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      Clothing Pressure Alters Brain Wave Activity in the Occipital and Parietal Lobes

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      Journal: Translational Neuroscience
      Publisher: De Gruyter
      Keywords: clothing, electroencephalogram, EEG source analysis, psychology of fashion

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          Despite the importance of clothing pressure discomfort in the undergarment industry, a reliable unbiased measurement of clothing pressure discomfort has not been well-established. In the present study, we investigate changes in brain wave activity as a potential objective and consistent measuring tool for clothing pressure discomfort. We recorded α wave activity in 5 functional regions (30 channels) of the brain in 10 females with or without a girdle. We determined that α wave power spectrum significantly increases when the girdle is worn compared to when it is not worn, specifically in the parietal and occipital regions. These findings suggest that clothing pressure exerted by wearing a girdle mostly stimulates the parietal and occipital regions and that these regions should be investigated in future studies using α wave energy to measure clothing pressure discomfort.

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          Effects of pressure on the skin exerted by clothing on responses of urinary catecholamines and cortisol, heart rate and nocturnal urinary melatonin in humans.

          Yuki Mori, Etsuko Kioka, Hiromi Tokura (2002)
          The study investigated how the pressure exerted on the skin by clothing worn while working in the daytime affected the urinary excretion of adrenaline, noradrenaline and cortisol, heart rate, and also melatonin secretion at night. Nine young women (experiment I) and seven young women (experiment II) participated. Participants wore either a 100% cotton jacket (tight clothes, TC) or a 100% cotton T-shirt (loose clothes, LC). Loose-fitting, 100% cotton tank tops and panties were worn as underwear in both the TC and the LC groups. The main results can be summarized as follows: (1) urinary excretion of adrenaline, noradrenaline and cortisol was facilitated, and the amounts of urinary excretion were significantly higher when TC were worn. Heart rate was significantly higher in the TC group; (2) nocturnal urinary melatonin excretion was significantly greater in the TC group. These results are discussed in terms of an enhancement of diurnal sympathetic nervous system activity caused by pressure on the skin produced by tight clothing.
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            Evaluating Aesthetic Experience through Personal-Appearance Styles: A Behavioral and Electrophysiological Study

            Mei-chun Cheung, Derry Law, Joanne Yip (2014)
            Consumers' aesthetic experience has often been linked with the concept of beauty, which is regarded as subjective and may vary between individuals, cultures and places, and across time. With the advent of brain-imaging techniques, there is more and more evidence to suggest that aesthetic experience lies not only in the eye of the beholder, but also in the brain of the beholder. However, there are gaps in the previous research in this area, as several significant issues have not yet been addressed. Specifically, it is unclear whether the human brain really pays more attention and generates more positive emotional responses to beautiful things. To explore the brain activity relating to consumers' aesthetic experiences, 15 participants were recruited voluntarily to view a series of personal-appearance styles. They were invited to make aesthetic judgments while their brain activity was recorded by electroencephalography. Two electroencephalographic (EEG) indicators, theta coherence and frontal alpha symmetry, were utilized. Theta coherence is a measure of linear synchronization between signals at two electrode sites. It reflects the degree of functional cooperation between the underlying neuronal substrates and was used to explore the attentional processing involved in aesthetic judgments. Frontal alpha asymmetry is derived by subtracting the log-transformed absolute alpha power of the left hemisphere from the analogous log-transformed alpha power of the right hemisphere. It was used as an indicator of emotional response. During aesthetic judgments, long-range theta coherence increased in both hemispheres and more positive frontal alpha asymmetry was found when the styles were judged to be beautiful. Therefore, participants demonstrated brain activity suggestive of central executive processing and more positive emotional responses when they considered styles to be beautiful. The study provides some insight into the brain activity associated with consumers' aesthetic experiences, and suggests new directions for exploring consumer behavior from the perspective of neuroscience.
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              Effect of Wearing a Tight Waist Belt on the Sagittal Kinematics of the Pelvis during Sit-to-Stand

              Se-yeon Park, Won-gyu Yoo (2014)
              [Purpose] The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effect of a tight waist belt on the human musculoskeletal system by assessing sagittal pelvic kinematic data during the sit-to-stand (STS) maneuver. [Subjects] Twelve asymptomatic males were recruited and three belt conditions were used during the STS. Sagittal kinematic data of pelvic motion were collected using a 3D motion-capture device [Results] The changes of the anterior pelvic tilt during the STS were significantly greater in the tight waist-belt condition than in the no-belt condition. [Conclusion] The results of this study show that wearing a tight waist belt increases anterior pelvic motion.
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                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Transl Neurosci
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Transl Neurosci
                Journal ID (publisher-id): tnsci
                Journal ID (pmc): tnsci
                Title: Translational Neuroscience
                Publisher: De Gruyter
                ISSN (Print): 2081-3856
                ISSN (Electronic): 2081-6936
                Publication date (Electronic): 23 April 2019
                Publication date Collection: 2019
                Volume: 10
                Pages: 76-80
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Collaborative Innovation Center of Modern Clothing Technology Minjiang University , Fuzhou, China
                [2 ]The Department Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at San Antonio , San Antonio, USA
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                Publisher ID: tnsci-2019-0013
                DOI: 10.1515/tnsci-2019-0013
                PMC ID: 6487781
                SO-VID: 44c57d0f-7573-490d-be4e-743946664ce9
                Copyright © © 2019 Yunjuan Liu, Yan Wang, published by De Gruyter
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                This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Public License.

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                Date received : 26 December 2018
                Date accepted : 12 February 2019
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                Pages: 5
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                Subject: Special Issue: Adult Neurogenesis and Neurological Disorders

                Keywords: clothing,electroencephalogram,eeg source analysis,psychology of fashion
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                Keywords: clothing, electroencephalogram, eeg source analysis, psychology of fashion

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