Face inversion hinders face processing in adults, while not affecting children in the same way. This fMRI study examines the neural underpinnings of the behavioral face inversion effect (FIE) from childhood to adulthood, and how face-selective regions in the brain may change with development. Adults, children, and teens performed a facial expression decision on upright and inverted face stimuli...

Humans' ability to recognize objects is remarkably robust across a variety of views unless faces are presented upside-down. Whether this face inversion effect (FIE) results from qualitative (distinct mechanisms) or quantitative processing differences (a matter of degree within common mechanisms) between upright and inverted faces has been intensely debated. Studies have focused on preferential ...

Females have been reported to be more 'visually dependent' than males. When aligning a rod in a tilted frame to vertical, females are more influenced by the frame than are males, who align the rod closer to gravity. Do females rely more on visual information at the cost of other sensory information? We compared the subjective visual vertical and the perceptual upright in 29 females and 24 males...

The authors examined spatial frequency (SF) tuning of upright and inverted face identification using an SF variant of the Bubbles technique (F. Gosselin & P. G. Schyns, 2001). In Experiment 1, they validated the SF Bubbles technique in a plaid detection task. In Experiments 2a-c, the SFs used for identifying upright and inverted inner facial features were investigated. Although a clear inversio...

INTRODUCTION There is currently substantial literature to suggest that patients with schizophrenia are impaired on many face-processing tasks. This study investigated the specific effects of configural changes on face recognition in groups of schizophrenia patients. METHODS In Experiment 1, participants identified facial expressions in upright faces and in faces inverted from their upright or...

PURPOSE To compare the dose uniformity of difluprednate ophthalmic emulsion 0.05% (Durezol(®)) with both branded and generic prednisolone acetate ophthalmic suspension 1% under different simulated patient usage conditions. METHODS Drug concentrations of difluprednate emulsion, branded prednisolone acetate suspension (Pred Forte(®)) and generic prednisolone acetate suspension following three s...

OBJECTIVE Incapability in face perception and recognition is one of the main issues in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Event related potential (ERP) studies have revealed controversial insights on autistic brain responses to faces and objects. The current investigation examined the ERP components of young children with ASD compared to a typically developing (TD) group when looking at the uprig...

We study the problem of placing a grasped object on an empty flat surface in upright orientation, such as cup its bottom rather than side. aim to find required rotation that when gripper is opened after makes contact with surface, would be stably placed orientation. iteratively use two neural networks. At every iteration, we convolutional network estimate rotation, which executed by robot, and ...

This study details a modular and general synthesis of a new class of molecules consisting of cruciform pi-systems. The key to synthesizing these molecules was an unprecedented double Staudinger cyclization. Once formed, these rigid compounds assemble into ordered monolayer films on metal and metal oxide surfaces to orient their conjugated, bis-phenyloxazole subunits upright. This surface orient...

We investigated the effects of an electro-tactile vestibular substitution system (EVSS) on upright postural control in 12 unilateral vestibular-defective patients. The underlying principle of this system consists in supplying the user with additional information about his/her head orientation/motion with respect to gravitational vertical, normally provided by the vestibular system, through elec...