The dissociation between peripersonal (within reaching) and extrapersonal space (beyond reaching) has been reported using the line bisection task in left neglect patients and in healthy participants. Furthermore, this dissociation can be modulated by tool use. We conducted two experiments to compare line bisection in peripersonal (i.e., 30, 60 cm) and extrapersonal space (i.e., 90, 120 cm). Hea...

Bisection debugging, which is based on binary search over software version history, is widely used in practice to identify the bug introducing commit. However, this process can be expensive because it requires costly compilation and test execution at many commits. We introduce a novel technique—selective bisection (consisting of test selection and commit selection)—to reduce the number of bisec...

The present study investigated the effect of a click train on the bisection of time, number and length when each modality was presented sequentially and non-sequentially. For the bisection of time, the results showed that the clicks shifted the bisection function toward the left and decreased the bisection point (point of subjective equality), thus suggesting that the stimulus duration was judg...

There is accumulating evidence suggesting an association of numbers with physical space. However, the origin of such spatial-numerical associations (SNAs) is still debated. In the present study we investigated the development of two SNAs in a cross-sectional study involving children, young and middle-aged adults as well as the elderly: (1) the SNARC (spatial-numerical association of response co...

A bisection of an n-vertex graph is a partition of its vertices into two sets S and T , each of size n/2. The bisection cost is the number of edges connecting the two sets. In directed graphs, the cost is the number of arcs going from S to T . Finding a minimum cost bisection is NP-hard for both undirected and directed graphs. For the undirected case, an approximation of ratio O(log n) is known...

Approach motivation has been reliably associated with relative left prefrontal brain activity as measured with electroencephalography (EEG). Motivation researchers have increasingly used the line bisection task, a behavioral measure of relative cerebral asymmetry, as a neural index of approach motivation-related processes. Despite its wide adoption, however, the line bisection task has not been...

Experiment 1 compared the temporal performance of 5-year-olds, 8-year-olds and adults in a bisection task with and without referent durations (similarity vs. partition). The results showed that temporal sensitivity was lower in the partition than in the similarity condition in children, whereas it was similar in these two conditions in the adults. In addition, the 5-year-olds produced a higher ...

In this paper, we are concerned with approach solutions for Sturm–Liouville problems (SLP) using variational problem (VP) formulation of regular SLP. The minimization (MP) is also set forth, and the connection between solution each then proved. Variational estimations (the equation associated through Euler–Lagrange principle Nehari’s method, shooting method bisection method) iterative methods (...

Calculating critical points in 3D vector fields is computationally expensive, and requires parameter adjustments to maximize the number and type of critical points found in a particular 3D vector field. This paper details the modifications required to execute Greene’s bisection method directly on graphics hardware, and compares the performance of the CPU+GPU versions to the CPU only versions.

We propose a new interior point based method to minimize a linear function of a matrix variable subject to linear equality and inequality constraints over the set of positive semideenite matrices. We show that the approach is very eecient for graph bisection problems, such as max-cut. Other applications include max-min eigenvalue problems and relaxations for the stable set problem.