This experiment exposed a sample of U.S. undergraduates (43 men, 40 women) to suggestively or conservatively clad virtual females who exhibited either responsive, high eye gaze or nonresponsive, low gaze in an immersive virtual environment. Outside the virtual world, men and women who encountered a highly stereotypical character—a suggestively clad, high gaze agent (“vamp”) or conservatively cl...

Knowlegde about stereotypical activities like visiting a restaurant or checking in at the airport is an important component to model text-understanding. We report on a case study of automatically relating texts to scripts representing such stereotypical knowledge. We focus on the subtask of mapping noun phrases in a text to participants in the script. We analyse the effect of various similarity...

We reported the case of a young woman who received an antiepileptic drug after a first possible generalized tonic-clonic seizure with no clear inter-ictal epileptic paroxysms in the routine electroencephalogram. Her stereotypical movements decreased but did not disappear with treatment. Then a diagnosis of PNES was considered by neurologist after witnessing a stereotypical motor episode. While ...

Four studies analyzed how sexual orientation (heterosexual vs. gay) and age categories (young elderly) referring to men are cognitively combined. In Study 1, young gay were judged as more prototypical of than adult or elderly men, while young, adult, heterosexual perceived equally men. 2, stereotyped by rather stereotypical traits, not in terms age. 3, gay-stereotypical orientation. 4, be elder...

BACKGROUND The relationship between behavioral changes and functional decline in frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is not well understood. METHODS Thirty-nine patients (21 behavioral variant FTD [bvFTD], 18 semantic variant primary progressive aphasia [svPPA]) were followed up longitudinally (2-4 years follow-up). Functional (Disability Assessment for Dementia) and behavioral (Cambridge Behaviour...