Patents by Inventor MICHAEL MERZENICH

MICHAEL MERZENICH has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ASSESSING AND IMPROVING PROCESSING OF TEMPORAL INFORMATION IN HUMAN
    Publication number: 20020061498
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 1997
    Publication date: May 23, 2002
    Inventors: SRIKANTAN NAGARAJAN, MICHAEL MERZENICH, DAVID T. BLAKE, BEVERLY A. WRIGHT