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Pupil dilation signals uncertainty and surprise in a learning gambling task
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2014 Pupil dilation under constant illumination is a physiological marker which modulation is related to several cognitive functions involved in daily decision making.
Claudio eLavin +6 more
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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 +2 more
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The Value of Surprise in Science
Erkenntnis: An International Journal of Scientific Philosophy, 2021 Scientific results are often presented as ‘surprising’ as if that is a good thing. Is it? And if so, why? What is the value of surprise in science? Discussions of surprise in science have been limited, but surprise has been used as a way of defending the
S. French, A. Murphy
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Facial expressions in response to a highly surprising event exceeding the field of vision: a test of Darwin's theory of surprise [PDF]
, 2012 Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.According to the affect program theory of facial displays, the evolutionary core of the human emotion system consists of a small set of discrete emotion mechanisms that comprise motor programs for ...
Schützwohl, A, Reisenzein, R
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 When performing sequential manual actions (e.g., cooking), visual information is prioritized according to the task determining where and when to attend, look, and act.
Rebecca Martina Foerster
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021 Previous work demonstrates that music with more surprising chords tends to be perceived as more enjoyable than music with more conventional harmonic structures. In that work, harmonic surprise was computed based upon a static distribution of chords. This
Scott A. Miles +8 more
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Surprise election for Trump connections
Journal of Financial Economics, 2020 We exploit Donald Trump’s nonpolitical background and surprise election victory to identify the value of sudden presidential ties among SP received more government contracts; and were less subject to unfavorable regulatory actions.
T. Child +3 more
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A Free Energy Principle for Biological Systems
Entropy, 2012 This paper describes a free energy principle that tries to explain the ability of biological systems to resist a natural tendency to disorder. It appeals to circular causality of the sort found in synergetic formulations of self-organization (e.g., the ...
Friston Karl
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Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2017 BACKGROUND: The surprise question — “Would I be surprised if this patient died in the next 12 months?” — has been used to identify patients at high risk of death who might benefit from palliative care services.
J. Downar +4 more
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Is the market surprised by the surprise? [PDF]
International Journal of Disclosure and Governance, 2020 This study examines how the market reacts to earnings surprises with different characteristics such as future earnings prospects and historical surprises embedded in the earnings announced. We also explore the effect of corporate governance on market reaction to earnings information disseminated through earnings announcements.
Khine Kyaw +2 more
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