We examined the effectiveness of using 3D, visual, digital representations of human heads and faces (i.e., virtual busts) for person identification. In a series of 11 studies, participants learned a number of human faces from analog photographs. We then crafted virtual busts from those analog photographs, and compared recognition of photographs of the virtual busts to the original analog photog...

Photomosaic arranges many small photographs to represent a large image. Our study applies the photomosaic to a photograph browser CAT. Our implementation displays photomosaic while zooming out, and individual photographs while zooming in. Here, many photograph browsing software displays a set of photographs in the order of their times. To maintain this order of photographs, our photomosaic-like...

In a series of three experiments, we investigated the development of children's understanding of the similarities between photographs and their referents. Based on prior work on the development of analogical understanding (e.g. Gentner & Rattermann, 1991), we suggest that the appreciation of this relation involves multiple levels. Photographs are similar to their referents both in terms of the ...

Photomosaic arranges many small photographs to represent a large image. Our study applies the photomosaic to a photograph browser CAT. Our implementation displays photomosaic while zooming out, and individual photographs while zooming in. Here, many photograph browsing software displays a set of photographs in the order of their times. To maintain this order of photographs, our photomosaic gene...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether access to color fundus photographs from a patient's previous visit would alter the recommendations rendered to a cohort with diabetic retinopathy. PATIENTS AND METHODS One hundred sixty patients with diabetic retinopathy returning for a follow-up visit and who had color fundus photographs obtained at a previous visit were evaluated by trained retina specialists....

This paper outlines one aspect of a study that focused on generating and analysing discursive data in order to explore older women’s constructions of their relationships: the use of personal photographs as a stimulus for ‘purposeful’ conversation. Photographs have been implemented in many ways throughout the social sciences and the approach discussed here was particularly influenced by work tha...

Twenty-four patients with connective tissue diseases and 5 control subjects were studied by “widefield” photography. A total of 44 photographs of the nailfold were sent to the second author (HRM) for “blind” diagnostic interpretation. The scleroderma-dermatomyositis pattern was identified in 17 of 18 photographs of 11 scleroderma patients, and 5 of 5 photographs of 2 dermatomyositis patients. S...

The relationship between mother and baby is of fundamental importance in the development of cognitive function and emotion. In this study we investigated the effects of affective photographs of a mother and baby (crying or smiling faces) and other stimuli (neutral mother or baby faces) on visual cognitive function in schizophrenic patents. We recorded exploratory eye movements in 22 healthy con...

PUBLICATIONS on the history of anesthesia may have an image of a photograph, engraving, or painting of early ether anesthesia in Boston, Massachusetts. Closer inspection of the photographs in various publications reveals that there are five known photographs that were taken in the original amphitheater (now called the Ether Dome) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Four photographs (figs. ...