Chasing elusive targets

Voluntary task switching: chasing the elusive homunculus.

In the voluntary task switching procedure, subjects choose the task to perform on a series of bivalent stimuli, requiring top-down control of task switching. Experiments 1-3 contrasted voluntary task switching and explicit task cuing. Choice behavior showed small, inconsistent effects of external stimulus characteristics, supporting the assumption of top-down control of task choice. Switch cost...

Chasing an elusive target with a mobile robot

New Screen Identifies Elusive MicroRNA Targets

PLoS Biology | http://biology.plosjournals.org Biochemists aren’t much accustomed to seeing their work in the popular press, save for annual coverage of the Nobel prize in chemistry. This year, Roderick MacKinnon was recognized for working out the atomic structure of an ion channel and Peter Agre for discovering that a major protein found in red blood cells functions primarily as a water channe...

Abstract P9. Patient-Physician Disparity in Breast Reconstruction Aesthetic Outcomes: Chasing the Elusive “Great” Result

METHODS: Patients with completed breast reconstructions of all types from 2009–2011 completed BreastQ questionnaires. Postoperative photos were graded by a six member panel using a breast reconstruction-specific aesthetic scale. Scores from the BreastQ domain “satisfaction with breasts” (BrSat) were compared with the photo-based grades (PhotoGr). Patients were categorized: Group 1, BrSat >Photo...

Elusive Knowledge" Elusive Knowledge'

We know a lot. I know what food penguins eat. I know that phones used to ring, but nowadays squeal, when someone calls up. I know that Essendon won the 1993 Grand Final. I know that here is a hand, and here is another. We have all sorts of everyday knowledge, and we have it in abundance. To doubt that would be absurd. At any rate, to doubt it in any serious and lasting way would be absurd; and ...