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Are social media robot influencers credible? A cross-continental analysis in a fashion context
Artificial intelligence (AI) has given us social robots that interact with us in everyday life. As chatbots, they are sometimes the first point of entry for contacting a brand. Trends have emerged with human-like social media robot influencers (SMRs) promoting products and services. The literature on this subject is incomplete, so this study aims t...
Public advocates, private advisors: the autonomy, function, and influence of the President's Council of Advisors on Scie...
Published in Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics
US national expert advisory bodies related to science, technology, and innovation (STI) policy have a wide range of missions, governing structures, operational practices, cultures, and impact on federal policymaking. This paper offers an analytical framework for assessing the autonomy, function, and influence of of the President's Council of Adviso...
Blended police firearms training improves performance in shoot/don't shoot scenarios: a systematic replication with poli...
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
Senior police officers' tactical gaze control and visual attention improve with an individual video-based police firearms training. To validate the efficacy of said intervention training, a previous experiment was systematically replicated with a sample of N = 52 second-year police cadets. Participants were randomly assigned to the intervention tra...
Built to Adapt: Mechanisms of Cognitive Flexibility in the Human Brain
Adaptability is a distinguishing feature of the human species: We thrive as hunter-gatherers, farmers, and urbanites. What properties of our brains make us highly adaptable? Here we review neuroscience studies of sensory loss, language acquisition, and cultural skills (reading, mathematics, programming). The evidence supports a flexible specializat...
The role of the opponent's head in perception of kick target location in martial arts
Published in Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
Athletes in Martial Arts must anticipate the target of their opponent's kick or strike to avoid contact. Findings suggest that features, e.g., head and face may play a greater role in predicting opponent action intent compared to global movement information, however little research has explored the role of the head in action anticipation. The aim o...
On the Acquisition of Typing Skills Without Formal Training by School-Aged Children
Typing is not formally taught at school in most European countries, despite digital activities being increasingly prevalent in children's curricular requirements. Typing skills presumably emerge from informal practice, modulated by the availability and use of tools at school or at home. The cognitive processes leading to typing skill acquisition in...
Distinguishing skill from technique in football.
Published in Science & medicine in football
The current commentary adopts a skill acquisition science perspective on the distinction between skill and technique, two constructs often confused in football science and practice. It first positions technique as a coordination pattern. It then argues that experts rarely (if ever) coordinate their neuromuscular system in the same way through evide...
The timing of vision in basketball three-point shots
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
The aim of the present study was to explore the relationship between gaze behaviour, motor responses and the direction of visual attention when different levels of basketball players were engaged in a basketball three-point shot. Twelve near-experts and 12 amateur basketball players, wearing an eye tracker and an inertial sensor, performed 20 shots...
Neprištevnost in njene posledice v kazenskem postopku
Ugotavljanje neprištevnosti v kazenskem postopku sledi že dalj časa ustaljenemu načinu. Sprejetje Kazenskega zakonika (KZ-1) je leta 2008 nekoliko spremenilo biološki kriterij za neprištevnost. Po več kot desetletju ponovno odpiram vprašanje primernosti take redakcije, saj so iz kriterija v bistvenem izostale osebnostne motnje. A motnje osebnosti i...
