This naturalistic study investigated the treatment and outcome of adolescents with eating disorders (EDs) in the community. Clinicians from a practice-research network provided data on ED symptoms, global functioning, comorbidity, treatment, and outcome for 120 adolescents with EDs. ED "not otherwise specified" was the most common ED diagnosed. After an average of 8 months of treatment, about o...

Naturalistic driving studies (NDS) generate tremendous amounts of traffic data and constitute an important component modern safety research. However, analysis the entire NDS database is rarely feasible, as it often requires expensive time-consuming annotations video sequences. We describe how automatic measurements, readily available in database, may be utilized for selection time segments anno...

Using a computational model of verb argument structure learning, we study a key assumption of the usage-based theory: that the acquisition of a construction relies heavily on the existence of a high-frequency exemplar verb that accounts for a large proportion of usages of that construction in the input. Importantly, unlike the psycholinguistic experiments that focus on the learning of an artifi...

Program evaluation in preparation for accreditation provides opportunities for the identification of program strengths, weaknesses, and improvement potential. In the present study, naturalistic inquiry, an evaluation methodology responsive to the concerns of persons with a stake in the program, was successfully used in preparation for the accreditation of an occupational therapy program. The ex...

In a pilot user study young people were to choose an avatar for an educational application. The avatars came in two visual styles – more naturalistic versus more stylized or sketchy. We explored to what extent similarity in appearance to oneself would be a motive for choices and whether this would differ between users who chose more visually naturalistic versus more stylized avatars. A prelimin...

Neuronal firing responses in visual cortex reflect the statistics of visual input and emerge from the interaction with endogenous network dynamics. Artificial visual stimuli presented to animals in which the network dynamics were constrained by anesthetic agents or trained behavioral tasks have provided fundamental understanding of how individual neurons in primary visual cortex respond to inpu...

Neural processes for naturalistic drawing might be discerned into object recognition and analysis, attention processes guiding eye hand interaction, encoding of visual features in an allocentric reference frame, a transfer into the motor command and precise motor guidance with tight sensorimotor feedback. Cerebral representations in a real life paradigm during naturalistic drawing have sparsely...

Area MT has been an important target for studies of motion processing. However, previous neurophysiological studies of MT have used simple stimuli that do not contain many of the motion signals that occur during natural vision. In this study we sought to determine whether views of area MT neurons developed using simple stimuli can account for MT responses under more naturalistic conditions. We ...

Museum visitors are an ideal population for assessing the persistence of the conceptual barriers that make it difficult to grasp Darwinian evolutionary theory. In comparison with other members of the public, they are more likely to be interested in natural history, have higher education levels, and be exposed to the relevant content. If museum visitors do not grasp evolutionary principles, it s...

Every year, traffic accidents are responsible for more than 1,000,000 fatalities worldwide. Understanding the causes of traffic accidents and increasing safety on the road are priority issues for both legislators and the automotive industry. Recently, in Europe, the US and Japan, significant public funding has been allocated for performing large-scale naturalistic driving studies to better unde...