Visual attention mechanisms are known to select information to process based on current goals, personal relevance, and lower-level features. Here we present evidence that human visual attention also includes a high-level category-specialized system that monitors animals in an ongoing manner. Exposed to alternations between complex natural scenes and duplicates with a single change (a change-det...

In three experiments, we showed that animate entities are remembered better than inanimate entities. Experiment 1 revealed better recall for words denoting animate than inanimate items. Experiment 2 replicated this finding with the use of pictures. In Experiment 3, we found better recognition for animate than for inanimate words. Importantly, we also found a higher recall rate of “remember” tha...

Social cognition research suggests that incidental, environmental stimuli (e.g., business suits) can nonconsciously influence the degree to which behavioral dispositions (e.g., competitiveness) are expressed. Similarly, cognitive research suggests that incidental action-related objects (e.g., hammers) can prime action plans that then affect the speed with which a concurrent, intended action (e....

There are no “unknown quantum states.” It’s a contradiction in terms. Moreover, Alice and Bob are only inanimate objects. They know nothing. What is teleported instantaneously from one system (Alice) to another system (Bob) is the applicability of the preparer’s knowledge to the state of a particular qubit in these systems. The operation necessitates dual classical and quantum channels. Other e...

Animacy is highly correlated with a number of other linguistic concepts, such as transitivity, agentivity, topicality and discourse salience. A key generalisation or tendency is that prominent grammatical features tend to attract other prominent features; subjects, for instance, will tend to be animate and agentive, whereas objects prototypically are inanimate and themes/patients. Exceptions to...

How do we see an object when it is partially obstructed from view? The neural mechanisms of this intriguing process are unclear, in part because studies of visual object perception heretofore have largely used stimuli of individual objects, such as faces or common inanimate objects, each presented alone. But in natural images, visual objects are typically occluded by other objects. Computationa...

Within the framework of concept complexity, a three-stage model Auger destruction inorganic and organic polymers, including RNA SARS-CoV-2 virus, was constructed. The possibility selective choice initial K-ionization, as well way realizing giant decrease in threshold dose inactivation/destruction due to combined nonlinearity caused by local deformation (bending chirality) elemental composition ...

............................................................................................................................... 1 1 Introducing inanimate unergatives ...................................................................................... 2 1.1 The domain of intransitive verbs ..................................................................................... 2 1.2 The domain of...