Tuning into Places

Tuning into Places

In the human brain, the inferior temporal cortex contains areas that seem to respond selectively to particular types of visual stimuli, such as faces or animals. One such region—the parahippocampal place area, or PPA—responds most strongly to images of places instead of faces, but how this higher-order selectivity is achieved remains unclear. In a new study in PLoS Biology, Rajimehr et al. iden...

Skin cancer diagnosis: shining light into dark places.

© 2013 The Authors. doi: 10.2340/00015555-1567 Journal Compilation © 2013 Acta Dermato-Venereologica. ISSN 0001-5555 Frank Davidoff, the celebrated US physician, has a telling metaphor for medical competence: he likens it to Dark Matter, the material physicists think makes up most of the Universe, and about which we know so little (1). Clinical competence would, in this analogy, be the material...

An Investigation into Virtual Representations of Real Places

1 Aalborg Universitet, Aalborg – Denmark, Computer Vision and Media Technology Laboratory 2 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, School of Computer Science and Engineering 3 Czech Technical University in Prague Centre for Machine Perception (CMP), Department of Cybernetics 4 Napier University, Edinburgh, School of Computing 5 Universität Bremen, Institute for Brain Research 6 Aalborg Uni...

When Windmills Turn Into Giants: The Conundrum of Virtual Places

While many papers may claim that virtual environments have much to gain from architectural and urban planning theory, few seem to specify in any verifiable or falsifiable way, how notions of place and interaction are best combined and developed for specific needs. The following is an attempt to summarize a theory of place for virtual environments and explain both the shortcomings and the advant...

Tuning linear copolymers into protein-specific hosts.