Infants' memories are highly specific to their training stimuli; they rarely transfer learned responding. In two experiments, we asked whether sensory preconditioning facilitates the transfer of deferred imitation. In Experiments 1A and 1B, 6-month-olds were simultaneously preexposed to Puppets A and B and then saw target actions modeled on Puppet A. The infants associated the paired puppets an...

This work will explore the discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DG-FEM) for solving acoustic wave equations in heterogeneous material. High order convergence of DG-FEM will be verified by examples. The numerical error using DG-FEM has the same components as using finite-difference method: grid dispersion and misalignment between numerical grids and material interfaces. Both error compo...

The optical dispersive prism is a well-studied element, which allows separating white light into its constituent spectral colors, and stands in nature as water droplets. In analogy to this definition, the acoustic dispersive prism should be an acoustic device with capability of splitting a broadband acoustic wave into its constituent Fourier components. However, due to the acoustical nature of ...

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The study investigated the effect of observational goals (i.e., impression formation and memory) on the process of observing ongoing behavior of others. Specifically, the amount of behavior extraction was studied. Forty-nine subjects were randomly assigned to impression and memory groups, and asked to watch a ten-minute video clip featuring a male actor in daily activities. The subjects in the ...

This contribution reports the results of the SHREC 2008 track on Stability on Watertight Models. This track saw six registrations of which only three participants effectively sent the results of their runs.

Four experiments investigated whether and how interpolated faces cause impairment to memories for related target faces. Participants viewed target faces and then saw a presentation of interpolated faces that were related to some of the targets. Modified tests, which offered target and novel faces as recognition alternatives, detected impairment effects after short retention intervals but not af...

NOMAD is an experiment searching for ; (e) oscillations in the CERN Wide Band Neutrino Beam. After its completion (August 1995), the detector has performed according to expectations and has been taking data since. A preliminary analysis, based upon the event sample collected in 1995, saw no evidence for oscillations, thus setting an upper limit in the mixing angle for high m 2

We discuss constraints on the right-handed Majorana mass scale MR of the SUSY see-saw model in the mSUGRA framework. The sensitivity of radiative lepton-flavor violating decays on MR is compared with the reach in lepton-flavor violating channels at a future linear collider.