Our ability to perceive many aspects of the human face is so acute that some would propose that we possess specialised face-processing mechanisms. One example of this exquisite performance is our ability to discriminate differences in the lateral separation of the eyes in pairs of otherwise identical facesösee Kemp et al (1990, Perception 19 531 ^ 543). However, we have found that our ability t...

Typical cognitive aging is often defined as aging free of dementia, and yet it does not seem to exclude dementia-related pathology. The most common type of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease (AD) – it is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects multiple cognitive domains, including memory, attention, reasoning, judgment, language, as well as behavior. AD accounts for 60–80% of dementia...

iran’s significant success in implementing family planning (fp) during the past 25 years, has made it a role model in the world. the total fertility rate (tfr) in iran has dropped from 6.5 in 1960 to 1.6 in 2012, which is well below the targeted value of 2.2 for the country. iran’s success story, however, did not merely root in the implementation of fp programs. in other words, families’ strong...

Breaking time structure leads to overestimating model performance, even if the concerns only a single period