Special issue : five senses and fibers.(1).Human visual sense.

Special Issue

Special Senses

Premature Delivery to Preserve Sight.? A. E. Adams reports two cases {Annals of Ophthalmology, Oct. 1898), in which premature labour was induced in consequence of rapid failure of vision due to albuminuric retinitis and hemorrhages. The improvement of sight was considerable. An interesting point in one case was that the urine was free from albumen until after the onset of the neuritis. Dr. Adam...

Vision Research special issue on “Visual attention”

This is the first of two parts of a special issue on the topic of ‘‘Visual attention’’. The second part of the special issue, which will be published shortly, will provide a thematic outline of the papers in both parts. The papers presented in this special issue are based on the Third International Workshop in Visual Attention that took place in October 2011 at the University of Allahabad in In...

Medicine and the five senses

attention to Cullen's metaphysics, shared to a great extent with David Hume and Adam Smith, reveals a larger project, the endorsement of learning, enquiry, and progress. Cullen, it might be said, was creating the role of the philosophical doctor as well as that of the philosophical chemist. Gunter Risse is interesting on Cullen as a clinician. Risse shows there were significant differences betw...

Introduction to the special issue on word sense disambiguation

The automatic disambiguation of word senses ha sb e e n an interest and concern since the earliest days of computer treatment of language in the 1950s. Sense disambiguation is an "intermediate task" (Wilks and Stevenson 1996), which is not an end in itself, but rather is necessary at one level or another to accomplish most natural language processing tasks. It is obviously essential for languag...