New Material Exploration to Enhance Neutron Intensity below Cold Neutrons: Nanosized Graphene Flower Aggregation.

It is proposed that nanosized graphene aggregation could facilitate coherent neutron scattering under particle size conditions similar to nanodiamonds to enhance neutron intensity below cold neutrons. Using the RIKEN accelerator-driven compact neutron source and iMATERIA at J-PARC, we performed neutron measurement experiments, total neutron cross-section and small-angle neutron scattering on nanosized graphene aggregation. For the first time, the measured data revealed that nanosized graphene aggregation increased the total neutron cross-sections and small-angle scattering in the cold neutron energy region.

Latency of modality-specific reactivation of auditory and visual information during episodic memory retrieval.

This study used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to examine the latency of modality-specific reactivation in the visual and auditory cortices during a recognition task to determine the effects of reactivation on episodic memory retrieval. Nine right-handed healthy young adults participated in the experiment. The experiment consisted of a word-encoding phase and two recognition phases.

Reactivation of physical motor information in the memory of action events.

When attempting to memorize action sentences (e.g., open an umbrella), performing the action of the sentence (enacted encoding) results in better memory performance than simply memorizing the sentences (verbal encoding).

MEG measurement of event-related brain activity evoked by emotional prosody recognition.

Cortical areas involved in processing of emotional prosody (EP) in spoken language, such as joy or sadness, have been found in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies bilaterally or dominantly in the right frontal or temporal lobes. In this study, we investigated spatiotemporal patterns of cortical activity related to EP processing using magnetoencephalography (MEG). In this experiment, a joyful face (JF) or a sad face (SF) was displayed after voices which had emotional features of joy (joy prosody: JP) or sadness (sad prosody: SP) were presented.

The preparation of the chronic hyper-endotoxemia experimental animal model by means of a drug delivery system.

A drug delivery system (DDS) consisting of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) as a drug and 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA)-diethylene glycol dimethacrylate (2G) or -polyethylene glycol dimethacrylate (4G, 9G) copolymer was prepared, and used for the efficient preparation of an experimental animal model of chronic hyper-endotoxemia. The release profiles of LPS in the in-vitro test were greatly influenced by the composition of HEMA-2G, 4G, 9G in the copolymer. It was found that LPS release from the DDS continued gradually and constantly throughout 2 weeks.