Purpose: The aims of this study were to compare fusional vergence measurements between orthophoria, esophoria and exophoria, and to determine the strength of correlations between fusional convergence and divergence and angle of deviation. Methods and materials: A cross-sectional study was performed in children with best-corrected visual acuity of 0.0 LogMAR in either eye, compensated heterophor...

Social comparison theory maintains that people think about themselves compared with similar others. Those in one culture, then, compare themselves with different others and standards than do those in another culture, thus potentially confounding cross-cultural comparisons. A pilot study and Study 1 demonstrated the problematic nature of this reference-group effect: Whereas cultural experts agre...

Spatial navigation is an essential human skill that is influenced by several factors. The present study investigates how gender, age, and cultural background account for differences in reference frame proclivity and performance in a virtual navigation task. Using an online navigation study, we recorded reaction times, error rates (confusion of turning axis), and reference frame proclivity (egoc...

This article proposes a ‘topological’ reinterpretation of the extended nominal architecture in relation to southern Italo-Romance vocatives with and without allocuzione inversa (‘address inversion’, Renzi 1968), phenomenon involving ‘inverse’ lexical indexation speaker-addressee relationship (reg.It. Mangia, papà! ‘Eat up, little one!’, father child). Topological Mapping Theory (Longobardi 2005...

PURPOSE Adjustable suture techniques are used to reduce the reoperation rate in strabismus surgery, but traditionally require that final adjustments be made between 1 to 24 hours after surgery. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a new anesthetic technique that would allow immediate postoperative adjustment of sutures in strabismus surgery, thereby improving patient convenience and comfor...