Emotional responses related to self-perceptions were investigated in healthy college-aged females using a picture-viewing paradigm that consisted of four categories of pictures (pleasant, neutral, unpleasant, and full body pictures of themselves). The startle eye-blink reflex, facial EMG, and self-reported valence, arousal, and dominance measures were recorded for each picture. Startle reflex a...

Recent studies have shown that the late positive component of the event-related-potential (ERP) is enhanced for emotional pictures, presented in an oddball paradigm, evaluated as distant from an established affective context. In other research, with context-free, random presentation, affectively intense pictures (pleasant and unpleasant) prompted similar enhanced ERP late positivity (compared w...

In three experiments, subjects studied photographs presented alone or followed by a descriptive sentence. The sentence provided additional information not available in the picture. Subsequent yes-no recognition tests for the pictures demonstrated better memory for those pictures that had been followed by descriptive sentences. Experiment 1 showed that described pictures were remembered better r...

Picture reranking is helpful for adjusting the presentation of content base picture seeks. In any case, reachable reranking estimations are compelled for two essential drivers: 1) the printed meta-data related with pictures is every now and again opposite with their real picture substance and 2) the uprooted visual highlights don't decisively demonstrate the semantic resemblances among pic...

This introductory talk at the Cosmic Questions conference sponsored by the AAAS summarizes some earlier pictures of the universe and some pictures based on modern physics and cosmology. The uroboros (snake swallowing its tail) is an example of a traditional picture. The Biblical flat-earth picture was very different from the Greek spherical earth-centered picture, which was the standard view un...

We measured Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) and naming times to picture targets preceded by masked words (stimulus onset asynchrony: 80 ms) that shared one of three different types of relationship with the names of the pictures: (1) Identity related, in which the prime was the name of the picture ("socks" - ), (2) Phonemic Onset related, in which the initial segment of the pri...

An obstacle in any Child Pornography (CP) investigation is the investigator’s ability to determine whether the pictures in question have been altered. Because of the court ruling in Ashcroft v. Free Speech, many agents are asked on the stand if they can prove the pictures they recovered were altered in any way. If the picture doesn’t match any known CP hashes, then it can be very difficult to p...

We study a queueing system having a mixture of a special semi-Markov process (SSMP) and a Poisson process as the arrival process, where the Poisson arrival is regarded as interfering traffic. It is shown by numerical examples that the SSMP customers receive worse treatment than Poisson customers, i.e., the mean waiting time of SSMP customers is longer than that of Poisson customers. We also pro...

The authors investigated two retrieval-monitoring processes. Subjects studied red words and pictures and then decided whether test words had been studied in red font (red word test) or as pictures (picture test). Memory confusions were lower on the picture test than on the red word test, implicating a distinctiveness heuristic. Memory confusions also were lower when study formats were mutually ...

This paper explains how a form of picture retrieval can be used to allow a document generation system to include pictures in generated documents. The exposition is based on the What You See Is What You Meant (WYSIWYM) approach to document generation [Power and Scott, 1998]. The approach outlined in the paper makes use of a library of pictures, each of which is associated with a WYSIWYM-generate...