Accumulated evidence from electrophysiology and neuroimaging suggests that face perception involves extrastriate visual mechanisms specialized in processing physiognomic features and building a perceptual representation that is categorically distinct and can be identified by face-recognition units. In the present experiment, we recorded event-related brain potentials in order to explore possibl...

Remote sensing, when used in conjunction with landscape pattern metrics, is a powerful method for the study of ecological dynamics at the landscape scale by means of multi-temporal analysis. In this paper, we examine temporal change in open formations in the natural reserve of Poggio all’Olmo (central Italy). This area has undergone rural depopulation and the cessation of traditional methods of...

In a cultural-ecological perspective of New Zealand pastoralism the amount and form of energy supplements at different stages of pastoral development are characterized and prospects for sustainability discussed. The history of the pastoral exploitation of the tussock grasslands of South Island, New Zealand is reviewed with particular attention to physiognomic changes brought about by early fire...

The festive culture encompasses different representations that enrich the collective imagination as elements of heritage identity reinforcement. Giants and big heads are a statement such folkloric richness, symbolically linked to tradition immaterial connotation. This article contextualizes, historically ichnographically, one papier mâché giants from Corpus Christi festival in Valencian city Xà...

We examined the development of racial categorizations of faces spanning the European-East Asian ("White-Asian") categorical continuum in children between the ages of four and nine as well as adults. We employed a stimulus set that independently varied skin color and other aspects of facial physiognomy, allowing the contribution of each to be assessed independently and in interaction with each o...

In this paper, we created random facial expressions for the Mechadroid Type C3, a robot equipped with a high degree-of-freedom facial expression mechanism and which is intended to serve a receptionist function. Investigating the morphological characteristics and physiognomy features of these facial expressions, we evaluated what personality characteristics could be expressed by the face of the ...

The Upper Jurassic Evaporite Formation accumulated up to 200 m of interbedded gypsum-carbonates layers across the coastal cliffed region Safi (Morocco) have been affected by karstification process, resulting in karst collapse and subsidence structures associated with faulting, fracturing different types instabilities, which are among main causes natural hazard risk, impacting socio-economic env...