We examined whether dynamic stimulation that surrounds a rival target influences perceptual alternations during binocular rivalry. We presented a rival target surrounded by dynamic random-dot patterns to both eyes, and measured dominance durations for each eye's rival target. We found that rival target dominance durations were longer when surrounds were dynamic than when they were static or abs...

Ovaries are hormone influence organs and make a base for related diseases. Many other lesions are also seen in ovaries which are not related to hormonal disturbance. Ovarian lesions are not diagnosed in early stages as they are asymptomatic and physically difficult to examine. Though the non neoplastic lesions are very common when compared to neoplastic lesions of the ovary, there are very few ...

Despite modest sequence conservation and rapid evolution, long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) appear to be conserved in expression pattern and function. However, analysis of lncRNAs across tissues and developmental stages remains largely uncharacterized in mammals. Here, we systematically investigated the lncRNAs of the Guizhou miniature pig (Sus scrofa), which was widely used as biomedical model. W...

Existing models for the generation of saccades predict fixed trajectories between start and landing positions of saccades. Experimental data show that saccades have rather variable trajectories. The objective of the present research is to quantify the variability in trajectories of binocular saccades and to test in how far spatial variability can be described by adding noise to components of ex...

When an opaque object occludes a more distant object, the two eyes often see different parts of the distant object. Hering's laws of visual direction make an interesting prediction for this situation: the part seen by both eyes should be seen in a different direction than the part seen by one eye. We examined whether this prediction holds by asking observers to align a vertical monocular line s...

The law of equal innervation of the two eyes, positing that conjugacy of movement of our two eyes is basic and innate, was enunciated in Hering's 1868 persuasively argued monograph. It has prevailed over Helmholtz's contrary view that conjugacy is learned. Yet 100 years earlier, Thomas Reid (1710-1796), Scottish clergyman and professor of philosophy, advanced exactly the same view as Hering, us...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND The massive edema of ovary, with or without fibromatosis, is a rare tumor-like entity characterized by an increase in volume of one or both ovaries for accumulation of edema fluid in the stroma that separates the follicular structures. CASE We report a rare case, very peculiar also for its association with a massive stromal fibromatosis and for the presence, never des...

When subjects viewed straight and turned eyes that were isolated singly or in pairs from a head that was straight or turned, they underestimated their true direction of gaze. They also underestimated the direction of head turn when both eyes were closed. However, the judged direction of gaze was improved when the eyes were layered against the heads. Judged direction of averted gaze was primaril...