The paper investigates the sustainability potential of intangible cultural heritage preserved in informal settlements seen as an extension rurality urban settings. It delves into this underexplored dimension context Global South by analysing two Islamabad, Pakistan, namely, France Colony and Mehr Abadi. grounded theory is adapted using semistructured interviews during transect walks through fol...

PURPOSE Psychophysical studies have shown that a dark-adapted eye exerts a tonic interocular suppression (TIS) upon spatial vision mediated by the contralateral eye. The present study was designed to demonstrate TIS by means of visual evoked potential (VEP) procedures. METHODS Evoked cortical potentials were obtained in response to reversing checkerboard patterns with fundamental Fourier freq...

The tilt aftereffect (TAE) is a visual illusion in which prolonged adaptation to an oriented stimulus causes shifts in the perceptions of subsequent stimuli. Historically, the TAE has been attributed to response suppression of neurons tuned to the adapting orientation. Recent physiological studies of neurons in primary visual cortex (V1) have identified two effects of adaptation: a response sup...

Neurophysiological studies in primates have found that direction-sensitive neurons in the primary somatosensory cortex (SI) generally increase their response rate with increasing speed of object motion across the skin and show little evidence of speed tuning. We employed psychophysics to determine whether human perception of motion direction could be explained by features of such neurons and wh...

Professionals involved in cross-cultural assessment have acknowledged the methodological challenges which they must face when translating and adapting questionnaires developed for a specific linguistic and cultural group. International medical studies have demonstrated that a simple translation of a questionnaire does not ensure data accuracy (Guillemin et al., 1993). Guidelines for adapting te...