The aim of the present study was to explore the holistic processing of the human body shape. Composite illusion is used as a marker to demonstrate face holistic processing. Previous studies showed that adults find it difficult to name the top half of a familiar face when it has been aligned with the bottom half of a different face compared with misaligned condition. The current study aimed to e...

In studying holistic face processing across the life-span there are only few attempts to separate face-specific from general aging effects. Here we used the complete design of the composite paradigm (Cheung et al., 2008) with faces and novel non-face control objects (watches) to investigate composite effects in young (18-32 years) and older adults (63-78 years). We included cueing conditions to...

Holistic processing, a hallmark of face processing, can be measured by the composite face effect: adults have difficulty recognising the top half of a face when it is aligned with a new bottom half, unless holistic processing is disrupted by misaligning the two halves. Like the recognition of facial identity, holistic processing is impaired when faces are inverted. To obtain a more refined meas...

We previously reported the preparation of a self-assembled chitin nanofiber (CNF) film via regeneration from an ion gel with an ionic liquid, followed by sonication and filtration. Based on the finding that CNFs were redispersed in a mixture of the film with ammonia aqueous solution (aq.), in this study, CNF-natural rubber (NR) composite sheets were fabricated by mixing redispersed CNF with NR ...

We report three experiments in which we investigated the effect of rigid facial motion on face processing. Specifically, we used the face composite effect to examine whether rigid facial motion influences primarily featural or holistic processing of faces. In Experiments 1-3, participants were first familiarized with dynamic displays in which a target face turned from one side to another; then ...

Molecular mechanics and dynamic simulations at atomistic scale were used to investigate the mechanical behavior of the graphene based chitosan (CS) composite with different reinforcing agent content. The improvement of the Young’s moduli depends on dispersion mode and interface interaction between the graphene sheets and the polymer matrix. The elastic moduli of the composite increased with inc...

In this work, geometrically nonlinear behavior of sandwich composite beams reinforced by carbon nanotubes is studied, taking into account the influence agglomeration (CNTs). The core homogeneous while two face sheets are made CNT with effective material properties being estimated Eshelby-Mori-Tanaka approach. A first-order shear deformable beam element formulated in context total Lagrange formu...

When the electrically thin unit cell of a laminated composite material is made of two bianisotropic sheets whose constitutive properties in the thickness direction are decoupled from the constitutive properties in the interfacial planes, the laminated composite material can be homogenized into a material not all of whose constitutive parameters are independent of each other. This non-independen...

This study investigates soft composite sheets that undergo significant deformations. The fiber reinforcement in these systems not only increases the stiffness of sheets like a traditional composite, but also controls the relationships between strains in orthogonal planar directions. Such an ability is useful in controlling the deformation of soft robots, and also enhancing the output of soft ac...

. this paper presents the results of an experimental investigation on shear strength enhancement of reinforced concrete deep beams externally reinforced with fiber reinforced polymer (frp) composites. a total of six deep beam specimens of two different classes, as-built (unstrengthened) and retrofitted were tested in the experimental evaluation program. two composite systems namely carbon/epoxy...