This study investigated whether eye contact perception differs in people with different cultural backgrounds. Finnish (European) and Japanese (East Asian) participants were asked to determine whether Finnish and Japanese neutral faces with various gaze directions were looking at them. Further, participants rated the face stimuli for emotion and other affect-related dimensions. The results indic...

The sparse information captured by the sensory systems is used by the brain to apprehend the environment, for example, to spatially locate the source of audiovisual stimuli. This is an ill-posed inverse problem whose inherent uncertainty can be solved by jointly processing the information, as well as introducing constraints during this process, on the way this multisensory information is handle...

By viewing the covers of a fractal as a statistical mechanical system, the exact capacity of a multifractal is computed. The procedure can be extended to any multifractal described by a scaling function to show why the capacity and Hausdorff dimension are expected to be equal.

The effects of a boundary on reaction systems are examined in the framework of the general single-species reaction/coalescence process. The boundary naturally represents the reactants' container, but is applicable to exciton dynamics in a doped TMMC crystal. We show that a density excess, which extends into the system diffusively from the boundary, is formed in two dimensions and below. This im...

We consider the Haldane bosonisation scheme in d spatial dimensions as applied to a realistic model of interacting fermions in d = 2 and unequivocally demonstrate failure of this scheme in d > 1, specifically in d = 2. In addition to tracing back this failure to its origin, we show that nothing as regards the true metallic state of the model under consideration is known with any degree of certa...

We construct renormalizable, asymptotically free, four-dimensional gauge theories that dynamically generate a fifth dimension.

Discrete 3D supramolecular hybrid particle structures with controllable morphology and dimensions were fabricated and their ability to encapsulate guest molecules was demonstrated.

In feature search tasks, uncertainty about the dimension on which targets differ from the nontargets hampers search performance relative to a situation in which this dimension is known in advance. Typically, these cross-dimensional costs are associated with less efficient guidance of attention to the target. In the present study, participants either had to perform a feature search task or had t...

We generalize a model of growth over a disordered environment, to a large class of Itō processes. In particular, we study how the microscopic properties of the noise influence the macroscopic growth rate. The present model can account for growth processes in large dimensions and provides a bed to understand better the tradeoff between exploration and exploitation. An additional mapping to the S...

We prove the conjectures on dimensions and characters of some quadratic algebras stated by B.L.Feigin. It turns out that these algebras are naturally isomorphic to the duals of the components of the bihamiltonian operad.