Does the influence of close relationships pervade so deeply as to impact visual awareness? Results from two experiments involving heterosexual romantic couples suggest that they do. Female partners from each couple performed a rapid detection task where negative emotional distractors typically disrupt visual awareness of subsequent targets; at the same time, their male partners rated attractive...

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Abstract : Blind channel identi cation and equalization based on second-order statistics by subspace tting and linear prediction have received a lot of attention lately. On the other hand, the use of cyclic statistics in fractionally sampled channels has also raised considerable interest. We propose to use these statistics in subspace tting and linear prediction for (possibly multiuser and mult...

A method, is presented for blind unmixing spectrally resolved fluorescence lifetime images. The method is based on the combined analysis of spectral and lifetime phasors and allows unmixing of up to three components without any prior knowledge. Fractional intensities, spectra and decay curves of the individual components can be extracted with this new technique. The reliability and sensitivity ...

BACKGROUND According to the body-specificity hypothesis, people with different bodily characteristics should form correspondingly different mental representations, even in highly abstract conceptual domains. In a previous test of this proposal, right- and left-handers were found to associate positive ideas like intelligence, attractiveness, and honesty with their dominant side and negative idea...

We used magnitude estimation to determine preferred datato-display mappings, polarities, and psychophysical scaling functions relating perceptual and conceptual data values to underlying acoustic parameters for blind and visually impaired listeners. We compare the resulting scaling functions to previous findings with sighted participants [1]. The findings have implications for the design of fut...

Results: The cumulative number of gadoliniumenhancing MRI lesions during the first 6 months were similar in the -3 fatty acids and placebo groups (median difference, 1; 95% CI, 0 to 3; P=.09). No difference in relapse rate was detected after 6 (median difference, 0; 95% CI, 0 to 0; P=.54) or 24 (median difference, 0; 95% CI, 0 to 0; P=.72) months. The proportion of patients without disability p...

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The National Institute for the Blind, 224 Great Portland Street, London, W.l, which has just issued its report for 1921-2, is now the largest institution of its kind, not only in the United Kingdom, but throughout the world. Its direct work includes a home for blind babies, a juvenile education department, higher education (at Worcester College for Blind Boys and the Chorley Wood College for Bl...