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Detecting Core-Periphery Structures by Surprise [PDF]

, 2019
Detecting the presence of mesoscale structures in complex networks is of primary importance. This is especially true for financial networks, whose structural organization deeply affects their resilience to events like default cascades, shocks propagation,
Caldarelli, Guido, de Jeude, Jeroen van Lidth, Squartini, Tiziano   +2 more
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Fact vs. Affect in the Telephone Game: All Levels of Surprise Are Retold With High Accuracy, Even Independently of Facts

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
When people retell stories, what guides their retelling? Most previous research on story retelling and story comprehension has focused on information accuracy as the key measure of stability in transmission.
Fritz Breithaupt, Fritz Breithaupt, Binyan Li, Binyan Li, Torrin M. Liddell, Eleanor B. Schille-Hudson, Eleanor B. Schille-Hudson, Sarah Whaley   +7 more
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Corrugator Activity Confirms Immediate Negative Affect in Surprise

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015
The emotion of surprise entails a complex of immediate responses, such as cognitive interruption, attention allocation to, and more systematic processing of the surprising stimulus.
Sascha eTopolinski, Fritz eStrack
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The Narrative Affordances and Limitations of Internal Focalization for Creating Suspense and Surprise in Persian Detective Novels, A Case Study: Esmail Fassih’s the Falcon and the Owls [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2022
Various types of focalization are important elements in creating suspense and surprise. This study finds use of narrative discourse analysis in order to discover the narrative affordances and limitations of internal focalization for creating suspense and
Reza Nekoei, Kavoos Hassanli, Saeed Hessampour   +2 more
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Surprise, Surprise — A Flying Squirrel! Learning to Protect the Unexpected

Conservation & Society, 2020
Non-human nature is often unpredictable and continues to surprise us. How can we take this into account and use it in ways leading to more robust conservation strategies?
Nina V Nygren, Taru Peltola
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Neural signatures of perceptual inference

eLife, 2016
Generative models, such as predictive coding, posit that perception results from a combination of sensory input and prior prediction, each weighted by its precision (inverse variance), with incongruence between these termed prediction error (deviation ...
William Sedley, Phillip E Gander, Sukhbinder Kumar, Christopher K Kovach, Hiroyuki Oya, Hiroto Kawasaki, Matthew A Howard III, Timothy D Griffiths   +7 more
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Detecting and representing predictable structure during auditory scene analysis

eLife, 2016
We use psychophysics and MEG to test how sensitivity to input statistics facilitates auditory-scene-analysis (ASA). Human subjects listened to ‘scenes’ comprised of concurrent tone-pip streams (sources). On occasional trials a new source appeared partway.
Ediz Sohoglu, Maria Chait
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A narrative review of the interconnection between pilot acute stress, startle, and surprise effects in the aviation context: Contribution of physiological measurements

Frontiers in Neuroergonomics, 2023
Aviation remains one of the safest modes of transportation. However, an inappropriate response to an unexpected event can lead to flight incidents and accidents.
Moussa Diarra, Mauro Marchitto, Marie-Christine Bressolle, Thierry Baccino, Thierry Baccino, Véronique Drai-Zerbib   +5 more
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"We" and "others" according to statements of economic experts in Serbia [PDF]

Sociologija, 2003
This article refers to the scientific and professional relations between Serbian economists and their counterparts from the West. Opinions of Serbian economists about the others and otherness are considered within the context of post socialist ...
Vujović Sreten Đ.
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Language can obscure as well as facilitate apparent-Theory of mind performance: part 1 - An exploratory study with 4 year-Olds using the element of surprise

Cogent Psychology, 2022
Language is integral to children’s Theory of Mind (ToM) development. Here, we also considered whether language emerges as important because tasks assess ToM through language.
Barlow C Wright
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