When we imagine a train snaking through a desert, does information about the train’s speed make it into our visual mental image? In this paper, we make use of the motion aftereffect illusion (MAE) to test whether the speed of imagined visual motion modulates transfer of adaptation to a subsequent visual motion discrimination task. We compared the effects of viewing slow, medium, and fast motion...

Affordances, in the context of comics, connote to the general attributes of the medium such as temporality, spatiality, gestures, tone/handwriting and economy. Although comics evinces a dynamic relationship among these elements, it is possible to delineate functional and rhetorical role of these affordances on a conceptual and technical level. Taking these cues, the paper after briefly reviewin...

PURPOSE (1) to evaluate objectively changes in cognitive function and electrophysiologic characteristics associated with hypothyroidism of varying severity and duration in primarily older persons; (2) to determine whether these changes are reversible when a euthyroid state has been attained after treatment with thyroid hormone. SUBJECTS AND METHODS We enrolled 54 non-demented hypothyroid pati...

BACKGROUND Normal reading requires eye guidance and activation of lexical representations so that words in text can be identified accurately. However, little is known about how the visual content of text supports eye guidance and lexical activation, and thereby enables normal reading to take place. METHODS AND FINDINGS To investigate this issue, we investigated eye movement performance when r...

Crystal balls are generally considered as a medium to perform divination or fortune-telling. These imaginations are mainly from some fantasy films and fictions, in which an augur can see into past, present, or future through a crystal ball. With the different impressions, crystal ball has revealed itself a perfect interface for the users to access and to manipulate visual media in an intuitive,...