We test 12 individuals with congenital prosopagnosia (CP), who replicate a common pattern of showing severe difficulty in recognising facial identity in conjunction with normal recognition of facial expressions (both basic and 'social'). Strength of holistic processing was examined using standard expression composite and identity composite tasks. Compared to age- and sex-matched controls, group...

Holistic, (global) processing refers to the integration of local stimulus features into a larger perceptual form with an interpretation independent of its parts. While global precedence is the norm for adults, infants’ perception depends greatly upon individual differences. Using a novel auditory AX-CPT (AX Continuous Performance Task) this study examined congruence between auditory and visual ...

This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 15081 “Holistic Scene Understanding”. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and ideas are put together in this paper. The first section descri...

The field of holistic medicine is in need of a scientific approach. We need holistic medicine--and we even need it to be spiritual to include the depths of human existence--but we need it to be a little less "cosmic" in order to encompass the whole human being. Many important research questions and challenges, empirical as well as theoretical, demand the attention from medical researchers. Like...

Empirical research has shown that selecting an inappropriate system is a major reason for ERP implementation failures. Review of literature has identified a need for methodologies that assist organisations in the ERP system and vendor selection process. This paper therefore proposes a methodology that differs from existing models in that it that has a broader, more holistic focus by simultaneou...

Classification is the grouping of objects according to their characteristics. Scientists use classification system to organize information into logically related chunks so that it will be easy to analyze and evaluate. There are various classification techniques ranging from simple techniques such as Rule based and Nearest-Neighbour classifiers to more advanced techniques such as Support Vector ...

The holistic education movement does not have a single source, a predominant proponent, or a major form of expression. Consequently, it is difficult to define holistic education. However, there are a number of values and perceptions that most schools claiming to be holistic would embrace, and today I would like to mention some of these values and look especially at what gave rise to their popul...

The thought behind this is that there are many belief-forming processes, some reliable and some not; those that are reliable yield justified beliefs. Though this is how Reliabilism is often formulated today, and is similar to how Alvin Goldman ([1979]) initially formulates the view, a more sophisticated rule-based version of the theory is offered by Goldman in Epistemology and Cognition ([1986]...

The leading causes of mortality in adolescents continue to be accidents, homicide, suicide, sexually transmitted infections, teen pregnancy, eating disorders and drug abuse related mortality. All these causes are preventable and primarily due to risk taking behaviors related to the developmental stage of adolescents. The same risk taking behaviors are also leading causes of morbidity. In many i...