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Symmetry, Volume 9, Issue 5

May 2017 - 19 articles

Cover Story: European Robins show a right eye/left brain hemisphere superiority for magnetic compass orientation. As a result, robins are tuned properly to fly to their breeding grounds both binocularly and with the right eye, but fail with their left. This lateralization develops during the first winter and can be temporarily removed in spring by covering the right eye. Very likely, asymmetry of magnetic compass perception depends on lateralized interhemispheric interactions that can be changed in young birds. Photograph: Ulmus Media/www.shutterstock.com. View the paper
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Articles (19)

  • Article
  • Open Access
103 Citations
17,953 Views
17 Pages

22 May 2017

This study analyzes walking interaction to enhance the immersion and minimize virtual reality (VR) sickness of users by conducting experiments. In this study, the walking interaction is composed of three steps using input devices with a simple struct...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,887 Views
13 Pages

Lateralization of the Avian Magnetic Compass: Analysis of Its Early Plasticity

  • Dennis Gehring,
  • Onur Güntürkün,
  • Wolfgang Wiltschko and
  • Roswitha Wiltschko

19 May 2017

In European Robins, Erithacus rubecula, the magnetic compass is lateralized in favor of the right eye/left hemisphere of the brain. This lateralization develops during the first winter and initially shows a great plasticity. During the first spring m...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,050 Views
13 Pages

18 May 2017

A right-hemispheric superiority has been shown for spatial symmetry perception with mono-dimensional stimuli (e.g., bisected lines). Nevertheless, the cerebral imbalance for bi-dimensional stimuli is still controversial, and the aim of the present st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
9,203 Views
20 Pages

Neural Networks for Radar Waveform Recognition

  • Ming Zhang,
  • Ming Diao,
  • Lipeng Gao and
  • Lutao Liu

17 May 2017

For passive radar detection system, radar waveform recognition is an important research area. In this paper, we explore an automatic radar waveform recognition system to detect, track and locate the low probability of intercept (LPI) radars. The syst...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,717 Views
14 Pages

16 May 2017

This paper considers the deployment of a cognitive radio scheme in wireless sensor networks to achieve (1) fair spectrum allocation, (2) maximum spectrum utilization, and (3) priority-based sensor transmissions, while (4) avoiding unnecessary spectru...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5,060 Views
10 Pages

16 May 2017

Centrioles make up the centrosome and basal bodies in animals and as such play important roles in cell division, signalling and motility. They possess characteristic 9-fold radial symmetry strongly influenced by the protein SAS-6. SAS-6 is essential...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,624 Views
16 Pages

15 May 2017

Fluctuating asymmetry is mainly interpreted as an indicator of developmental instability, while directional asymmetry of the upper limbs is associated with handedness. The association patterns between adult androgen levels and fluctuating as well dir...

  • Review
  • Open Access
51 Citations
21,145 Views
12 Pages

Lateralized Functions in the Dog Brain

  • Marcello Siniscalchi,
  • Serenella D’Ingeo and
  • Angelo Quaranta

13 May 2017

Understanding the complementary specialisation of the canine brain has been the subject of increasing scientific study over the last 10 years, chiefly due to the impact of cerebral lateralization on dog behaviour. In particular, behavioural asymmetri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,344 Views
12 Pages

10 May 2017

There is always an asymmetric phenomenon between traffic data quantity and unit information content. Labeled data is more effective but scarce, while unlabeled data is large but weaker in sample information. In an urban transportation assessment syst...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,952 Views
8 Pages

9 May 2017

Symmetry detection has long been a major focus of perception research. However, although symmetry is often cited as a “grouping principle”, the effect of symmetry on grouping, an important form of perceptual organization, has been little measured. In...

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Symmetry - ISSN 2073-8994