Garner interference reveals dependencies between emotional expression and gaze in face perception.

The relationship between facial expression and gaze processing was investigated with the Garner selective attention paradigm. In Experiment 1, participants performed expression judgments without interference from gaze, but expression interfered with gaze judgments. Experiment 2 replicated these results across different emotions. In both experiments, expression judgments occurred faster than gaze judgments, suggesting that expression was processed before gaze could interfere. In Experiments 3 and 4, the difficulty of the emotion discrimination was increased in two different ways. In both cases, gaze interfered with emotion judgments and vice versa. Furthermore, increasing the difficulty of the emotion discrimination resulted in gaze and expression interactions. Results indicate that expression and gaze interactions are modulated by discriminability. Whereas expression generally interferes with gaze judgments, gaze direction modulates expression processing only when facial emotion is difficult to discriminate. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Lexical Influences in Audiovisual Speech Perception.

Phoneme identification with audiovisually discrepant stimuli is influenced hy information in the visual signal (the McGurk effect). Additionally, lexical status affects identification of auditorily presented phonemes. The present study tested for lexical influences on the McGurk effect. Participants identified phonemes in audiovisually discrepant stimuli in which lexical status of the auditory component and of a visually influenced percept was independently varied. Visually influenced (McGurk) responses were more frequent when they formed a word and when the auditory signal was a nonword (Experiment 1). Lexical effects were larger for slow than for fast responses (Experiment 2), as with auditory speech, and were replicated with stimuli matched on physical properties (Experiment 3). These results are consistent with models in which lexical processing of speech is modality independent. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Impact of QOS requirements on video coding for ATM networks

The broadband integrated services digital networks (B-ISDN) based on asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) technology can support a wide range of applications such as voice, video, still images, and data. Compression techniques increase the effective bandwidth utilization, but the bursty and asynchronous nature of the traffic can still lead to congestion in the network, and degradation of image quality and quality of service (QOS). Some of the features to provide better coding schemes for ATM networks are layered coding, resynchronization, buffering, interleaved schemes, constrained bit rate due to buffers, encapsulation with the RTP or AAL1 for clock recovery, lapped transforms, motion compensation, and optimal bit allocation for coders based on wavelet transforms. We review various techniques forimage and video coding such as transforms, motion compensation, vector quantization, and subband coding. We outline the impact of the cell loss ratio (CLR), delay and cell delay variation (CDV) on video coding: blocking effects, loss of frame synchronization, motion vectors, and vector quantization codewords. The open problems include tuning coding parameters to the available QOS provided by the network.     

Powers of observation in creative design

Being perceptive is a trait highly valued in scientific and engineering professions. What a scientist or engineer notices while considering a problem, evaluating alternatives, or interpreting data has a profound impact on how a problem is viewed and solved. This paper focuses on processes we believe underlie being perceptive: firstly, preparation—becoming attuned to salient or important features; secondly, assimilation-detection and exploration of patterns (invariants) as well as anomalies; and thirdly, strategic control-heuristic strategies for exploring the implications of what has been observed. These processes play an integral role in characteristic activities within creative design, including problem reformulation, the emergence of properties and constraints on the solution, and the ability to incorporate into the design experimental feedback from the environment and from experiences with prototypes and previous designs. The paper presents a computational model incorporating these ideas, implemented in a system called IMPROVISER.     

一种新的抖动调制方法

本文在脉冲延迟发生的基础上提供了一种用调相方法实现抖动调制的方案。该采用数字电路，与传统的调频方法比较具有易实现，精度高等优点，并为进一步开发出抖动测试集资打下了基础。     

Incorporating If...Then...Personality Signatures in Person Perception: Beyond the Person-Situation Dichotomy.

Three studies investigated conditions in which perceivers view dispositions and situations as interactive, rather than independent, causal forces when making judgments about another's personality. Study 1 showed that perceivers associated 5 common trait terms (e.g., friendly and shy) with characteristic if...then... (if situation a, then the person does x, but if situation b, then the person does y) personality signatures. Study 2 demonstrated that perceivers used information about a target's stable if...then... signature to infer the target's motives and traits; dispositional judgments were mediated by inferences about the target's motivations. Study 3 tested whether perceivers draw on if...then... signatures when making judgments about Big Five trait dimensions. Together, the findings indicate that perceivers take account of person-situation interactions (reflected in if...then... signatures) in everyday explanations of social behavior and personality dispositions. Boundary conditions are also discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

复杂山区静校正方法研究及效果

对于山区地震勘探，开展静校正研究是资料处理的主要问题之一。静校正精度与剖面质量密切相关，准确的静校正取决于合理的方法和正确的应用。本文在分析了复杂山区特点以及静校正难点的基础上，指出要解决好山区静校正，仅限于普通的方法是远远不够的，必须从四个关键点人手，即风化层延迟时的求取、基准面的确定、校正速度的研究以及表层模型的建立等。本文对上述问题的研究做了介绍，展示了合成延迟时法十等效速度模型反演十变速浮动基准面（地震参考面）静校正等综合技术在太行山区（山西沁源、大寨）、伊J；1丘陵山区等复杂地表区应用的例子。显著的处理效果表明，严重的山区静校正问题得到了较好的解决，满足了地下构造的叠加成像，提高了勘探精度及其整体效果。     

声表面波脉冲编码调制振荡器

论述了一种直接式声表面波脉冲编码调制振荡器的工作原理及设计方法。实际制作了工作频率为３９４ＭＨｚ、调制频偏大于２００ｋＨｚ、调制信号码速率大于４００ｋｂｉｔ／ｓ、输出功率大于５０ｍＷ、温度稳定性优于±５０×１０－６（－２０°Ｃ～＋６０°Ｃ）的性能优良的声表面波脉冲编码调制振荡器     

声表面波可程序抽头延迟线研究

报道声表面波可程序抽头延迟线的研制情况。对该器件的总体结构，电路原理框图、声表面波可程序抽头延迟线结构作了一个扼要的概念。同时分别报道了我所研制的各类声表面波可程序抽头延迟线器件性能指标及相应的图片说明，最后对该器件仍存在的一些问题作了探讨。     

离散效应存在时孤子脉冲的增强压缩

在群速度不匹配的条件下，提出一种提高孤子脉冲压缩效应的新方法．研究表明，若使信号脉冲与泵浦脉冲存在一适当的初始延时，则不但可以提高离散效应单独存在时信号脉冲的压缩比，而且可以提高孤子脉冲的压缩质量．