18 research outputs found
Four dimensions characterize comprehensive trait judgments of faces
People readily attribute many traits to faces: some look beautiful, some competent, some aggressive. These snap judgments have important consequences in real life, ranging from success in political elections to decisions in courtroom sentencing. Modern psychological theories argue that the hundreds of different words people use to describe others from their faces are well captured by only two or three dimensions, such as valence and dominance, a highly influential framework that has been the basis for numerous studies in social and developmental psychology, social neuroscience, and in engineering applications. However, all prior work has used only a small number of words (12 to 18) to derive underlying dimensions, limiting conclusions to date. Here we employed deep neural networks to select a comprehensive set of 100 words that are representative of the trait words people use to describe faces, and to select a set of 100 faces. In two large-scale, preregistered studies we asked participants to rate the 100 faces on the 100 words (obtaining 2,850,000 ratings from 1,710 participants), and discovered a novel set of four psychological dimensions that best explain trait judgments of faces: warmth, competence, femininity, and youth. We reproduced these four dimensions across different regions around the world, in both aggregated and individual-level data. These results provide a new and most comprehensive characterization of face judgments, and reconcile prior work on face perception with work in social cognition and personality psychology
Networks of silicon nanowires: a large-scale atomistic electronic structure analysis
Networks of silicon nanowires possess intriguing electronic properties
surpassing the predictions based on quantum confinement of individual
nanowires. Employing large-scale atomistic pseudopotential computations, as yet
unexplored branched nanostructures are investigated in the subsystem level, as
well as in full assembly. The end product is a simple but versatile expression
for the bandgap and band edge alignments of multiply-crossing Si nanowires for
various diameters, number of crossings, and wire orientations. Further progress
along this line can potentially topple the bottom-up approach for Si nanowire
networks to a top-down design by starting with functionality and leading to an
enabling structure.Comment: Published version, 5+2 pages (including supplementary material
Slow light in Germanium nanocrystals
Ankara : The Department of Physics and the Institute of Engineering and Science of Bilkent University, 2009.Thesis (Master's) -- Bilkent University, 2009.Includes bibliographical references leaves 53-56.The phenomena of quantum coherence has been applied with great success in
the atomic systems. For optoelectronic applications the interest is inherently directed
towards the semiconductor heterostructures. Large number of works have
proposed and analyzed the atomic quantum coherence effects in the semiconductors.
In this respect, nanocrystals (NCs) are very promising structures for seeking
the quantum coherence phenomena due to their atomic-like electronic structure.
Furthermore, their robust structure, integrability and larger excitonic lifetimes
with respect to atomic systems makes them more promising candidates for the
technological applications.
Within an atomistic pseudopotential electronic structure framework, the optical
Bloch equations (OBEs) originating from atomic coherence theory are derived
and solved numerically for Ge NCs. The results are interpreted in the context of
coherent population oscillations (CPO). Narrow dips are observed in the absorption
profiles which corresponds to high dispersions within a transparency window
and produce slow light. A systematic study of the size-scaling of slow-down factor
with respect to NC diameter and controllable slow light by applying external
Stark field are provided. The results indicate that Ge NCs can be used to generate
optically and electrically controllable slow light.
The many-body Coulomb interactions which underlie the quantum coherence
and dephasing are of central importance in semiconductor quantum confined systems.
The effects of many-body interactions on the optical response of Ge NCs
have been analyzed. The semiconductor optical Bloch equations (SBEs) are derived
in a semiclassical approach and the Coulomb correlations are included at
the level of Hartree-Fock approximation.Keleş, ÜmitM.S
Efficient prediction of trait judgments from faces using deep neural networks
Judgments of people from their faces are often invalid but influence many social decisions (e.g., legal sentencing), making them an important target for automated prediction. Direct training of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) is difficult because of sparse human ratings, but features obtained from DCNNs pre-trained on other classifications (e.g., object recognition) can predict trait judgments within a given face database. However, it remains unknown if this latter approach generalizes across faces, raters, or traits. Here we directly compare three distinct types of face features, and test them across multiple out-of-sample datasets and traits. DCNNs pre-trained on face identification provided features that generalized the best, and models trained to predict a given trait also predicted several other traits. We demonstrate the flexibility, generalizability, and efficiency of using DCNN features to predict human trait judgments from faces, providing an easily scalable framework for automated prediction of human judgment
Spatially informed voxelwise modeling for naturalistic fMRI experiments
Voxelwise modeling (VM) is a powerful framework to predict single voxel responses evoked by a rich set of stimulus features present in complex natural stimuli. However, because VM disregards correlations across neighboring voxels, its sensitivity in detecting functional selectivity can be diminished in the presence of high levels of measurement noise. Here, we introduce spatially-informed voxelwise modeling (SPIN-VM) to take advantage of response correlations in spatial neighborhoods of voxels. To optimally utilize shared information, SPIN-VM performs regularization across spatial neighborhoods in addition to model features, while still generating single-voxel response predictions. We demonstrated the performance of SPIN-VM on a rich dataset from a natural vision experiment. Compared to VM, SPIN-VM yields higher prediction accuracies and better capture locally congruent information representations across cortex. These results suggest that SPIN-VM offers improved performance in predicting single-voxel responses and recovering coherent information representations
Spatially informed voxelwise modeling for naturalistic fMRI experiments
Voxelwise modeling (VM) is a powerful framework to predict single voxel responses evoked by a rich set of stimulus features present in complex natural stimuli. However, because VM disregards correlations across neighboring voxels, its sensitivity in detecting functional selectivity can be diminished in the presence of high levels of measurement noise. Here, we introduce spatially-informed voxelwise modeling (SPIN-VM) to take advantage of response correlations in spatial neighborhoods of voxels. To optimally utilize shared information, SPIN-VM performs regularization across spatial neighborhoods in addition to model features, while still generating single-voxel response predictions. We demonstrated the performance of SPIN-VM on a rich dataset from a natural vision experiment. Compared to VM, SPIN-VM yields higher prediction accuracies and better capture locally congruent information representations across cortex. These results suggest that SPIN-VM offers improved performance in predicting single-voxel responses and recovering coherent information representations