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Lightness contrast & assimilation: testing the hypotheses
Lightness contrast alters lightness of a target decreasing its similarity with neighbouring surfaces (inducers), while lightness assimilation has an opposite effect, similarity is increased.
Predrag Nedimović, Sučica Zdravković
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Natural variation in female reproductive hormones does not affect contrast sensitivity [PDF]
Evidence suggests that females experience adaptive shifts in facial preferences across the menstrual cycle. However, recent discussions and meta-analyses suggest that these findings are equivocal.
Abigail L. M. Webb +2 more
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Background: Despite several hypotheses, our understanding of syringomyelia’s pathophysiology remains limited. The hypothesis proposed by Oldfield et al.
Han Soo Chang
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A postmortem study suggests a revision of the dual-hit hypothesis of Parkinson’s disease
The dual-hit hypothesis of Parkinson’s disease (PD) originally postulated that a neurotropic pathogen leads to formation of α-synuclein pathology in the olfactory bulb (OB) and dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus (DMV) and then invades the brain from these
P. Borghammer +10 more
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Dreaming during the COVID-19 pandemic: Support for the threat simulation function of dreams
Evolutionary theories suggest that dreams function as a world simulator of events that maximizes our ability to surmount social and threat-related challenges critical to survivorship and reproduction.
Noor H. Abbas, David R. Samson
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Possibility Measure of Accepting Statistical Hypothesis
Taking advantage of the possibility of fuzzy test statistic falling in the rejection region, a statistical hypothesis testing approach for fuzzy data is proposed in this study.
Jung-Lin Hung +2 more
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Features of self-attitude and self-esteem of freelancers
Introduction Freelancing can be analyzed through psychological prism of escapism, through the desire not to be involved in the systems of inflexible social ties that are accepted in group (career, family, classical education, etc.) Objectives ...
V. Umlauft
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It is commonly acknowledged that gamma-band oscillations arise from interplay between neural excitation and inhibition; however, the neural mechanisms controlling the power of stimulus-induced gamma responses (GR) in the human brain remain poorly ...
Elena V Orekhova +4 more
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How experience with tone in the native language affects the L2 acquisition of pitch accents
This paper tested the ability of Mandarin learners of German, whose native language has lexical tone, to imitate pitch accent contrasts in German, an intonation language.
Katharina Zahner-Ritter +3 more
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An etiology of human modernity
Following the refutation of the replacement hypothesis, which had proposed that a ‘superior’ hominin species arose in Africa and replaced all other humans existing at the time, the auto-domestication hypothesis remains the only viable explanation for the
Bednarik Robert G.
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