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Camouflaged Physical Objects: The Intentionality of Perception

Theoria, 2010
The notion of “camouflage” offers a new way to articulate some central ideas of direct realism. Through a certain natural history, physical objects would be able to adopt as a “second skin” the qualitative appearances they have when they are perceived ...
Manuel LIZ
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A Structural Equation Modeling Approach to Examining Factors Influencing Outcomes with Cochlear Implant in Mandarin-Speaking Children. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
To examine the direct and indirect effects of demographical factors on speech perception and vocabulary outcomes of Mandarin-speaking children with cochlear implants (CIs).115 participants implanted before the age of 5 and who had used CI before 1 to 3 ...
Yuan Chen, Lena L N Wong, Shufeng Zhu, Xin Xi   +3 more
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Reaching conceptual stability by re-articulating empirical and theoretical work on affordances

Frontiers in Psychology
Theoretical developments on affordances have proliferated, resulting in a lack of conceptual stability and a potential compromise in scientific validity.
Roman Malo, Yannick Prié
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Direct Social Perception of Emotions in Close Relations

Phenomenology and Mind, 2017
Drawing on a pluralist approach to mindreading, I explore Direct Social Perception with respect to perceiving the emotional states of people that we are close to, such as spouses, friends, and family.
Andrea Blomqvist
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On the perception of the direction of sound [PDF]

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character, 1908
Abstract The following paper contains an account of a series of experiments on the perception of direction of sound which were undertaken with the object of investigating the nature of the influence of phase differences between the vibrations at the two ears. Lord Rayleigh has shown that such differences help to determine the apparent
Charles Samuel Myers, Harold Albert Wilson   +1 more
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Therapeutic Apheresis in Nigeria: A Multi‐Center Summary of Abstracts From the Inaugural Nigerian Society for Apheresis Scientific Meeting

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Therapeutic apheresis (TA) is an established treatment modality for hematologic, neurologic, and immunologic disorders, yet access remains severely limited in sub‐Saharan Africa. Donor apheresis, including platelet apheresis collection from healthy donors, represents an important complementary modality supporting blood product ...
Nosa Bazuaye, Chimezie Okwuonu, Evelyn Idam, Folasade Adelekan‐Popoola, Shakirat Gold‐Olufadi, Olufunto Olufela Kalejaiye, Abdullateef Ogala, Zinnah Aloziem, Blossom Amamchukwu, Patience Elimia, Mkpoikanabasi Obot‐Obot, Henry Mbakwe, Praises Maduagwuna, Olatunji Akinrodoye, Chiamaka Anyanwu, Benjamin Anyanwu, Adedamola Akinsiku, Oluwatoyin A. Akinsiku, Muzamil O. Hassan, Fatiu A. Arogundade, Olalekan E. Ojo, Homayemem Weli, Jesupelumi Adenihun, Aderemi Adelaja, Ebun Bamgboye, Olalekan Olatise, Ade E. Faponle, Ayoola Odeyemi, Michael Muoka, Stephen Asaolu, Qudrat Busari, Blessing Dawudu, Michael Naiyeju, Rasheed A. Balogun   +33 more
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Direct Electrophysiological Mapping of Shape-Induced Affective Perception

Neural Plasticity, 2018
Visual information may convey different affective valences and induce our brain into different affective perceptions. Many studies have found that unpleasant stimuli could produce stronger emotional effects than pleasant stimuli could. Although there has
Yingli Li, Qingguo Ding, Yuancun Zhao, Yanan Bu, Xiaoyan Tang, Peiguo Wang, Genhua Zhang, Mengling Chen, Pei Liang   +8 more
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Direct Teacher Corrective Feedback in EFL Writing Class at Higher Education: What Students Perceive

Vision: Journal for Language and Foreign Language Learning, 2020
The study is aimed at describing the students’ perception of direct teacher corrective feedback in a foreign language writing class. It is descriptive quantitative research, employing questionnaires and observation as research instruments, which was ...
Sabarun Sabarun
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In Defense of the Direct Perception of Affordances

CoRR, 2015
The field of functional recognition or affordance estimation from images has seen a revival in recent years. As originally proposed by Gibson, the affordances of a scene were directly perceived from the ambient light: in other words, functional properties like sittable were estimated directly from incoming pixels.
David F. Fouhey, Xiaolong Wang 0004, Abhinav Gupta 0001   +2 more
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Effectiveness of Resistance Intradialytic Exercise Compared to Aerobic Intradialytic Exercise for Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Patients with chronic kidney disease undergoing hemodialysis commonly experience reduced physical function, fatigue, poor sleep quality, and impaired health‐related quality of life. Intradialytic exercise has been proposed as a non‐pharmacological strategy to improve these outcomes.
Klebson da Silva Almeida, Gisela Cristiane Miyamoto, Daniel da Costa Torres, Ian Setubal Reis Chaves, Jonas do Carmo Paschoalin, Braúlio Lima Nascimento, Luciana Dias Chiavegato   +6 more
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