Individuals with autism often show a fragmented way of perceiving their environment, suggesting a disorder of information integration, possibly due to disrupted communication between brain areas. We investigated thirteen individuals with high-functioning autism (HFA) and thirteen healthy controls using the metastable motion quartet, a stimulus consisting of two dots alternately presented at fou...

Horizontal, vertical, and over-all size differences were introduced in the retinal images of the two eyes of normal subjects during brief presentations of simple foveal targets. Horizontal disparities, whether accompanied by vertical disparities or not, induced the appearance of a rotation of the target around a vertical axis out of the frontal plane, according to the expectation from geometry,...

Today’s landscape of robotics is dominated by vertical integration where single vendors develop the final product leading to slow progress, expensive products and customer lockin. Opposite to this, an horizontal integration would result in a rapid development of cost-effective mass-market products with an additional consumer empowerment. The transition of an industry from vertical integration t...

To investigate the development of motion integration in infants, we used an eye movement technique to measure subjects' ability to track leftward versus rightward pattern motion in a stimulus consisting of a field of spatially segregated moving gratings. Each grating moved in one of two oblique directions, with the two directions interleaved across the display. When spatially integrated, patter...

In 2012, with solely institutional support, the University of Cincinnati officially launched its Center for Integrative Health and Wellness, focused on developing integrative medicine clinical, research, and education initiatives horizontally across the academic health center. Given that Integrative Medicine (IM) is intrinsically interdisciplinary, the UC Center purposively functions according ...

Object perception and pattern vision depend fundamentally upon the extraction of contours from the visual environment. In adulthood, contour or edge-level processing is supported by the Gestalt heuristics of proximity, collinearity, and closure. Less is known, however, about the developmental trajectory of contour detection and contour integration. Within the physiology of the visual system, lo...

Available online 15 January 2014 To speed up strategic alliance in R&D activities, different forms of R&D organization structures can be summarized into different roles including the input-oriented, the output-oriented, and the matrix organization structure. Themost commonmode of strategic alliance consists of horizontal and vertical integrations. However, the study adopting absorptive capacity...

As organizations continue to manage growth by developing a diverse portfolio of products and services in semiautonomous business units, they become increasingly fragmented internally. Such fragmentation results in highly diversified business processes for performing similar activities, leading to reduced operational efficiency, coordination, and information sharing. Horizontal business process ...