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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1997
Srikantan Nagarajan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael M. Merzenich, San Francisco, CA (US);
David T. Blake, San Francisco, CA (US);
Beverly A. Wright, Evanston, IL (US);
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
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.