Adapting to sinusoidal gratings selectively reduces contrast sensitivity to subsequent test stimuli. To investigate the perceptual processes underlying selective adaptation, we developed an external noise plus adaptation paradigm and a theoretical framework based on a noisy observer model (the contrast-gain-control Perceptual Template Model [cgcPTM]). After adapting to a 45 deg, 2-Hz counter-fl...

We investigated the effect of auditory-visual sensory integration on visual tasks that were predominantly dependent on parvocellular processing. These tasks were (i) detecting metacontrast-masked targets and (ii) discriminating orientation differences between high spatial frequency Gabor patch stimuli. Sounds that contained no information relevant to either task were presented before, synchroni...

The coronavirus pandemic forced an immediate transition of education to remote. This affected the students significantly. aim this study is examine level academic burnout in remote learning during pandemic, taking into account personality differences (Big Five traits: conscientiousness, neuroticism; communal orientation) as predictors. difference within two groups was also examined – people rem...

Texture boundary segmentation is typically thought to reflect a comparison of differences in Fourier energy (i.e. low-order texture statistics) on either side of a boundary. However in a previous study (Arsenault, Yoonessi, & Baker, 2011) we showed that the distribution of energy within a natural texture (i.e. its higher-order statistical structure) also influences segmentation of contrast boun...

objective: this study investigated the relationship between resilience and religious orientation (internal and external) with posttraumatic growth (ptg). this study also examined the impact of marriage and sex variables on growth . method: participants were selected based on prescreening of a larger group of students enrolled in the university of shiraz. participants were recruited in two stage...

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a shift to online teaching and learning (OTL) in colleges universities across the globe, requiring teachers adapt their very short time—independent of whether they were prepared. Drawing from an international sample N = 739 higher education 58 countries, present study sheds light on teachers' readiness for OTL at time by (a) identifying teacher profiles...

introduction: in the past 2 decades, research findings established achievement goal theory as a powerful framework for conceptualizing difference in the quality of student’s engagement, persistence on task, and academic resilience. so the present study examined the relationship between achievement goal orientations and academic resilience. method: participants were 606 students (307 girls and 2...

COPD is a chronic disease that has not only a high prevalence and social costs, but is tightly connected to a significant decrease of health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The aim of this study was to evaluate the comparative impact on HRQoL of two psychological factors (self-efficacy, optimism) vs. classical medical determinants (forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1), peak expiratory f...

We study spatial localization in the real subcritical Ginzburg-Landau equation ut = m0u + Q(x)u + uxx + d|u|u − |u|u with spatially periodic forcing Q(x). When d > 0 and Q ≡ 0 this equation exhibits bistability between the trivial state u = 0 and a homogeneous nontrivial state u = u0 with stationary localized structures which accumulate at the Maxwell pointm0 = −3d/16. When spatial forcing is i...