OBJECTIVES Neglect in vertical and radial directions is rarely evaluated systematically in patients with brain damage. METHOD AND RESULTS Using the line bisection task, we confirmed that some patients with unilateral brain damage manifest vertical or radial spatial neglect. In fact, patients with severe left horizontal neglect tend to have severe vertical neglect. CONCLUSION Because vertica...

People are very precise in the discrimination of a line orientation relative to the cardinal (vertical and horizontal) axes, while their orientation discrimination sensitivity along the oblique axes is less refined. This difference in discrimination sensitivity along cardinal and oblique axes is called the "oblique effect." Given that the oblique effect is a basic feature of visual processing w...

Two contradictory phase diagrams have dominated the literature of high-Tc cuprate superconductors. Does pseudogap line cross superconducting Tc-dome or not? To answer, we revisited experimental magnetic susceptibility and knight shift four different compounds, La1−xSrxCuO4, Bi2Sr2Ca1−xYxCu2O8, Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+y, YBa2Cu3O6+y, as a function temperature doping. The can be described by same for all m...

To date, it has been thought that endophytic fungi in forbs infect the leaves of their hosts most commonly by air-borne spores (termed "horizontal transmission"). Here, we show that vertical transmission from mother plant to offspring, via seeds, occurs in six forb species (Centaurea cyanus, C. nigra,Papaver rhoeas,Plantago lanceolata,Rumex acetosa, and Senecio vulgaris), suggesting that this m...

An earlier experiment showed that the so-called horizontal-vertical (HV) illusion with an L is a function of the retinal meridians with which the two lines correspond. This finding indicated that the illusion is specifically visual and, therefore, unlike other geometrical illusions, would not be expected to occur haptically. The experiment showed that, as found in earlier studies, a large hapti...

E. Hassinger, P. Bourgeois-Hope, H. Taniguchi, S. René de Cotret, G. Grissonnanche, M. S. Anwar, Y. Maeno, N. Doiron-Leyraud, and Louis Taillefer Département de Physique & RQMP, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec J1K 2R1, Canada Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, 01187 Dresden, Germany Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1Z8, Canada Departm...