In recent years, great effort has been taken in science and industry to find novel material-
related solutions, which provide improved properties for future technological applications …

Background We investigated the effects on intraocular pressure (IOP) and blood pressure
(BP) of playing brass and woodwind instruments by monitoring IOP and BP in a …

Faces provide not only cues to an individual's identity, age, gender, and ethnicity but also
insight into their mental states. The aim was to investigate the temporal aspects of …

The ability to discriminate minute deviations from circularity is dependent upon global
summation mechanisms integrating information along entire contours. The aim of this study …

Current databases of facial expressions represent only a small subset of expressions,
usually the basic emotions (fear, disgust, surprise, happiness, sadness, and anger). To …

Humans manipulate objects chiefly within their lower visual field, a consequence of upright
posture and the anatomical position of hands and arms. This study tested the hypothesis of …

Visual objects are effortlessly recognized from their outlines, largely irrespective of
viewpoint. Previous studies have drawn different conclusions regarding the importance to …

Many studies have investigated how multiple stimuli combine to reach threshold. There are
broadly speaking two ways this can occur: additive summation (AS) where inputs from the …

Background Acute vestibular syndrome (AVS) features continuous dizziness and may result
from a benign inner ear disorder or stroke. The head impulse-nystagmus-test of skew …

In clinical testing of visual acuity, it is often assumed that performance reflects sensory
abilities and observers do not exhibit strong biases for or against specific letters, but this …