It is extraordinarily difficult to recognize a face in an image with negated contrast, as in a photographic negative. The variation among faces can be partitioned into two general sources: (a) shape and (b) surface reflectance, here termed `pigmentation'. To determine whether negation differentially affects the processing of shape or pigmentation, we made two sets of faces where the individual ...

Negation of clinical named entities is common in clinical documents and is a crucial factor to accurately compile patients' clinical conditions and to further support complex phenotype detection. In 2009, Mayo Clinic released the clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES), which includes a negation annotator that identifies negation status of a named entity by searching for...

Male movements serve as courtship signals in many animal species, and may honestly reflect the genotypic and/or phenotypic quality of the individual. Attractive human dance moves, particularly those of males, have been reported to show associations with measures of physical strength, prenatal androgenization and symmetry. Here we use advanced three-dimensional motion-capture technology to ident...

Abstract The paper sketches the state of affairs our understanding postverbal negation. It departs from typological finding that there is a cross-linguistic preference for negator to precede verb. Nevertheless, sizable proportion world’s languages adhere pattern with following verb, and such negators are typically morphologically bound. existence this pattern, unfavorable functional perspective...