This paper presents a study of visual perception through the application eye-tracking prehistoric ceramics. The is feasible methodology to understand agency material culture quantitative techniques, which allows for analyses possible relationships between visual-perceptual behaviour, and social complexity. In particular, horizontality gaze shown be associated with pottery from early periods its...

Historically, the concepts of field-independence, closure flexibility, and weak central coherence have been used to denote a locally, rather globally, dominated perceptual style. To date, there has been little attempt to clarify the relationship between these constructs, or to examine the convergent validity of the various tasks purported to measure them. To address this, we administered 14 tas...

Evidence exists that individuals possess habitual ways of approaching tasks and situations associated with particular patterns in cognitive processes including decision making, problem solving, perception, and attention. Such approaches are conceptualized as cognitive style, a concept first formally introduced by Allport almost eight decades ago and defined as an individual's typical or habitua...

Auditory speech is difficult to discern in degraded listening conditions, however the addition of visual speech can improve perception. The Perceptual Assimilation Model [1] suggests that non-native contrasts involving a native phonological difference (two-category assimilation) should be discriminated more accurately than those involving a phonetic goodness-offit difference (category-goodness ...

This study examined the effects of speaking style on the perceptual learning of novel voices in the laboratory. Listeners participated in a voice learning experiment. In the training phase, listeners were asked to learn the names of either seven male or seven female talkers from samples of citation or hyperarticulated speech. In the test phase, listeners were presented with the same stimuli as ...

Musicians' skills in auditory processing depend highly on instrument, performance practice, and on level of expertise. Yet, it is not known though whether the style/genre of music might shape auditory processing in the brains of musicians. Here, we aimed at tackling the role of musical style/genre on modulating neural and behavioral responses to changes in musical features. Using a novel, fast ...

Young and colleagues (e.g. Young, A. W., & Leafhead, K. M. (1996). Betwixt life and death: case studies of the Cotard delusion. In P. W. Halligan & J. C. Marshall (Eds.), Method in madness: Case studies in cognitive neuropsychiatry. Mahway, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.) have suggested that cases of the Cotard delusion (the belief that one is dead) result when a particular perceptual anomaly...

Painting with Interactive Control of Perceptual Entropy MINGTIAN ZHAO and SONG-CHUN ZHU, University of California, Los Angeles and Lotus Hill Institute In this article, we study a framework for generating abstract art from photographs. The aesthetics of abstract art, as a special category of visual arts, is largely attributed to its greater perceptual ambiguity than photographs. According to ps...

We present an extremely simple Ultra-Resolution Style Transfer framework, termed URST, to flexibly process arbitrary high-resolution images (e.g., 10000x10000 pixels) style transfer for the first time. Most of existing state-of-the-art methods would fall short due massive memory cost and small stroke size when processing ultra-high resolution images. URST completely avoids problem caused by (1)...

This experiment extended work done previously in our laboratory to develop a method to elicit from talkers three different speaking styles, reduced, citation, and hyperarticulated, using controlled materials in a laboratory setting. In the initial experiment, the reduced style was elicited by having subjects read a sentence while carrying out a distractor task that involved recalling a fixed nu...