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Copper Exposure Affects Anti-Predatory Behaviour and Acetylcholinesterase Levels in Culex pipiens (Diptera, Culicidae)

open access: yesInsects, 2022
Copper is an essential metal that occurs chronically in the environment and affects the development and physiology of aquatic insects. In excess amounts, it can impair their nervous system and behaviour.
Nermeen R. Amer   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Inferring the stiffness of unfamiliar objects from optical, shape, and motion cues [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Visually inferring the stiffness of objects is important for many tasks but is challenging because, unlike optical properties (e.g., gloss), mechanical properties do not directly affect image values.
Fleming, Roland W.   +3 more
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Targeting in Language: Unifying Deixis and Anaphora

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
This article proposes that a single cognitive system underlies the two domains of linguistic reference traditionally termed anaphora and deixis. In anaphora, the referent is an element of the current discourse itself, whereas in deixis, the referent is ...
Leonard Talmy
doaj   +1 more source

Normal and impaired reflexive orienting of attention after central nonpredictive cues [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Recent studies suggest that stimuli with directional meaning can trigger lateral shifts of visuospatial attention when centrally presented as noninformative cues.
Bonato, Mario   +3 more
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Identifying cues of distorted memories in intensive care by focus group interview of nurses

open access: yesNursing Open, 2022
Aim To determine cues to identify intensive care unit patients with distorted memories and related practices. Design Qualitative descriptive study. Methods Twenty nurses were included in semi‐structured focus groups.
Tomohide Fukuda   +6 more
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Visual servoing of nonholonomic cart [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
This paper presents a visual feedback control scheme for a nonholonomic cart without capabilities for dead reckoning. A camera is mounted on the cart and it observes cues attached on the environment.
Hashimoto, Koichi, Noritsugu, Toshiro
core   +1 more source

Multimodal interactions in insect navigation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Animals travelling through the world receive input from multiple sensory modalities that could be important for the guidance of their journeys. Given the availability of a rich array of cues, from idiothetic information to input from sky compasses and ...
Buehlmann, Cornelia   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Own attractiveness and dissatisfaction with physical appearance independently predict the salience of facial cues to size when women judge other women’s attractiveness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
While facial cues to body size are a valid guide to health and attractiveness, it is unclear whether the observer’s own condition predicts the salience of (low) size as a cue to female attractiveness.
Watkins, Christopher D.
core   +2 more sources

Global Cue Inconsistency Diminishes Learning of Cue Validity [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2016
In daily life, we make decisions that are associated with probabilistic outcomes (e.g., the chance of rain today). People search for and utilize information that validly predicts an outcome (i.e., we look for dark clouds to indicate the possibility of rain).
Wang, TSL   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

An investigation of visual cues used to create and support frames of reference and visual search tasks in desktop virtual environments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Visual depth cues are combined to produce the essential depth and dimensionality of Desktop Virtual Environments (DVEs). This study discusses DVEs in terms of the visual depth cues that create and support perception of frames of references and ...
Cribbin, T, Macredie, RD, Morar, SS
core   +1 more source

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