"Two Minutes' Difference" reproduced from About Face

About Face

The physician’s general survey is an invaluable method for quickly assessing a patient’s overall health and demeanor. Recent studies in psychology have found that qualities of one’s face—including skin coloration and facial adiposity— are associated with one’s underlying health. Subtle variations in these features can indicate serious health problems but can be detected with the untrained eye. ...

Reminiscences about Difference Schemes

In these notes, I will tell how in 1953–1954 the first version of the “Godunov’s scheme” was invented and how it was modified in the subsequent works by myself (until 1969) and by others at the Institute of Applied Mathematics in Moscow (now named after its founder, academician M. V. Keldish). Parallel to the modifications which I will describe below (Sections 1, 2), other algorithms were being...

Two Minutes to Improve Cardiac Surgery Outcomes.

"Special" About Face Perception?

There is growing evidence that face recognition is "special" but less certainty concerning the way in which it is special. The authors review and compare previous proposals and their own more recent hypothesis, that faces are recognized "holisticaily" (i.e., using relatively less part decomposition than other types of objects). This hypothesis, which can account for a variety of data from exper...

What Difference Reveals About Similarity

Detecting that two images are different is faster for highly dissimilar images than for highly similar images. Paradoxically, we showed that the reverse occurs when people are asked to describe how two images differ--that is, to state a difference between two images. Following structure-mapping theory, we propose that this disassociation arises from the multistage nature of the comparison proce...