An aptitude for the detection of bilateral symmetry is a fairly prominent aspect of the human visual system. Knowledge of the reasons behind this facility is not so well established, however. Some of the behavioral data indicates that processing of symmetric and non-symmetric stimuli is undertaken in two wholly di erent manners (i.e. serial versus parallel). However, the interpretation of this ...

Scolytoplatypodini Blandford is a monotypic tribe of ambrosia beetles found in Asia, Madagascar and Africa. Only three species are currently known from Madagascar and four additional species are here described as new to science. Phylogenetic analyses of morphological and molecular data revealed that four of the seven endemic species are deeply separated from all other species by genetic and dis...

Abstract This paper employs phylogenetic modeling to reconstruct the alignment system of Indo-European. We use a data set categorical morphosyntactic features, which take states such as ‘nominative-accusative’, ‘active-stative’, or ‘ergative’. analyze these characters with standard Bayesian comparative method, inferring transition rates between character on basis representation languages in dat...

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This book is a revised version of Christopher Manning's 1994 Stanford University dissertation. As a syntactician who is not an expert on ergativity I enjoyed the book, finding it clearly written and carefully argued. While a large amount of data is included to back up the empirical claims made, it is carefully presented not to overwhelm the reader. Also, while one of the central thrusts is a th...

In a probability guessing experiment, subjects try to guess which of two events will occur next. Humans tend to match the frequency of previous occurrences in their guesses. Animals other than humans tend to maximize or always choose the option that has occurred the most frequently in the past. Investigators have argued that frequency matching results from the attempt of humans to find patterns...

Hemisphere differences in word reading were examined using explicit and implicit processing measures. In an inclusion task, which indexes both conscious (explicit) and unconscious (implicit) word reading processes, participants were briefly presented with a word in either the right or the left visual field and were asked to use this word to complete a three-letter word stem. In an exclusion tas...

We present a morphological study of galaxies in the A901/902 supercluster from the COMBO-17 survey. A total of 570 galaxies with photometric redshifts in the range 0.155 < zphot < 0.185 are visually classified by three independent classifiers to MV = −18. These morphological classifications are compared to local galaxy density, distance from the nearest cluster centre, local surface mass densit...