It has been argued that visual subliminal processing of face-inherent sex information might depend on the retino-collicular projection. In the current study, we tested this possibility. Based on the known exclusive sensitivity of the retino-collicular projection for low spatial frequencies (LSF), we derived the following predictions. First, masked and, therefore, subliminal high-spatial frequen...

Novel words can be recalled immediately and after little exposure, but require a post-learning consolidation period to show word-like behaviour such as lexical competition. This pattern is thought to reflect a qualitative shift from episodic to lexical representations. However, several studies have reported immediate effects of meaningful novel words on semantic processing, suggesting that inte...

Numerous studies have reported neurophysiological effects of semantic priming in electroencephalography (EEG) and in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Because of differing methodological constraints, the comparability of the observed effects remains unclear. To directly compare EEG and fMRI effects and neural sources of semantic priming, we conducted a semantic word-picture priming ...

Two cross-modal priming experiments investigated whether the representation of either an initial- or a final-embedded word may be activated when the longer carrier word is auditorily presented. Visual targets were semantically related either to the embedded word or to the carrier word or they were unrelated to the primes. A priming effect was found for semantic associates of the carrier word in...

This paper presents work in progress on a machine learning method for classification of morphosemantic relations between verb and noun synsets. The training data comprises 5,584 verb–noun synset pairs from the Bulgarian WordNet, where the morphosemantic relations were automatically transferred from the Princeton WordNet morphosemantic database. The machine learning is based on 4 features (verb ...

For example, all the Fermat primes are evil while all the Mersenne primes > 3 are odious. Using direct calculations up to 10 we noticed that among the primes not exceeding n the evil primes are never in majority except for the cases n = 5 and n = 6. Moreover, in the considered limits the excess of the odious primes is not monotone but increases on the whole with records on primes 2, 13, 41, 67,...

All large odd natural numbers are the sum of two squares primes, a cube prime, biquadrate, fifth, sixth, and seventh power, all primes.