According to a classic view developed by Carey and Diamond (1977), young children process faces in a piecemeal fashion before adult-like holistic processing starts to emerge at the age of around 10 years. This is known as the encoding switch hypothesis. Since then, a growing body of studies have challenged the theory. This article will provide a critical appraisal of this literature, followed b...

-Since removal of cattle from Arapaho Prairie in 1977, secondary succession has resulted in increased vegetation cover. Studies of resident lizards on a 150 X 150 m grid revealed: (1) one lizard species (Holbrookia maculata) has essentially been eliminated in 15 yr (from a maximum of 74 residents in 1979 to three residents in 1993); (2) a second lizard population (Sceloporus undulatus) has decl...

2008 issn 1652-4063 isbn 978-91-7668-642-3 Anna Böttiger (née Börjel) was born in Hjulsjö, Hällefors 1977. She received a Master of Science in Chemistry at Karlstad University 2002. Her doctoral studies started in 2003 at the Department of Clinical Chemistry, Örebro University Hospital. In May 2005 she received a licentiate degree in biomedicine. Since 2007 she is working as a Clinical Biochemi...

This paper deals with the problem of estimating an appropriate hand posture to grasp an object, from 2D object’s visual cues in a many-to-many (objects,grasp) configuration. A statistical learning protocol implementing vector-valued regression is adopted for both classifying the most likely grasp type and estimating the hand posture. An extensive experimental evaluation on a publicly available ...