Psychometric functions for motion detection were measured for various spatial velocity profiles made of independently moving lines of random dots. In the first experiment, sensitivity was greater for square-wave velocity profiles than for sine waves of the same fundamental spatial frequency. Sensitivity for square waves depended on the phase of the waveform with respect to the fixation point, w...

Thanks to genome-scale diversity data, present-day studies can provide a detailed view of how natural and cultivated species adapt to their environment and particularly to environmental gradients. However, due to their sensitivity, up-to-date studies might be more sensitive to undocumented demographic effects such as the pattern of migration and the reproduction regime. In this study, we provid...

This paper introduces new contrast functions for blind separation of sources with different time-frequency signatures. Two contrast functions based on the Kullback-Leibler and Jensen-Rényi divergences in the time-frequency (T-F) plane are introduced. Two iterative algorithms are proposed for the proposed contrasts optimization and source separation. One algorithm consists of spatial whitening a...

An analytical expression is presented for the voltage response including the transient voltage for a simple ~i.e., no concentration gradients! porous electrode model subject to a sinusoidal input current density. The transient voltage response as a function of the frequency, exchange current density, and double layer capacitance is studied independent of the periodic ~steady state! voltage resp...

A computational model is proposed in order to explain how bottom-up and top-down signals are combined into a unified perception of figure and background. The model is based on the interaction between the ventral and the dorsal stream. The dorsal stream computes saliency based on boundary signals provided by the simple and the complex cortical cells. Output from the dorsal stream is projected to...

A size-dependent Euler–Bernoulli beam model, which accounts for nonlocal stress field, strain gradient field and higher order inertia force field, is derived based on the nonlocal strain gradient theory considering velocity gradient effect. The governing equations and boundary conditions are derived both in dimensional and dimensionless form by employed the Hamilton principle. The analytical so...

Numerical simulations and experimental measurements were combined to determine the ability of a PIP to measure plasma density and electron collision frequency in a plasma containing spatial gradients as well as time-varying oscillations in the plasma density. Collision frequency was to be measured by the width of the parallel resonance in the real part of plasma impedance-vs.-frequency, while p...