In two experiments, the holistic face effect (Tanaka & Farah, 1993) was investigated by using a learning paradigm with faces which differed in terms of either componential (COMP) or configural (CONF) properties. When full faces had been learned, the expected finding of advantageous recognition of holistic presentations was replicated (Exp. 1). However, when only facial parts had been learned (E...

A recurring problem in conceptual modelling and ontology development is the representation of part-whole relations, with a requirement to be able to distinguish between essential and mandatory parts. To solve this problem, we formally characterize the semantics of these shareability notions by resorting to the temporal conceptual model ERV T and its formalization in the description logic DLRUS .

Many types of part-whole relations have been proposed in the literature to aid the conceptual modeller to choose the most appropriate type, but many of those relations lack a formal specification to give clear and unambiguous semantics to them. To remedy this, a formal taxonomy of types of mereological and meronymic part-whole relations is presented that distinguishes between transitive and int...

Like faces, body postures are susceptible to an inversion effect in untrained viewers. The inversion effect may be indicative of configural processing, but what kind of configural processing is used for the recognition of body postures must be specified. The information available in the body stimulus was manipulated. The presence and magnitude of inversion effects were compared for body parts, ...

Three experiments examined the effects of simultaneous and successive presentation on part/whole transfer in free recall. In the first two experiments, Ss received six or eight trials on the part list. The observed absence of negative transfer under any presentation condition was attributed to the fact that part-list subjective organization did not increase over reals. In Experiment III Ss rece...

An experiment is reported that investigated the effectiveness of receiving the perceptual experience of a bimanual, 2:3 polyrhythm during motor practice of the unimanual parts of the polyrhythm. Thirty-six participants were randomly assigned to one of three practice groups: One group practiced both parts of the 2:3 polyrhythm coincident with both pacing metronome tones (whole practice). Another...

Safety is a system property, hence the high-level safety requirements are incorporated into the implementation of system components. In this paper, we propose an optimized traceability analysis method which is based on the means-ends and whole-part concept of the approach for cognitive systems engineering to trace these safety requirements. A system consists of hardware, software, and humans ac...

We propose a new qualitative spatial logic for reasoning about partwhole relations between geometries (sets of points) represented in different geospatial datasets, in particular crowd-sourced datasets. Since geometries in crowdsourced data can be less inaccurate or precise, we buffer geometries by a margin of error or level of tolerance σ , and define part-whole relation for buffered geometrie...

  Background: Beck Scale for Suicidal Ideation (BSSI) is a widely used instrument to assess suicidality. However, there is only limited information about the psychometric characteristics of BSSI in the Persian language. In this study, we investigated the validity, reliability and factor structure of the BSSI in the general population of Tehran.   Methods : Initially, 900 questionnaire package...