. CCA ordination of a sub-data set excluding these latter two sites together with 3 closely related variables better illustrated the response of spring communities to different levels of urbanization. The strongest relationship to emerge was that between taxon occurrences and chloride, a major contaminant in groundwater in the study area and believed to be derived from road salt. Several taxa were closely associated with high chloride levels (e.g., Tipulidae and Ceratopogonidae), whereas others occurred only in springs with low chloride levels (e.g., Gammarus pseudolimnaeus and Turbellaria). The possibility of using spring macroinvertebrates as biological indicators of chloride contamination of groundwater is discussed.
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Liu, Shuangshuang, Qipeng Liao, Mingzhu Xiao, Dengyue Zhao, and Chunbo Huang. "Spatial and Temporal Variations of Habitat Quality and Its Response of Landscape Dynamic in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 6 (March 17, 2022): 3594. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19063594.
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Habitat quality is an important indicator for assessing biodiversity and is critical to ecosystem processes. With urban development and construction in developing countries, habitat quality is increasingly influenced by landscape pattern changes. This has made habitat conservation to be an increasingly urgent issue. Despite the growing interest in this issue, studies that reveal the role of land use change in habitat degradation at multiple scales are still lacking. Therefore, we analyzed the spatial and temporal variations of habitat quality of the Three Gorges Reservoir area by the InVEST habitat quality model and demonstrated the responses of habitat quality to various landscape dynamics by correspondence analysis. The result showed that the habitat quality score of this area increased from 0.685 in 2000 to 0.739 in 2015 and presented a significant spatial heterogeneity. Habitat quality was significantly higher in the northeastern and southwestern parts of the reservoir area than in other regions. Meanwhile, habitat quality improved with altitude and slope, and increased for all altitude and slope zones. The habitat quality of >1000 m and >25° zone exceeds 0.8, while the habitat quality of <500 m and <15° zone is less than 0.6. Habitat quality significantly varied among landscape dynamics and was extremely sensitive to vegetation recovery and urban expansion. The vegetation restoration model of returning farmland to forest is difficult to sustain, so we suggest changing the vegetation recovery model to constructing complex vegetation community. This study helps us to better understand the effects of landscape pattern changes on habitat quality and can provide a scientific basis for formulating regional ecological conservation policies and sustainable use of land resources.
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Feng, Mei-Ling Emily, and Judy Che-Castaldo. "Comparing the reliability of relative bird abundance indices from standardized surveys and community science data at finer resolutions." PLOS ONE 16, no. 9 (September 10, 2021): e0257226. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257226.
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Biodiversity loss is a global ecological crisis that is both a driver of and response to environmental change. Understanding the connections between species declines and other components of human-natural systems extends across the physical, life, and social sciences. From an analysis perspective, this requires integration of data from different scientific domains, which often have heterogeneous scales and resolutions. Community science projects such as eBird may help to fill spatiotemporal gaps and enhance the resolution of standardized biological surveys. Comparisons between eBird and the more comprehensive North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) have found these datasets can produce consistent multi-year abundance trends for bird populations at national and regional scales. Here we investigate the reliability of these datasets for estimating patterns at finer resolutions, inter-annual changes in abundance within town boundaries. Using a case study of 14 focal species within Massachusetts, we calculated four indices of annual relative abundance using eBird and BBS datasets, including two different modeling approaches within each dataset. We compared the correspondence between these indices in terms of multi-year trends, annual estimates, and inter-annual changes in estimates at the state and town-level. We found correspondence between eBird and BBS multi-year trends, but this was not consistent across all species and diminished at finer, inter-annual temporal resolutions. We further show that standardizing modeling approaches can increase index reliability even between datasets at coarser temporal resolutions. Our results indicate that multiple datasets and modeling methods should be considered when estimating species population dynamics at finer temporal resolutions, but standardizing modeling approaches may improve estimate correspondence between abundance datasets. In addition, reliability of these indices at finer spatial scales may depend on habitat composition, which can impact survey accuracy.
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Lim, Ki-Taek, and Do Woo Kim. "A Study on Improvement Remodeling Methodology for the Online Visitation Room in Correctional Facilities: Focused on Remodeling Proposal for the Online Visitation Room in the H Prison." Korean Association of Public Safety and Criminal Justice 31, no. 3 (September 30, 2022): 375–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.21181/kjpc.2022.31.3.375.
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After the millennium, the digitalization of society as a whole proceeded rapidly due to the fast change to a digital society, one of the major changes in correctional administration is the development of online civil service in response to the demands of the times. It can be said that Online Visitation is activated along with the high needs of deposit and Internet correspondence. In correctional administration, an visitation is an important correctional element that can bring positive effects to improve the treatment of prisoners and the correctional effect. However, although the demand for online visitation is increasing explosively due to the expansion of digital devices and the increase in needs, the system, manpower and space of the correctional facility are still showing various problems. The purpose of this study is to analyze the remodeling methodology for improving the function of the online visitation room in current correctional facilities in Korea and to suggest alternatives for the practical remodeling method. The need for horizontal extension and the case for it should be integrated with this spatial structure in consideration when constructiong new buildings in the future. In the case of an existing correctional facility, there is a need to improve the spatial structure as an example of horizontal extension.
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Bergamo, Paolo, Conny Hammer, and Donat Fäh. "Correspondence between Site Amplification and Topographical, Geological Parameters: Collation of Data from Swiss and Japanese Stations, and Neural Networks-Based Prediction of Local Response." Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 112, no. 2 (November 16, 2021): 1008–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1785/0120210225.
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ABSTRACT We address the relation between seismic local amplification and topographical and geological indicators describing the site morphology. We focus on parameters that can be derived from layers of diffuse information (e.g., digital elevation models, geological maps) and do not require in situ surveys; we term these parameters as “indirect” proxies, as opposed to “direct” indicators (e.g., f0, VS30) derived from field measurements. We first compiled an extensive database of indirect parameters covering 142 and 637 instrumented sites in Switzerland and Japan, respectively; we collected topographical indicators at various spatial extents and focused on shared features in the geological descriptions of the two countries. We paired this proxy database with a companion dataset of site amplification factors at 10 frequencies within 0.5–20 Hz, empirically measured at the same Swiss and Japanese stations. We then assessed the robustness of the correlation between individual site-condition indicators and local response by means of statistical analyses; we also compared the proxy-site amplification relations at Swiss versus Japanese sites. Finally, we tested the prediction of site amplification by feeding ensembles of indirect parameters to a neural network (NN) structure. The main results are: (1) indirect indicators show higher correlation with site amplification in the low-frequency range (0.5–3.33 Hz); (2) topographical parameters primarily relate to local response not because of topographical amplification effects but because topographical features correspond to the properties of the subsurface, hence to stratigraphic amplification; (3) large-scale topographical indicators relate to low-frequency response, smaller-scale to higher-frequency response; (4) site amplification versus indirect proxy relations show a more marked regional variability when compared with direct indicators; and (5) the NN-based prediction of site response is the best achieved in the 1.67–5 Hz band, with both geological and topographical proxies provided as input; topographical indicators alone perform better than geological parameters.