The Thatcher Illusion as a Test of Configural Disruption

Perception ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael B Lewis ◽  
Robert A Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Facial Information ◽  
Recent Account ◽  
Thatcher Illusion

Bartlett and Searcy's recent account for the Thatcher illusion suggests that inversion impairs holistic facial information. This illusion is used to compare the effects of inverting and negating faces. Subjects made a speeded response to whether just the mouth and the eyes of a face have been inverted. Performance was found to be slower when faces were inverted rather than upright. Presenting faces in photographic negative also hindered performance implying that this transformation also disrupts holistic facial information.

Reflective Knowledge

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chienkuo Mi ◽  
Shane Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Extended Cognition ◽  
Dual Process ◽  
Dual Process Theory ◽  
Process Theory ◽  
Reflective Knowledge ◽  
Epistemological Disjunctivism ◽  
Recent Account

In this paper, we defend the claim that reflective knowledge is necessary for extended knowledge. We begin by examining a recent account of extended knowledge provided by Palermos and Pritchard (2013). We note a weakness with that account and a challenge facing theorists of extended knowledge. The challenge that we identify is to articulate the extended cognition condition necessary for extended knowledge in such a way as to avoid counterexample from the revamped Careless Math Student and Truetemp cases. We consider but reject Pritchard’s (2012b) epistemological disjunctivism as providing a model for doing so. Instead, we set out an account of reflection informed by Confucianism and dual-process theory. We make the case that reflective knowledge offers a way of overcoming the challenge identified. We show why such knowledge is necessary for extended knowledge, while building on Sosa’s (2012) account of meta-competence.

scholarly journals Experience vs. knowledge in comparative law: critical notes on Pierre Legrand's ‘sensitive epistemology’

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 443-458
Author(s):  
Luca Siliquini-Cinelli
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Comparative Law ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
Sensitive Phase ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
Recent Account ◽  
Critical Notes ◽  
Critical Reflections

AbstractThis paper expounds some critical reflections on Pierre Legrand's recent account of James Gordley's and James Whitman's comparative methodologies. Pushing his unconventional writing style to the limits and labelling Gordley's ‘positivist’ and Whitman's ‘cultural’ comparative law, Legrand's piece appears to be taking the first step towards a new, more sensitive phase for the comparative study of law and legal cultures. The paper argues that, contrary to what might be first thought, Legrand's ‘sensitive epistemology’ cannot act as a gateway to cultural otherness. This is because it is wholly in line with the constructivist objectification of life that characterises the study and practice of law both within and outside the comparative-law dimension.

scholarly journals The Thatcher Illusion: Rotating the Viewer Instead of the Picture

Perception ◽  
10.1068/p5508 ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 537-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janek S Lobmaier ◽  
Fred W Mast
Keyword(s):  
Thatcher Illusion

Historical account of endocrinal disorders in Unani medicine

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Md Anzar Alam ◽  
Mohd Aleemuddin Quamri ◽  
Ghulamuddin Sofi
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Woman ◽  
Endocrine System ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
Unani Medicine ◽  
Recent Account ◽  
Symptoms And Signs

Abstract Hippocratic doctrine of four humors and qualities is implicated to be a pioneer of modern endocrinology because of the concept of dyscrasia. Imbalance in humors causes disease. Unani scholars were aware of endocrinological disorders like endocrinologic syndrome (i.e., association of amenorrhea and galactorrhoea in a non-pregnant woman), castration, contraceptives techniques, infertility, obesity, diabetes etc., and also their mode of remedy, albeit with a phenomenological approach. Their understanding of the symptoms and signs related to endocrinologic syndromes, which were explained in detail in the recent account of the endocrine system, is presented here with historical chronology. The survey was carried out from the literature of the Unani system of medicine, and the same was analyzed from the observations reported in various indexed journals and reputed books. The paper details the account of endocrinologic syndrome from the Greek era to the end of the medieval ages.

II.—The Petrology of the Suffolx Box-stones (Crag)

1915 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 250-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. G. H. Boswell
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Early Pliocene ◽  
Stone Material ◽  
Molluscan Fauna ◽  
Recent Account

Although much has been written upon the palæontology of the Suffolk box-stones, no description appears hitherto to have been published of the petrology of these boulders. This is the more curious on account of the light it might throw upon the disputed question of their source, no similar sandstone having yet been recognized with certainty in situ. The most recent account of the molluscan fauna is by my friend Mr. Alfred Bell. In a preliminary paper he has given a list of sixty-three species (excluding cetacean bones, teeth, crustaceans, etc.), about twelve new species and varieties being described. Mr. Bell has now kindly let me see in advance the MS. of a revised list of Mollusca (seventy-six species), much new box-stone material having been obtained in the last few years. As a result of recent work, he considers the affinities of the fauna to be rather with the Rupelian (Continental Oligocene) than with the Bolderian or Diestian, as he formerly thought. Mr. Clement Reid, in The Pliocene Deposits of Britain (Mem. Geol. Survey, 1890), considered the box-stones to be of about the same age as the Diestian Beds, but Mr. F. W. Harmer has, in later publications, been inclined to consider them to be rather older and of very early Pliocene age.

MAPPING 2D TO 3D FORENSIC FACIAL RECOGNITION VIA BIO- INSPIRED ACTIVE APPEARANCE MODEL

2015 ◽  
Vol 78 (2-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Siti Zaharah Abd. Rahman ◽  
Siti Norul Huda Sheikh Abdullah ◽  
Lim Eng Hao ◽  
Mohammed Hasan Abdulameer ◽  
Nazri Ahmad Zamani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Forensic Analysis ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Appearance Model ◽  
Active Appearance Model ◽  
Video Footage ◽  
Digital Forensic ◽  
Facial Information ◽  
Active Appearance ◽  
2D Model ◽  
2D To 3D

This research done is to solve the problems faced by digital forensic analysts in identifying a suspect captured on their CCTV. Identifying the suspect through the CCTV video footage is a very challenging task for them as it involves tedious rounds of processes to match the facial information in the video footage to a set of suspect’s images. The biggest problem faced by digital forensic analysis is modeling 2D model extracted from CCTV video as the model does not provide enough information to carry out the identification process. Problems occur when a suspect in the video is not facing the camera, the image extracted is the side image of the suspect and it is difficult to make a matching with portrait image in the database. There are also many factors that contribute to the process of extracting facial information from a video to be difficult, such as low-quality video. Through 2D to 3D image model mapping, any partial face information that is incomplete can be matched more efficiently with 3D data by rotating it to matched position. The first methodology in this research is data collection; any data obtained through video recorder. Then, the video will be converted into an image. Images are used to develop the Active Appearance Model (the 2D face model is AAM) 2D and AAM 3D. AAM is used as an input for learning and testing process involving three classifiers, which are Random Forest, Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Neural Networks classifier. The experimental results show that the 3D model is more suitable for use in face recognition as the percentage of the recognition is higher compared with the 2D model.

scholarly journals “A Mere Matter of Rock”: Organized Labour, Scientific Evidence and British Government Schemes for Compensation of Silicosis and Pneumoconiosis among Coalminers, 1926–1940

2005 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark W Bufton ◽  
Joseph Melling
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
Occupational Diseases ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
British Government ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Industrial Injuries ◽  
Recent Account

The growth of statutory compensation for industrial injuries and illness has attracted considerable attention from historians of state welfare and students of organized labour in both Europe and North America. The rights of legal redress for disease and accidents in the workplace have become the subject of some debate among historians of occupational health and safety, most particularly in regard to asbestos-related illnesses. Among the most detailed and scholarly accounts of the subject in Britain are those by Peter Bartrip and his collaborators. In contrast to many accounts in labour and medical history which express strong empathy with the plight of workers who faced injury and death in the workplace, Bartrip adopts a model of industrial behaviour which is closer to rational-choice assumptions of mainstream economics. His recent account of government regulation of occupational diseases since the nineteenth century offers limited comment on the attitudes of trade unionists to accidents, though he broadly maintains that British unions have historically been more concerned with winning compensation awards than pressing for the prevention of hazards in the industrial workplace.

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