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Lightness contrast & assimilation: testing the hypotheses

open access: yesPrimenjena Psihologija, 2021
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]

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2018
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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Hypothesis on the pathophysiology of syringomyelia based on analysis of phase-contrast magnetic resonance imaging of Chiari-I malformation patients [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

open access: yesF1000Research, 2023
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

open access: yesnpj Parkinson's Disease, 2022
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

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
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

open access: yesMathematics, 2020
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

open access: yesEuropean Psychiatry, 2023
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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Additive effect of contrast and velocity suggests the role of strong excitatory drive in suppression of visual gamma response.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
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

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
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

open access: yesAnthropological Review, 2021
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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