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Anisotropic perception of slant from texture gradient: Size contrast hypothesis [PDF]
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2015 When we see an optical pattern that has a gradient of the size and/or density of its texture elements, we often perceive a surface that is slanted in depth. Our inquiry was to ask whether the effect of a texture gradient depends on the direction of the gradient (ground, ceiling, and sidewall patterns) or on the position of the observer's head (upward ...
Higashiyama, Atsuki, Yamazaki, Tadashi
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The paradox of rapid and synchronized propagation of seasonal influenza ‘A’ outbreaks in contrast with COVID-19: a testable hypothesis [PDF]
Virus ResearchSeasonal influenza A virus (SIAV) apparently exhibits a paradoxical pattern: despite a lower basic reproduction number (R₀) than SARS-CoV-2, it propagates across the Northern Hemisphere with remarkable speed and synchronicity.
Uri Gabbay, Doron Carmi
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Possibility Measure of Accepting Statistical Hypothesis
Mathematics, 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
European 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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PLoS 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
Frontiers 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
Anthropological 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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The two visual systems hypothesis and contrastive underdetermination [PDF]
Synthese, 2018 This paper concerns local yet systematic problems of contrastive underdetermination of model choice in cognitive neuroscience debates about the so-called two visual systems hypothesis. The underdetermination problem is systematically generated by the way certain assumptions about the representationalist nature of computation are translated into ...
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Sex investment ratios in eusocial Hymenoptera support inclusive fitness theory [PDF]
, 2015 Inclusive fitness theory predicts that sex investment ratios in eusocial Hymenoptera are a function of the relatedness asymmetry (relative relatedness to females and males) of the individuals controlling sex allocation. In monogynous ants (with one queen
Bourke, Andrew F. G.
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Examining the Role of Phoneme Frequency in First Language Perceptual Attrition
Languages, 2023 In this paper, we follow up on previous findings concerning first language (L1) perceptual attrition to examine the role of phoneme frequency in influencing variation across L1 contrasts.
Charles B. Chang, Sunyoung Ahn
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