Social science research demonstrates that people are drawn to others perceived as similar. We extend this finding to political candidates by comparing the relative effects of candidate familiarity as well as partisan, issue, gender, and facial similarity on voters’ evaluations of candidates. In Experiment One, during the final week of the 2006 Florida gubernatorial race, a national representati...

Current longitudinal image registration methods rely on the assumption that image appearance between time-points remains constant or changes uniformly within intensity classes. This assumption, however, is not valid for magnetic resonance imaging of brain development. Registration methods developed to align images with non-uniform appearance change either (i) locally minimize some global simila...

In this contribution, we propose a method that uses a multilingual framework to validate the relevance of the notion of vector based semantic similarity between texts. The goal is to verify that vector based semantic similarities can be reliably transfered from one language to another. More precisely, the idea is to test whether the relative positions of documents in a vector space associated w...

Self-similarity matrices have become an important tool for visualizing the repetitive structure of a music recording. Transforming an audio data stream into a feature sequence, one obtains a self-similarity matrix by pairwise comparing all features of the sequence with respect to a local cost measure. The basic idea is that similar audio segments are revealed as paths of low cost along diagonal...