To test whether threatening visual information receives prioritized processing, many studies have examined visual search for emotional schematic faces. Still, it has remained unclear whether negative or positive schematic faces are processed more efficiently. We used continuous flash suppression, a variant of binocular rivalry, to render single emotional schematic faces invisible and measured w...

BACKGROUND Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with atypical responses to emotional face stimuli with preferential processing given to threat-related facial expressions via hyperactive amygdalae disengaged from medial prefrontal modulation. METHOD We examined implicit emotional face perception in soldiers with (n = 20) and without (n = 25) PTSD using magnetoencephalography to ...

A rapid response to a threatening face in a crowd is important to successfully interact in social environments. Visual search tasks have been employed to determine whether there is a processing advantage for detecting an angry face in a crowd, compared to a happy face. The empirical findings supporting the ‘‘anger superiority effect’’ (ASE), however, have been criticized on the basis of possibl...

This paper explores the application of wearable computer systems to threat response, exemplified by the Multi-functional Micro-controllable Interface Module (MMIM)/Digital Military Policeman (DMP) system. The system consists of a wearable computer, eyewear interface developed by MicroOptical comprising display, camera, and audio, and software incorporating the FaceIt face recognition algorithms...

-Life is becoming too busy to get medical appointments in person and to maintain a proper health care. The main idea of this work is to provide ease and comfort to patients while taking appointment from doctors and it also resolves the problems that the patients has to face while making an appointment. The android application Mr.Doc acts as a client whereas the database containing the doctor’s ...

background opportunistic infections have become much more considerable in the last decades, especially in immunocompromised patients and due to the medical interventions. cryptosporidium is a pathogenic protozoan parasite causing diarrhea in children and some times acts as a life threatening opportunistic pathogen in the immunocompromised adults. objectives this study aimed to investigate the p...

Accepted ... Abstract While we are capable of modeling the shape, e.g. face, arms, etc. of humanoid robots in a nearly natural or humanlike way, it is much more di cult to generate human-like facial or body movements and human-like behavior like e.g. speaking and co-speech gesturing. In this paper it will be argued for a developmental robotics approach for learning to speak. On the basis of cur...

1 2 Abstract This paper describes a multi-modal corpus of hand-annotated meeting 3 dialogues that was designed for studying addressing behaviour in face-to-face con4 versations. The corpus contains annotated dialogue acts, addressees, adjacency pairs 5 and gaze direction. First, we describe the corpus design where we present the 6 meetings collection, annotation scheme and annotation tools. The...

Traditionally, forensic mental health services have focused on the assessment and treatment of offenders with serious mental disorders. In recent years, there has been growing recognition that forensic clinicians have an important role to play for those offenders who engage in criminal acts driven by psychological or/and social problems, which may, or may not, occur in conjunction with a major ...

This paper describes a multi-modal corpus of hand-annotated meeting dialogues that was designed for studying addressing behavior in face-to-face conversations. The corpus contains annotated dialogue acts, addressees, adjacency pairs and gaze direction. First, we describe the corpus design where we present the annotation schema, annotation tools and annotation process itself. Then, we analyze th...