Affective reactions to briefly presented pictures were investigated to determine whether fleeting stimuli engage the motivational systems mediating emotional responses. Emotional and neutral pictures were presented for 500 ms; heart rate, skin conductance, corrugator EMG, and the evoked startle reflex were measured. The time course of reflex modulation was similar to that obtained with longer (...

We briefly review and summarize the results in research of China High Technology Networks(CHTN), which can be composed by three levels. A weighted framework is put forward and can be used to study some similar networks. According to our idea and method, the CHTN is constructed. Then the CHTN’s topological properties are investigated, including degree distribution, shortest path length, clusteri...

Three experiments investigated how visual objects prime the actions they afford. The principal concern was whether such visuomotor priming depends upon a concurrent visual input--as would be expected if it is mediated by on-line dorsal system processes. Experiment 1 showed there to be essentially identical advantages for making afforded over non-afforded responses when these were made to object...

This book is of only marginal use as a Perl primer for linguists or as a university textbook. Thick with explicatory text in 10-point Minion font, some chapters, such as that on references and modules, are consequently very difficult to work through, and are written in sometimes abstruse language (“The other thing is something to do with how we use functions,” p. 55), which further impedes full...