Shadowed contour lines vary line width. Illuminated contour lines additionally vary color based on an angle of illumination. Illuminated and shadowed contour lines date back to the midnineteenth century, but their effectiveness compared to conventional contour lines has not been fully examined. Currently, illuminated and shadowed contour lines are not widely used in computer-based cartography b...

the overgrazing and excessive utilization of rangelands has caused vegetationand soil degradation in many rangelands. in the rangeland management, the soil andvegetation elements, environmental factors and livestock should be considered as decisionmaking agents. various methods are applicable for the rangeland restoration as contourfurrows and mortar stone dam. in order to evaluate the effects ...

Stable object perception relies on persistent yet temporary neural representations under constantly fluctuating stimulus conditions. The mechanisms by which such representations are formed and maintained are not fully understood but presumably involve interplay between early and higher tier visual cortical mechanisms. Some neurophysiological models of feature binding in early visual cortex pred...

Authenticity of vocal emotion expression affects emotion recognition and brain activity in the so-called Theory of Mind (ToM) network, which is implied in the ability to explain and predict behavior by attributing mental states to other individuals. Exploiting the variability of the fundamental frequency (F0 contour), which varies more (higher contour) in play-acted expressions than authentic o...

To determine the dynamics of contour integration the temporal properties of the individual contour elements were varied as well as those of the contour they form. A temporal version of a contour integration paradigm (Field, D. J., Hayes, A., & Hess, R. F. (1993) Vision Research, 33, 173-193) was used to assess these two temporal dynamics as a function of the contrast of individual elements and ...