We have recently shown in Finnish speakers that articulation of certain vowels and consonants has a systematic influence on simultaneous grasp actions as well as on forward and backward hand movements. Here we studied whether these effects generalize to another language, namely Czech. We reasoned that if the results generalized to another language environment, it would suggest that the effects ...

In 3 experiments the role of mediators in task switching with transparent and nontransparent cues was examined. Subjects switched between magnitude (greater or less than 5) and parity (odd or even) judgments of single digits. A cue-target congruency effect indicated mediator use: subjects responded faster to congruent cue-target combinations (e.g., ODD-3) than to incongruent cue-target combinat...

Behavioral studies of spoken word memory have shown that context congruency facilitates both word and source recognition, though the level at which context exerts its influence remains equivocal. We measured event-related potentials (ERPs) while participants performed both types of recognition task with words spoken in four voices. Two voice parameters (i.e., gender and accent) varied between s...

The theory of phase congruency is that features such as step edges, roofs, and deltas always reach the maximum phase of image harmonic components. We propose a modified algorithm of phase congruency to detect image features based on two-dimensional (2-D) discrete Hilbert transform. Windowing technique is introduced to locate image features in the algorithm. Local energy is obtained by convoluti...

Brand placement in videogames consists integrating various brands that are not intrusive to give a feeling of reality the context, as such increasing awareness and recognition brand mind consumer. The goal this study is ascertain if position, familiarity congruency influence memorization presented racing videogame. An experimental design 2 (position: prominent or subtle) × (congruency: yes no) ...

Abstract Previous research has shown that bilinguals process nouns have the same grammatical gender in their two languages faster than differ between L1 and L2. This finding, referred to as congruency effect, so far only been documented Hence, aim of present study was examine whether late unbalanced would also show effects L1. To end, 44 Polish/L2 German were tested a decision task Polish, whic...

Making recognition more reliable under uncontrolled lighting conditions is one of the most important challenges for practical face recognition systems. Other recognition systems don’t nullify most of the lighting variations. We tackle this by combining the strengths of robust illumination normalization, local texture-based face representations, distance transform based matching and kernel based...

Evolution of organismal complexity and origin of novelties during vertebrate history has been widely explored in context of both regulation of gene expression and gene duplication events. Ohno (1970) for the first time put forward the idea of two rounds whole genome duplication events as the most plausible explanation for evolutionarizing the vertebrate lineage (2R hypothesis). To test the vali...

Identification and localization of bone surfaces in ultrasound (US) images is an essential step in US-based image guided orthopedic procedures. However, US images often depict bones poorly compared to other medical imaging modalities, such as computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance (MR), because of speckle, reverberation, shadowing and other artifacts. As a result, accurate, robust and a...