Synchrotron diffuse x-ray scattering data reveal a dramatic softening of the molecular tilt modulus K_{θ} of the model biomembrane composed of DMPC lipids as the temperature is lowered towards the main phase transition temperature at T_{M}=24^{∘}C. Spontaneous tilt occurs below T_{M}, suggesting that tilt is a symmetry breaking order parameter. Consistent with this hypothesis, it is also found ...

RF-LISSOM, a self-organizing model of laterally connected orientation maps in the primary visual cortex, was used to study the psychological phenomenon known as the tilt aftereffect. The same self-organizing processes that are responsible for the long-term development of the map are shown to result in tilt aftereffects over short timescales in the adult. The model permits simultaneous observati...

RF-LISSOM, a self-organizing model of laterally connected orientation maps in the primary visual cortex, was used to study the psychological phenomenon known as the tilt aftereffect. The same self-organizing processes that are responsible for the long-term development of the map and its lateral connections are shown to result in tilt aftereffects over short time scales in the adult. The model a...

This paper proposes a modified Tilt model, called T-Tilt, for analyzing and synthesizing F0 contours in tonal languages. The Tilt model successfully designed for intonation modeling is extended to cover syllable-based F0 realization influenced strongly by the tonal context. Two modification approaches include adding a parameter indicating a F0 curve pattern and separating duration and amplitude...

Visual illusions emerge as an attractive field of research with the discovery over the last century of a variety of deep and mysterious mechanisms of visual information processing in the human visual system. Among many classes of visual illusion relating to shape, brightness, colour and motion, “geometrical illusions” are essentially based on the misperception of orientation, size, and position...

potential fields are due to complex distribution of sources related to susceptibility and mass density variations for magnetic and gravity field respectively. in researching the lateral heterogeneous of different geological bodies, in particular their edge location potential field has some advantages. we mainly refer to linear features such as fault, folding axis, dyke, trend and border of the ...

Existing techniques for obtaining shape from texture estimate tilt and slant via a single computational mechanism. These techniques do not take advantage of the fact that tilt is relatively easy to estimate, and slant can be estimated more easily once tilt is known. This paper introduces the adaptive bisector method, which allows tilt and slant to be calculated separately, and by different comp...

During prolonged rotation about a tilted yaw axis, often referred to as off-vertical axis rotation (OVAR), a percept of being translated along a conical path slowly emerges as the sense of rotation subsides. Recently, we found that these perceptual changes are consistent with a canal-otolith interaction model that attributes the illusory translation percept to improper interpretation of the amb...