Summary: When conversing, humans instantaneously predict meaning from fragmentary and ambiguous mspeech, long before utterance completion.They do Printer this by integrating priors (initial assumptions about the world) with contextual evidence to rapidly decide on the most likely meaning.One powerful prior is attentional preference for agents, whic
In grapheme-color synesthesia, letters and numbers evoke abnormal colored perceptions.Although the underlying mechanisms are not known, it is largely thought that the synesthetic brain is characterized by atypical connectivity throughout various brain regions, including the visual areas.To study the putative impact of synesthesia on the visual brai
The aviation industry relies on continuous inspections to ensure infrastructure safety, particularly in confined spaces like aircraft fuel tanks, where human inspections are labor-intensive, risky, and expose workers to hazardous exposures.Robotic systems present a promising alternative to these manual processes but face significant technical and o
Fruit seed is a by-product of fruit processing into juice and other products.Despite being treated as waste, fruit seed contains oil with health benefits comparable or even higher than the conventional seed oil from field crops.In addition to essential fatty acids, the fruit seed oil is a rich source of bioactive compounds such as tocopherols, caro