In this paper, we propose a novel fuzzy 3D face ethnicity categorization algorithm, which contains two stages, learning and mapping. In learning stage, the visual codes are first learned for both the eastern and western individuals using the learned visual codebook (LVC) method, then from these codes we can learn two distance measures, merging distance and mapping distance. Using the merging di...

Brain imaging techniques allow the mapping of cognitive functions onto neural systems, but also the understanding of mechanisms of human behavior. In a series of imaging studies we have described a minimal neural architecture for imitation. This architecture comprises a brain region that codes an early visual description of the action to be imitated, a second region that codes the detailed moto...

The claim that lexical access for visual words is mandatorily mediated by their phonological codes was investigated. One hundred-four participants performed timed naming responses to pictures while instructed to ignore printed words superimposed on the pictures. Distractor words were either semantically related to the picture label or were homophones of a word semantically related to the pictur...