Information Needs and Information Seeking Behaviours of Elementary School Students in Taiwan

In this article, we mainly want to investigate the transition of the subjects of children’s information needs and we discuss the context behind those needs. Moreover, in order to more understand the education of information literacy in Taiwan, we deliberately set our two sample groups from two different schools. One school is Taipei Xin Sheng elementary which is not a information seed school, and another is Taipei Wan Fang elementary school, an information seed school. We respectively interviewed with the students of two schools. Then we analyzed the common of the two schools and so did the differences. The findings of our study are presented in five parts: stimulus, source, channels, ways and the result. Finally, the main purpose and recommend of our study emphasize the importance to improve education of information literacy on children in Taiwan.

Using optically-pumped magnetometers to measure magnetoencephalographic signals in the human cerebellum

We test the feasibility of an optically pumped magnetometer-magnetoencephalographic (OP-MEG) system for the measurement of human cerebellar activity. This is to our knowledge the first study investigating the human cerebellar electrophysiology using OPMs. As a proof of principle, we use an air-puff stimulus to the eyeball in order to elicit cerebellar activity that is well characterised in non-human models. In three subjects, we observe an evoked component at approx. 50ms post-stimulus, followed by a second component at approx. 85-115 ms post-stimulus. Source inversion localises both components in the cerebellum, while control experiments exclude potential sources elsewhere. We also assess the induced oscillations, with time-frequency decompositions, and identify the source in the occipital lobe, a region expected to be active in our paradigm. We conclude that the OP-MEG technology offers a promising way to advance the understanding of the information processing mechanisms in the human cerebellum.