This paper presents a first study in which a recently reported intermodal perceptual illusion known as the rubber hand illusion is experimentally investigated under mediated conditions. When one’s own hand is placed out of view and a visible fake hand is repeatedly stroked and tapped in synchrony with the unseen hand, subjects report a strong sense in which the fake hand is experienced as part ...

In many competitive sports, players try to deceive their opponents about their behavioral intentions by using specific body movements or postures called fakes. For example, fakes are performed in basketball when a player gazes in one direction but passes or shoots the ball in another direction to avert efficient defense actions. The present study aimed to identify the cognitive processes that u...

Fake news detection has received much attention since the 2016 United States Presidential election, where election outcomes are thought to have been influenced by the unregulated abundance of fake news articles. The recently released Fake News Challenge (FNC) aims to address the fake news problem by decomposing the problem into distinct NLP tasks, the first of which is stance detection. We empl...

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) were intuitively and attractively explained under the perspective of game theory, wherein two involving parties are a discriminator and a generator. In this game, the task of the discriminator is to discriminate the real and generated (i.e., fake) data, whilst the task of the generator is to generate the fake data that maximally confuses the discriminator....

Fake followers are those Twitter accounts specifically created to inflate the number of followers of a target account. Fake followers are dangerous for the social platform and beyond, since they may alter concepts like popularity and influence in the Twittersphere—hence impacting on economy, politics, and society. In this paper, we contribute along different dimensions. First, we review some of...

The representation of body parts holds a special status in the brain, due to their prototypical shape and the contribution of multisensory (visual and somatosensory-proprioceptive) information. In a previous study (Sposito et al., 2010), we showed that patients with left unilateral spatial neglect exhibit a rightward bias in setting the midpoint of their left forearm, which becomes larger when ...

In his 1974 thesis, Martin Scharlemann constructed a fake homotopy equivalence from a closed smooth manifold f : Q → S3 × S1#S2 × S2, and asked the question whether or not the manifold Q itself is diffeomorphic to S3 × S1#S2 × S2. Here we answer this question affirmatively. In [Sc] Scharlemann showed that if Σ3 is the Poincaré homology 3-sphere, by surgering the 4-manifold Σ× S, along a loop in...