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Two cultural processing asymmetries drive spatial attention

Cultural routines, such as reading and writing direction (script direction), channel attention orientation. Depending on one's native language habit, attention is biased from left-to-right (LR) or from right-to-left (RL). Here, we further document this bias, as it interacts with the spatial directionality that grounds time concepts. We used a spatial cueing task to test whether script direction and the groundin...

The effect of simultaneously presented words and auditory tones on visuomotor p...

The experiment reported here used a variation of the spatial cueing task to examine the effects of unimodal and bimodal attention-orienting primes on target identification latencies and eye gaze movements. The primes were a nonspatial auditory tone and words known to drive attention consistent with the dominant writing and reading direction, as well as introducing a semantic, temporal bias (past–future) on the ...

Using Structural Health Monitoring to estimate the remaining lifetime due to fa...

A monitorização dinâmica na estimativa da vida útil à fadiga de um condutor de ...

Estimation of the remaining lifetime due to fatigue at of a cable conductor usi...

Asymmetric practices of reading and writing shape visuospatial attention and di...

Movement is generally conceived of as unfolding laterally in the writing direction that one is socialized into. In ‘Western’ languages, this is a left-to-right bias contributing to an imbalance in how attention is distributed across space. We propose that the rightward attentional bias exercises an additional unidirectional influence on discrimination performance thus shaping the congruency effect typically obs...

Monocular trail detection and tracking aided by visual SLAM for small unmanned ...

This article addresses the navigation problem of small and medium-sized unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) built to perform missions in forest environments (e.g., search and rescue) by exploiting the presence of natural or man-made paths, typically present in this type of environments. The proposed system extends a previous monocular-based technique for trail detection and tracking so as to take into account volum...

Social Inferences from faces as a function of the left-to-right movement continuum

We examined whether reading and writing habits known to drive agency perception also shape the attribution of other agency-related traits, particularly for faces oriented congruently with script direction (i.e., left-to-right). Participants rated front-oriented, left-oriented and right-oriented faces on 14 dimensions. These ratings were first reduced to two dimensions, which were further confirmed with a new sa...

Bone reconstruction and optic functional restoration after fronto-orbital fibro...

Made available in DSpace on 2018-12-11T16:39:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2014-10-18; Introduction Fibrous dysplasia (FD) is a non-neoplastic developmental hamartomatous disease of the bone in which fibrous tissue gradually expands and replaces normal bone. Case Report An 11-year-old female presented to our maxillofacial service with progressive disturbance of visual acuity and diplopia ...

A cooperative multi-robot team for the surveillance of shipwreck survivors at sea

The sea as a very extensive area, renders difficult a pre-emptive and long-lasting search for shipwreck survivors. The operational cost for deploying manned teams with such proactive strategy is high and, thus, these teams are only reactively deployed when a disaster like a shipwreck has been communicated. To reduce the involved financial costs, unmanned robotic systems could be used instead as background surve...