Related perceptual, motor, and cognitive performances were examined to reveal the accuracy of the properties of action spontaneously represented when mentally simulating moving one's hand. The kinematic configuration of the body represented and transformed in mental simulations was not fixed or canonical but corresponded to one's current configuration. Mental simulation time mimicked movement t...

Delayed matching to sample is typically a two-alternative forced-choice procedure with two sample stimuli. In this task the effects of varying the probability of reinforcers for correct choices and the resulting receiver operating characteristic are symmetrical. A version of the task where a sample is present on some trials and absent on others is analogous to a yes/no recognition task. We desc...

This paper introduces a robust, real-time system for detecting driver lane changes. Under the framework of a “mind-tracking architecture,” the system simulates a set of possible driver intentions and their resulting behaviors using an approximation of a rigorous and validated model of driver behavior. The system compares these simulations with a driver’s actual observed behavior, thus inferring...

In this paper, we describe a new methodology to separate photographs and computer generated images . We introduce the Progressive Randomization (PR) technique that captures the statistical properties of each one of these classes. Using only statistical descriptors of the least significant bit (LSB) occurrences, our method already performs as well or better than some comparable existing techniqu...

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2009: 35(3) Lovers throughout the ages One of the great fascinations of the study of medical history is the personalities that emerge from documents and manuscripts. When I ask a group to name a really famous lover from the pages of history, the cry “Casanova” heads the list virtually every time and, on some occasions, ends with him. There is a great gap bet...

I explore implementation of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence’s clinical guidelines for schizophrenia at an individual practitioner level and at an organisational level. Integrating effective individual and team approaches into a systematic organisational approach with collaborative working between managers, clinicians and service users will be essential to successful implementatio...

purpose despite the acknowledged impact of imagery on performance, ecologically sound studies investigating imagery and its effects on performance subcomponents in real games are surprisingly limited. the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of imagery training on passing improvement in elite soccer players. methods sixty nine soccer players taking part in the national championship ...

This study examined profiles of nonresidential father engagement (i.e., support to the adolescent, contact frequency, remarriage, relocation, and interparental conflict) with their adolescent children (N = 156) 6 to 8 years following divorce and the prospective relation between these profiles and the psychosocial functioning of their offspring, 9 years later. Parental divorce occurred during la...