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The visual control of stepping operates in real time: evidence from a pictorial illusion
Experimental Brain Research, 2005Recent studies have suggested important similarities between the visual control of upper and lower limb actions despite the different effectors, time scales, and regions of space associated with the two types of actions. Drawing on previous findings from upper limb studies, we show here that the effect of a Muller-Lyer illusion on stepping amplitude is
Elizabeth M, McCarville +1 more
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Using Religious Art as Pictorial Evidence for Medieval Book History
Book History, 2015Knowledge about the structure and decoration of bindings in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries is largely conjectural as very few examples have survived. The religious art of the period can contain information that may help to address the uncertainties in the historical record. This essay considers the example of when and how the technique of gold
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Prospecting for planets in circumstellar dust: sifting the evidence from β Pictoris
Nature, 1986IRAS and near-IR coronographic data for the A5V star Beta Pic are analyzed for evidence of planetary formation. The light scattered from the central star in the system is integrated along the distance to the star to determine the disk magnitude at various distances from the star.
David J. Diner, John F. Appleby
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History of Photography, 2009
The late nineteenth century saw a mass of photographic projects which harnessed the energies of amateur photographers in making ‘record photographs’. This essay explores the tensions between record photography and the aesthetic aspirations of amateur photographers who participated in the photographic survey movement in England between 1885 and 1918 ...
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The late nineteenth century saw a mass of photographic projects which harnessed the energies of amateur photographers in making ‘record photographs’. This essay explores the tensions between record photography and the aesthetic aspirations of amateur photographers who participated in the photographic survey movement in England between 1885 and 1918 ...
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AV communication review, 1977
Within the past few years, a number of studies have demonstrated that. children's prose-learning performance can be facilitated through the addition of text-relevant illustrations (e.g., Lesgold, Levin, Shimron, & Guttmann, 1975; Rohwer & Harris, 1975; Guttmann, Levin, & Pressley, in press).
Michael D. Ruch, Joel R. Levin
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Within the past few years, a number of studies have demonstrated that. children's prose-learning performance can be facilitated through the addition of text-relevant illustrations (e.g., Lesgold, Levin, Shimron, & Guttmann, 1975; Rohwer & Harris, 1975; Guttmann, Levin, & Pressley, in press).
Michael D. Ruch, Joel R. Levin
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Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 1982
In reconstructing early uses of psychotogens in Mesoamerica, mushrooms have occupied the attention of botanists and anthropologists almost the exclusion of other plant motifs. Not all the images and literary fragments extant lend themselves to mycological interpretation.
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In reconstructing early uses of psychotogens in Mesoamerica, mushrooms have occupied the attention of botanists and anthropologists almost the exclusion of other plant motifs. Not all the images and literary fragments extant lend themselves to mycological interpretation.
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Child Neuropsychology, 2011
This study investigated the effects of stimulus presentation modality on working memory performance in elementary school-age children ages 7-13. The experimental paradigm implemented a multitrial learning task incorporating three presentation modalities: Auditory, Visual, and simultaneous Auditory plus Visual. The first experiment compared the learning
Constantinidou, Fofi +7 more
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This study investigated the effects of stimulus presentation modality on working memory performance in elementary school-age children ages 7-13. The experimental paradigm implemented a multitrial learning task incorporating three presentation modalities: Auditory, Visual, and simultaneous Auditory plus Visual. The first experiment compared the learning
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The Refitting of the Quire of Canterbury Cathedral 1660–1716: Pictorial and Documentary Evidence
Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 2001AbstractIn 1910 W. D. Caroe read a paper to the Society of Antiquaries based on two paintings of Canterbury Cathedral quire. The purchase by the Royal Museum and Art Gallery, Canterbury, of three more paintings of the quire as refurnished after 1660 encouraged an enquiry into relations between these and other contemporary paintings.
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Pictorial evidence from medieval Italy of cheetahs and caracals, and their use in hunting
Archives of Natural History, 2009Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) and caracals (Caracal caracal) have been used for hunting in the Near and the Middle East since antiquity. In Iran and India the caracal was mainly trained for hunting birds, but in Europe this practice was rare, and is documented only in southern Italy and Sicily by iconographic evidence as far back as the eleventh and ...
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Pictorial Evidence for the History of Horse-Riding in Iraq before the Kassite Period
Iraq, 1970The problems involved in any attempt to elucidate the earliest history of the domesticated horse in the Near East are notorious; an enormous literature already bears witness as much to the popularity as to the complexity of the subject. After over a century's research and argument there is still no certainty, nor even a general agreement, about where ...
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