In this paper it is studied that there are statistically relevant differences in the brain activity intensity between subjects with an alleged higher development of Spatial Intelligence and those subjects without this alleged higher development. We will analyze their performance on a Spatial Intelligence task of identification, attention and recognition of virtual tridimensional geometric patte...

Humans have a strong sense of who should be punished, when, and how. Many features of these intuitions are consistent with a simple adaptive model: Punishment evolved as a mechanism to teach social partners how to behave in future interactions. Yet, it is clear that punishment as practiced in modern contexts transcends any biologically evolved mechanism; it also depends on cultural institutions...

Three studies explored how the traits that people ideally desire in a romantic partner, or ideal partner preferences, intersect with the process of romantic relationship initiation and maintenance. Two attraction experiments in the laboratory found that, when participants evaluated a potential romantic partner’s written profile, they expressed more romantic interest in a partner whose traits we...

A motivation behind much UbiComp research has been to make our lives convenient, comfortable and informed, following in the footsteps of Weiser’s calm computing vision. Three themes that have dominated are context awareness, ambient intelligence and monitoring/tracking. While these avenues of research have been fruitful their accomplishments do not match up to anything like Weiser’s world. This...

The role of biology in psychology changes from animals to humans. Biology determines animal behaviour in natural environments. For humans the biological forces changes to an energizing function. They recede in the background and the higher psychological functions govern consciousness and behavior. Humans do not have to obey the instincts or reflexes, but have the option to do what they decide t...

Preliminary Sermon: Humans will be Humans; The Medium is the Message The famous Catalan numbers (see [Sl1]), count zillions of combinatorial families (see [St]) and many humans have fun trying to find ‘nice’ bijections between family A and family B. While this may be fun for a while, sooner or later this game gets old, especially since the real reason Catalan numbers are so ubiquitous is their ...

In this paper we present the first experimental step of a larger study investigating the effects of agents’ gender identification on the perceived interaction quality. The purpose was to determine how test subjects judge the ‘gender’ of virtual humans. 48 test subjects rated 7 agents according to their degree of feminity, masculinity and gender ambiguity. The results showed that subjects’ gende...

The gene encoding the eukaryotic initiation factor EIF2S3 (also known as Eif-2Á) is located on the X chromosome, at Xp22.11 in humans, and its homologue Eif2s3 on band C1 in the mouse. EIF2S3 is widely expressed and escapes X inactivation (Ehrmann et al., 1998). In the mouse, expression of a Y homologue (Eif2s3y) has been shown to be essential for spermatogenesis (Mazeyrat et al., 2001). No Y h...

This basic socio-cultural framework, with all its inherent ambivalences and contradictions, emerged during the colonial era and exercised a deep and lasting impact on the political, economic and social structure of the new South American nations. Only after many decades was the impact blurred by the action of other external influences, change occurring from within, and a growing sense of nation...

Direct measurements of the genetic hazards to man have been determined previously by the appearance of elevated in vivo levels of chromosome aberrations. Here we report that interindividual variations in N-acetoxy-2-acetyl-aminofluorene-induced unscheduled DNA synthesis values parallel the actual in vivo levels of chromosome damage and, therefore, may be a rapid useful supplement in genetic ris...