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Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry (ISSN No: 0022-3050) is published monthly by BMJ Publishing Group and is distributed in the USA by Air Business Ltd. Periodicals postage paid at Jamaica NY 11431 POSTMASTER: send address changes to Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, Air Business Ltd, c/o Worldnet Shipping Inc., 156-15, 146th Avenue, 2nd Floor, Jamaica, NY 11434, USA. M...

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry (ISSN No: 0022-3050) is published monthly by BMJ Publishing Group and is distributed in the USA by Air Business Ltd. Periodicals postage paid at Jamaica NY 11431 POSTMASTER: send address changes to Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, Air Business Ltd, c/o Worldnet Shipping Inc., 156-15, 146th Avenue, 2nd Floor, Jamaica, NY 11434, USA. M...

The paper analyzes pride, its nature, expression and functions, as a social emotion connected to the areas of image and self-image and to power relations. Three types of pride, dignity, superiority and arrogance, are distinguished, their mental ingredients are singled out, and two experimental studies are presented showing that they are conveyed by different combinations of smile, eyebrow and e...

As one of the advanced Completely Automated Public Turing tests to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHAs), the CAPTCHA using mental rotation has been proposed. Mental rotation is an advanced human-cognitiveprocessing ability to rotate mental representations of “one” single 2D/3D object. However, as have already been reported, the mental rotation CAPTCHA can be overcome by pattern matching a...

This paper presents a computational cognitive model of the construction process of complex, i.e., multi-part, visual mental images. The model is integrated into the cognitive architecture Casimir. The construction process is realized by the interplay of a spatial working memory structure and a passive quasi-pictorial visual representation. Both structures are successively build up on demand fro...

Invariant 2-D/3-D object recognition and motion estimation under detection/occlusion noise and/or partial object viewing are di cult pattern recognition tasks. On the other hand, the biological neural networks of human are extremely adept in these tasks. It has been suggested by the studies of experimental psychology that the task of matching rotated and scaled shapes by human is done by mental...

Body dissatisfaction (BD) is a highly prevalent feature amongst females in society, with the majority of individuals regarding themselves to be overweight compared to their personal ideal, and very few self-describing as underweight. To date, explanations of this dramatic pattern have centred on extrinsic social and media factors, or intrinsic factors connected to individuals' knowledge and bel...

Research on visual mental imagery has been fueled recently by the development of new behavioral and neurosci-entific techniques. This review focuses on two major topics in light of these developments. The first concerns the extent to which visual mental imagery and visual perception share common psychological and neural mechanisms; although the research findings largely support convergence betw...

Disasters create extremely dynamic situations which have to be handled by emergency operations centers. For fulfilling their task they rely on up-to-date information from on-site units and passer-bys. Every individual has its own mental image of the situation which is recorded for situation evaluation as free-form text messages. In order to enable further automatic reasoning processes, this men...