Attachment theory refers to the relationships individuals develop with caregivers or significant others in their lives. Specifically, adult attachment is concerned with the bond that develops between romantic partners, as categorized by four different adult attachment styles: Secure, Preoccupied, Dismissing, and Fearful. This study seeks to examine the role that adult attachment style might pla...

The computer vision community and industry have made great progress on face detection and recognition. The current popular approaches are now mostly based on single image analysis using sliding detection windows and boosted classifiers. They work impressively well for frontal face images. However, there are many more adjuvant application areas for facial analysis if we are able to accurately lo...

OBJECTIVE To determine the degree of facial asymmetry required to trigger conscious perception in the observer in a simulated model of facial paralysis. METHODS A model of unilateral facial paralysis was created using the face of a participant without facial paralysis. Digital morphing software was used to create progressive asymmetry of the brow, oral commissure, and combined brow and oral c...

An adaptive speaker identification system which employs both audio and visual cues is proposed in this work for movie content analysis. Specifically, a likelihood-based approach is first applied for speaker identification using pure speech data, and techniques such as face detection/recognition and mouth tracking are applied for talking face recognition using pure visual data. These two informa...

Social threat captures attention and is processed rapidly and efficiently, with many lines of research showing involvement of the amygdala. Visual search paradigms looking at social threat have shown angry faces 'pop-out' in a crowd, compared to happy faces. Autism and Asperger Syndrome (AS) are neurodevelopmental conditions characterised by social deficits, abnormal face processing, and amygda...

INTRODUCTION  Anthropometric proportions and symmetry are considered determinants of beauty. These parameters have significant importance in facial plastic surgery, particularly in rhinoplasty. As the central organ of the face, the nose is especially important in determining facial symmetry, both through the perception of a crooked nose and through the determination of facial growth. The evalua...

Brain activation and functional connectivity were investigated in high functioning autism using functional magnetic resonance imaging in an n-back working memory task involving photographic face stimuli. The autism group showed reliably lower activation compared with controls in the inferior left prefrontal area (involved in verbal processing and working memory maintenance) and the right poster...

The fossil coralline fl ora of the Badenian bioclastic limestone outcropping in Northern Croatia is known by the name “Litavac”, shortened from “Lithothamnium Limestone”. The name was given to indicate that unidentifi ed coralline algae are the major component. In this fi rst contribution to the knowledge of the coralline fl ora of the Litavac, Lithothamnion valens seems to be the most common s...