Emotional stimuli attract spatial attention, sometimes improving perception at their location. But they also can disrupt awareness of targets at their location, a phenomenon known as emotion-induced blindness. Such discrepant findings might reflect the impact of emotional stimuli on different perception mechanisms. We dissociated spatial attention and awareness by investigating the spatial dist...

In human vision, mechanisms specialized for encoding static form can signal the presence of blurred forms trailing behind moving objects. People are typically unaware of these motion-blur signals because other mechanisms signal sharply defined moving forms. When active, these mechanisms can suppress awareness of motion blur. Thus, although discrepant form signals can be produced, human vision u...

Many real-world phenomena can be represented by a spatio-temporal signal: where, when, and how much. Social media is a tantalizing data source for those who wish to monitor such signals. Unlike most prior work, we assume that the target phenomenon is known and we are given a method to count its occurrences in social media. However, counting is plagued by sample bias, incomplete data, and, parad...

Vulnerable plaques are dangerous atherosclerotic lesions that bear a high risk of complications that can lead to heart attacks and strokes. These plaques are known to be chronically inflamed. The vasa vasorum (VV) are microvessels that nourish vessel walls. Proliferation of VV is part of the "response to injury" phenomenon in the process of plaque formation. Recent evidence has shown strong cor...

We propose a general model to study the interplay between spatial dispersal and environment spatiotemporal fluctuations in metapopulation dynamics. An ecological landscape of favorable patches is generated like a Lévy dust, which allows to build a range of patterns, from dispersed to clustered ones. Locally, the dynamics is driven by a canonical model for the time evolution of the population de...

Earthquakes are a complex spatiotemporal phenomenon, the underlying mechanism for which is still not fully understood despite decades of research and analysis. We propose and develop a network approach to earthquake events. In this network, a node represents a spatial location while a link between two nodes represents similar activity patterns in the two different locations. The strength of a l...

The flash-lag effect refers to the phenomenon in which a flash adjacent to a continuously moving object is perceived to lag behind it. To test three previously proposed hypotheses (motion extrapolation, positional averaging, and differential latency), a new stimulus configuration, to which the three hypotheses give different predictions, was introduced. Instead of continuous motion, a randomly ...

We propose a novel mechanism leading to spatiotemporal oscillations in extended systems that does not rely on local bulk instabilities. Instead, oscillations arise from the interaction of two subsystems of different spatial dimensionality. Specifically, we show that coupling a passive diffusive bulk of dimension d with an excitable membrane of dimension d-1 produces a self-sustained oscillatory...

A recent study by Priebe et al., (2006) has shown that a small proportion (27%) of primate directionally selective, complex V1 neurons are tuned for the speed of image motion. In this study, I show that the weighted intersection mechanism (WIM) model, which was previously proposed to explain speed tuning in middle temporal neurons, can also explain the tuning found in complex V1 neurons. With t...

This paper is concerned with the estimation of the motions and the segmentation of the spatial supports of the different layers involved in transparent X-ray image sequences. Classical motion estimation methods fail on sequences involving transparent effects since they do not explicitly model this phenomenon. We propose a method that comprises three main steps: initial blockmatching for two-lay...