Health messages framed to be congruent with individuals' approach/avoidance motivations have been found to be more effective in promoting health behaviors than health messages incongruent with approach/avoidance motivations. This study examines the processes underlying this congruency effect. Participants (undergraduate students, N = 67) completed a measure of approach/avoidance orientation (th...

We measured eye movements as people read short stories. The target sentences contained noun/verb homographs (e.g. “duck”) and were preceded by a biasing context sentence. The homograph in the target sentence was always disambiguated by a case-marked pronoun: e.g., “She saw his/him duck.” Lexical bias effects (reflecting the relative frequency of the noun and verb forms) were found in the initia...

Conceptual metaphor congruency effects have been interpreted as evidence for the notion that the representation of abstract conceptual dimensions (e.g., power, evaluation) rests on more concrete dimensions (e.g., space, brightness). However, an alternative account based on the notion of polarity correspondence has recently received empirical support from studies about the mapping between affect...

The analytic signal is one of the most capable approaches in onedimensional signal processing. Two-dimensional signal theory suffers from the absence of an isotropic extension of the analytic signal. Accepting the fact that there is no odd filter with isotropic energy in higher dimensions, one tried to circumvent this drawback using the one-dimensional quadrature filters with respect to several...

Streak/ring/motion artifacts, unequal distribution of the intravenously injected contrast agent and the partial volume effect lead to significant differences in brightness and contrast between CTA datasets or even between slices of the same dataset. These issues affecting the segmentation of fine structures such as the aortic dissection membrane can be efficiently addressed only by applying a m...

A novel feature selection strategy to improve the recognition accuracy on the faces that are affected due to nonuniform illumination, partial occlusions and varying expressions is proposed in this paper. This technique is applicable especially in scenarios where the possibility of obtaining a reliable intra-class probability distribution is minimal due to fewer numbers of training samples. Phas...