Face detection is a priority of both the human and primate visual system. However, occasionally we misperceive faces in inanimate objects –– "face pareidolia". A key feature these 'false positives' that face perception occurs absence features typical real faces. Human are known to be located faster than search. Here used search paradigm test whether illusory share this advantage. Search times w...

Studies using functional neuroimaging and patient populations have demonstrated that distinct brain regions subserve semantic knowledge for different classes of inanimate objects (e.g., tools, musical instruments, and houses). What this work has yet to consider, however, is how conceptual knowledge about people may be organized in the brain. In particular, is there a distinct functional neuroan...

The world we live in contains animate and inanimate objects, and adults think about these classes of objects in different ways. Consider one clear case from each class: a cat and a chair. We expect a young kitten to grow an4 change shape over time, but do not expect a newly made chair to do this. If one used instruments to alter the shape of the chair, we might not accept the result as the same...

■ How does the brain translate an internal representation of an object into a decision about the objectʼs category? Recent studies have uncovered the structure of object representations in inferior temporal cortex (IT) using multivariate pattern analysis methods. These studies have shown that representations of individual object exemplars in IT occupy distinct locations in a high-dimensional ac...

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...

To test whether the human fusiform face area (FFA) responds not only to faces but to anything human or animate, we used fMRI to measure the response of the FFA to six new stimulus categories. The strongest responses were to stimuli containing faces: human faces (2.0% signal increase from fixation baseline) and human heads (1.7%), with weaker but still strong responses to whole humans (1.5%) and...

Research on human infants, adult nonhuman primates, and children and adults in diverse cultures provides converging evidence for four systems at the foundations of human knowledge. These systems are domain specific and serve to represent both entities in the perceptible world (inanimate manipulable objects and animate agents) and entities that are more abstract (numbers and geometrical forms). ...

Adult trematodes of the genus Philophthalmus that parasitize the conjunctival sac of birds can cause accidental human infection. Human philophthalmosis is rare, but isolated cases have been reported from several countries including Sri Lanka [1-6]. Adult flukes lay eggs that hatch on contact with water and develop in snail hosts. The emerging cercariae encyst on animate or inanimate objects in ...

The past two decades have seen remarkable advances in photo-realistic rendering of everything from inanimate objects to landscapes, animals, and humans. We previously showed that despite these tremendous advances, human observers remain fairly good at distinguishing computer-generated from photographic images. Building on these results, we describe a series of follow-up experiments that reveal ...

tyrant No. 777196 from the Ministry of Education, Japan. AbstractRepeated administrations of high doses of theophylline to rats resulted in a series of stages which progressed as treatments were continued, i.e. hypoactivity, stereotypy, killing attack and automutilation, etc. Stereotyped behavior was con tinuous sniffing with backward locomotion, biting of the cage floor. standing on hin...