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Individual differences in the Müller-Lyer and Ponzo illusions are stable across different contexts

Michael Herzog, Aline Françoise Cretenoud, Lukasz Grzeczkowski

Vision scientists have attempted to classify visual illusions according to certain aspects, such as brightness or spatial features. For example, Piaget proposed that visual illusion magnitudes either decrease or increase with age. Subsequently, it was sugg ...

2020

Ethics in Research

Science is in revolution. The formidable scientific and technological developments of the last century have dramatically transformed the way in which we conduct scientific research. The knowledge and applications that science produces has profound conseque ...

2019

Science, Democracy, and the Pursuit of Aliens

Jérôme Baudry

In 1902, a contributor to Popular Science affirmed that “The era of the amateur scientist is passing; science must now be advanced by the professional expert.” Throughout the twentieth century, amateurs have been increasingly excluded from the production o ...

2019

Plea for an Ecology of Savant Practices: A Brief Theoretical Venture

Simon François Dumas Primbault

Recent developments in media studies have led philosophers to emphasise the role played by mediation in a broad sense, conceiving of a medium as what lies in between two alterities and that at once enables and constrains, materialises and shapes our percep ...

2019

Unleashing the power of semantic text analysis: a complex systems approach

Andrea Martini

In the present information era, a huge amount of machine-readable data is available regarding scientific publications. Such unprecedented wealth of data offers the opportunity to investigate science itself as a complex interacting system by means of quanti ...

EPFL2018

Critical raw materials: A perspective from the materials science community

Heinrich Hofmann

Functional materials are crucial to meet today's societal challenges and needs, such as the transition towards low carbon energy production to reduce climate change, renewable energies and green economy, clean mobility and improved communication. In order ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2018

Encoding and Decoding Models in Cognitive Electrophysiology

Stéphanie Martin

Cognitive neuroscience has seen rapid growth in the size and complexity of data recorded from the human brain as well as in the computational tools available to analyze this data. This data explosion has resulted in an increased use of multivariate, model- ...

Frontiers Media Sa2017

iNVESTIGA: Connecting the Colombian Scientific Diaspora with Secondary Schools in Colombia

Rafael Eduardo Carrillo Rangel, Ricardo Alberto Corredor Jerez

According to recent studies, Latin America is the region with the highest emigration rate in the world, specially affecting the highly educated population. One of the consequences of this process is the expansion of business and scientific diasporas. Colom ...

2016

Roadmap on optical rogue waves and extreme events

Krassimir Panajotov, Yiqi Zhang

The pioneering paper 'Optical rogue waves' by Solli et al (2007 Nature 450 1054) started the new subfield in optics. This work launched a great deal of activity on this novel subject. As a result, the initial concept has expanded and has been enriched by n ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

Thermal Boundary Conductance: A Materials Science Perspective

Christian Monachon, Ludger Weber

The thermal boundary conductance (TBC) of materials pairs in atomically intimate contact is reviewed as a practical guide for materials scientists. First, analytical and computational models of TBC are reviewed. Five measurement methods are then compared i ...

Annual Reviews2016