Affect is considered by most contemporary theories to be postcognitive, that is, to occur only after considerable cognitive operations have been accomplished. Yet a number of experimental results on preferences, attitudes, impression formation, and de-_ cision making, as well as some clinical phenomena, suggest that affective judgments may be fairly independent of, and precede in time, the sort...

This paper specifies constraints based on the geometry of the grasped object, on geometry of the hand and the kinematics of the constrained object which determine how to grasp an object.

When in the early summer of 1805 Meriwether Lewis for first time sights great mountains American West, he merely reports "an august spectacle." The word "august" was not then an aesthetic category, nor did it usually describe visual contact with landscape. Categories used these purposes were picturesque and sublime. Whereas there are numerous examples journals Clark expedition, sublime draws a ...