Oleggio is a Piedmontese municipality devoted to agricultural production not far from the Ticino River: the latter has its source in Switzerland and passes quietly through Lombardy into the Po River Rhythm quilts the natural setting and accompanies the flow of the river here the peace unfolds among the green curves and sinuous slopes A few steps from the imposing Campanile di Piazza also known as Torre Bagliotti - named after a local noble family - is Casa Celesia is soft and hospitable: exposed brick arches rise robustly from the ceiling is becoming a fixed stop for connoisseurs of good food; the chef has designed a fascinating and balanced menu: the great classics have been rethought respecting traditional recipes the raw materials chosen instead celebrate seasonality but highly intelligible; it will be thanks to the prominent personalities who have supported his career path The marinated and glazed venison with chestnut honey the ravioli with coda alla vaccinara and Roccaverano robiola or the walnut sablé with madeira cream and coffee express themselves among absolute notes and dynamic contrasts Diners may even decide to embark on one of three tasting itineraries excluding drinks: Sosta (three savory dishes and one sweet) for €60.00 Tappa (four savory dishes and one sweet) for €70.00 and Viaggio (six savory dishes and one sweet) for €80.00 carved out of an old icebox that through a transparent glass floor can be observed below the main dining room of the restaurant A real treasure chest full of precious gems which can be paired with the exquisite delicacies made in the kitchen The philosophy behind this new entry is very simple: to amaze customers without overdoing it through storytelling become the leading actors in the individual courses ready to go on stage during each service through the attentive staff It guarantees to leave a mark in the hearts of anyone who decides to discover the proposal in person Do you want to discover the latest news and recipes of the most renowned chefs and restaurants in the world La nostra società utilizza inoltre cookie funzionali per registrare informazioni sulle scelte dell’utente e per consentire una personalizzazione del Sito; ad esempio Questi cookie possono essere installati dalla nostra società o da Terze parti In caso di disabilitazione di questi cookie la qualità e l’esperienza di navigazione potrebbe non essere soddisfacente Questi cookie sono installati da social media per consentire la condivisione dei contenuti del presente Sito Essi sono in grado di monitorare la navigazione compiuta anche in altri siti e creano un profilo dell’utente sulla base dei suoi interessi Ciò potrebbe avere un impatto sul contenuto e messaggi visualizzati sugli altri siti visitati non sarà possibile utilizzare o visualizzare questi strumenti di condivisione per l’installazione e l’uso di tali cookie occorre il consenso dell’utente Per maggiori informazioni consulta la pagna cookies policy BASKETBALL CLUB LUCCA: Coach: Olivieri.OLEGGIO BASKETBALL: Alberti, De Ros 10, Casella 14, Karem 16, Pilotti 9, Toffain 6, Borsani 7, Suigo 10, Cortellino 2, Ceccato 8, Grassi, Van Elswik 10. Coach: Catalani.Referees: Sailor and Nocchi of Pisa.Footnotes: partials 19-38, 42-52, 73-75. If Arezzo were to lose, Empoli and Pavia at 24, Arezzo and Quarrata at 22. Arezzo won both direct confrontations with the Pistoiesi. So, in this case, Arezzo seventh and Quarrata eighth. And, then, it would be the goldsmiths who would clash with Barsanti and company. Returning to the match with the league leaders, it was the usual rewarded red and white, which began in the second half and culminated with a 31-16 partial in the third period, after Bcl was down by nineteen at the first break and thirteen at the 17th minute. Five in double figures for the team of coaches Olivieri and Vignali super against the team led by the "ex" Catalani. At 27' the scoreboard read 62-73, but Drocker and Trentin favored a partial of 11-2 that reopened everything. The last quarter starts very hot: Bcl recovers, puts the arrow and overtakes, accelerating exponentially thanks to the baskets of Vignali and company up to +8 at 38'. It is the eighth victory in a sprint, point for point in the final: yet another in a comeback. Bcl will now return to the parquet for the challenge against Pavia or Arezzo, at the "Palatagliate", on May 11th. Having moved from Italy to Switzerland in 1977 the company is now making the journey back 48 years later as production in Italy proves to be more cost-effective based in Mendrisio and part of the Ermenegildo Zegna Group has decided to relocate its cutting department to its production site in Oleggio (Novara) It will result in a “redundancy programme affecting around 80 employees” who will have to decide whether to relocate or accept a severance package The situation in Switzerland’s “fashion valley” will be examined in detail in the upcoming April 2025 issue of La Conceria and university professors will provide insights into what is happening in Canton Ticino All you need to know about the leather industry Apply Now Schedule Sign Me Up “Within visual processing areas, we found that information about personally familiar and visually familiar faces is shared across the brains of people who have the same friends and acquaintances,” says first author Matteo Visconti di Oleggio Castello a postdoctoral neuroscience scholar at the University of California who conducted this research as a graduate student in psychological and brain sciences “We were surprised to find that the shared information about personally familiar faces also extends to areas that are non-visual and important for social processing suggesting that there is shared social information across brains.” We were surprised to find that the shared information about personally familiar faces also extends to areas that are non-visual and important for social processing the research team applied a method called hyperalignment to create a common representational space for understanding how brain activity is similar among participants The team obtained fMRI data from 14 graduate students in the same PhD program in three sessions participants watched parts of the film The Grand Budapest Hotel This data was used to align to participants’ brain responses to a common representational space participants were asked to look at faces of fellow graduate students with whom they were personally familiar and at faces of strangers with whom they were visually familiar but about whom they had no other information The researchers used machine learning classifiers to predict what face a participant was looking at based on the brain activity of the other participants participants only knew what the faces looked like The results showed that the identity of visually familiar faces could be decoded with accuracy only in brain areas that are involved in visual processing of faces the identity of personally familiar faces could be decoded with accuracy across participants in brain areas involved in visual processing and also in areas involved in social cognition These areas included the dorsal medial prefrontal cortex which is involved in processing other people’s intentions and traits; the precuneus an area active when processing personally familiar faces; the insula which is involved in emotional processing; and the temporal parietal junction which plays an important role in social cognition and in representing the mental states of others—what’s known as the “theory of the mind.” This research builds on the team’s earlier work which found that these theory-of-mind areas in the brain are activated when a person sees someone personally familiar “This is what allows us to interact in the most appropriate way with someone who is familiar,” says senior author Maria (Ida) Gobbini, a research associate professor in the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and associate professor in the department of experimental and specialty medicine at the University of Bologna how you interact with a friend or family member may be quite different from the way you interact with a colleague or boss “It would have been quite possible that everybody has their own private code for what people are like, but this is not the case,” says co-author James Haxby professor of psychological and brain sciences “Our research shows that processing familiar faces really has to do with general knowledge about people.” Amy Olson can be reached at amy.d.olson@dartmouth.edu The framers were acutely aware of competing interests and they had great distrust of concentrated authority We inspire students to practice good global citizenship while strengthening their own communities Act Now Volume 8 - 2017 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00738 Eye gaze is a powerful cue that indicates where another person’s attention is directed in the environment Seeing another person’s eye gaze shift spontaneously and reflexively elicits a shift of one’s own attention to the same region in space we investigated whether reallocation of attention in the direction of eye gaze is modulated by personal familiarity with faces the eye gaze of a close friend should be more effective in redirecting our attention as compared to the eye gaze of a stranger the social relevance of a familiar face might itself hold attention and To distinguish between these possibilities we measured the efficacy of the eye gaze of personally familiar and unfamiliar faces as directional attention cues using adapted versions of the Posner paradigm with saccadic and manual responses We found that attention shifts were slower when elicited by a perceived change in the eye gaze of a familiar individual as compared to attention shifts elicited by unfamiliar faces at short latencies (100 ms) We also measured simple detection of change in direction of gaze in personally familiar and unfamiliar faces to test whether slower attention shifts were due to slower detection Participants detected changes in eye gaze faster for familiar faces than for unfamiliar faces Our results suggest that personally familiar faces briefly hold attention due to their social relevance even though the direction of eye movements are detected faster in familiar faces Social cues, such as direction of eye gaze and head angle, are effective in redirecting one’s attention to salient aspects of the environment (Friesen and Kingstone, 1998; Driver et al., 1999; Langton and Bruce, 1999; Hoffman and Haxby, 2000; Pelphrey et al., 2003; Senju and Csibra, 2008; Senju and Johnson, 2009) we investigated whether reallocation of spatial attention was faster in response to the shift in eye gaze of a familiar individual as compared to the shift in eye gaze of a stranger spatial reallocation of attention in response to gaze shifts in familiar faces could be facilitated by faster processing of the gaze cue or slowed by the social saliency of familiar faces we measured participants’ speed in detecting a change in the direction of eye gaze in personally familiar and unfamiliar faces we investigated attention shifts elicited by the eye gaze of familiar and unfamiliar faces using a target-detection task based on the Posner cueing paradigm with saccadic reaction time (SRT) as the dependent variable Participants saw a directional gaze cue to the left or right in a familiar or unfamiliar face followed by a peripheral target that could appear on either side of the fixation cross They were instructed to saccade toward the target as soon as it appeared on the screen We manipulated the familiarity of the face cue the congruence between the cue and target direction and the delay between the cue and the target onset Participants were instructed to be as fast as possible in their response Fifteen students from the Dartmouth College community participated in Experiment 1 (seven male All participants were right handed with the exception of one All participants provided written informed consent to participate in the experiment The Dartmouth Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects approved the experiment (Protocol 21200) All stimuli were presented on an FSI AM250 monitor The resolution of the display was 1920 × 1080 pixels Eye movement data was collected with an Eyelink 1000 Plus Desktop Mount eye tracker system Participants were seated 60 cm from the presentation screen throughout the course of the experiment with their chin on a chin rest to minimize head movements Grayscale pictures of friends of the participants were used as familiar stimuli All friends were students from the Dartmouth Community with whom participants had a good relationship for at least 1 year Unfamiliar stimuli were pictures of age and gender matched controls that were taken at another college in an identical studio setting we used pictures of three friends and three strangers We used the following procedure to construct the face cue stimuli We used a full face image with direct eye gaze of each identity as the base image then superimposed an image of the pupil and iris from images of the same identity looking to the left or right Minor smoothing with GIMP was performed to give the images a natural appearance three images were constructed for each identity: eyes gazing forward To avoid confounds due to low-level visual properties of stimuli, all the stimulus images were matched to the average luminance value of all the pictures and for contrast with the lumMatch function from the SHINE toolbox (Willenbockel et al., 2010) The target circle subtended half a degree of visual angle around a point that was 10 degrees away from the center of the screen The gaze cue remained onscreen for the entire duration of the trial (800 ms) Participants were instructed to maintain fixation on the centrally presented face for the period when the gaze was directed toward them and to continue looking at the face when the eye gaze changed direction. They were asked to move their eyes toward the black target circle as soon as it appeared on the left or right. They were instructed to respond as fast as possible but not at the expense of accuracy (Figure 1) They were told that direction of the eye gaze was not informative Example of one trial in Experiment 1 with shift of the eye gaze as a valid cue we analyzed the subject’s gaze position after the target was displayed on screen We took the first time point at which the x coordinate of the gaze position exceeded the borders of the centrally presented face to be the SRT All the trials landed in a neighborhood of 1 degree of visual angle around the target We marked the trials in which eye movements were made in the direction opposite to that of the target as incorrect trials We did not include trials in which eye movements failed to land on the target in subsequent analyses (<2% of total trials) We also marked trials in which eye gaze did not cross the image border in either direction as errors and included them in the calculation of accuracy we discarded the trials that represented reaction times shorter than 80 ms Note that an analysis of deviance tests the differences in deviance of a model using a chi-square test and thus chi-square values are reported for both linear and logit models Percentage of incorrect responses for 100 and 200 ms split by cue validity and familiarity condition in Experiment 1 Saccadic response time (SRT) as a function of validity of the eye gaze cue in Experiment 1 Left panel depicts the effect at the SOA of 100 ms Error bars represent bootstrapped 95% confidence intervals around the mean Familiarity of the gaze cue results in longer latencies for saccadic response at an SOA of 100 ms Main effect of familiarity in Experiment 1: Familiar RT – Unfamiliar RT Main effect of cue validity in Experiment 1: Invalid RT – Valid RT Main effect of SOA in Experiment 1: 100 ms SOA – 200 ms SOA We observed longer reaction times following familiar faces at the shorter delay between the cue and target onsets These results suggest that participants are slower in looking away from familiar faces as compared to faces of strangers thereby delaying the reaction time in response to the target both for valid and invalid gaze cues We reasoned that the same results might not hold true if the task does not require the participant to explicitly look away from the centrally presented face we designed an experiment to test the effect familiarity of the cue on shifts of attention that do not involve saccades to the target we investigated whether findings reported in Experiment 1 would hold if the response to the attended target did not involve explicit eye movements away from the centrally presented face cue we tested the same participants in a paradigm that involved a manual response via a button press The stimuli and testing equipment were exactly the same as Experiment 1 Thirteen of the original 15 participants participated in this experiment (seven male All participants provided written informed consent to participate in the experiments The sequence for presenting stimuli within a trial was exactly the same as in Experiment 1 (see Figure 1) except that we did not vary the SOA in this experiment—since results of Experiment 1 indicated that the effects of interest are present in the shorter delay (100 ms) between the cue and target Participants performed three blocks of 100 trials each the picture of each individual identity was repeated 50 times Eye movements were recorded to ensure that participants maintain central fixation (see Experiment 1 on details how eye movements were recorded) Participants responded with their dominant hand except that participants were asked to respond manually by pressing the left or right arrow key to indicate the side where the black target circle appeared The participants were instructed to maintain fixation on the centrally presented face and only respond when the target appeared in their peripheral vision Trials in which eye movements were made in this period were discarded (<1%) participants were instructed to respond as fast as possible but not at the expense of accuracy We discarded trials in which reaction time was less than 100 ms as anticipatory responses we also removed trials in which eye movements were made as they reflected the failure to maintain fixation Analysis of the entire set of trials (including correct and incorrect responses) with accuracy as the dependent variable revealed that more incorrect responses were made for incongruent trials [χ2(1) = 21.32, p < 0.001], but familiarity did not have an effect on the accuracy of responses [χ2(1) = 1.60, p = 0.2] (Figure 4) Percentage of incorrect responses for valid and invalid trials when the face cue was familiar or unfamiliar in Experiment 2 Manual response time as a function of validity of the gaze cue in Experiment 2 Participants were slower on invalid trials and their latency was affected by the familiarity of the cues Main effect of familiarity in Experiment 2: Familiar RT – Unfamiliar RT Main effect of cue validity in Experiment 2: Invalid RT – Valid RT Results from Experiment 2 revealed an effect of familiarity on attention shifting on the timescale of 100 ms similar to what was found in Experiment 1 but with a smaller magnitude reaction times to targets were slower for familiar faces we found effects of slowing of attentional disengagement by familiar face stimuli in both experiments suggesting that familiar faces are highly salient stimuli that briefly hold attention interfering with shifts of attention to other locations In order to assess if these results arose from differences in processing the gaze cue itself in personally familiar and unfamiliar faces We assessed differences in processing eye gaze in familiar and unfamiliar faces in the absence of a task requiring a shift in spatial attention by asking participants to make a manual response to indicate the direction of eye gaze in familiar and unfamiliar faces In order to ensure that the results reported in Experiments 1 and 2 did not come from differences in processing the eye gaze from familiar and unfamiliar faces we asked participants to indicate the direction of eye gaze changes in familiar and unfamiliar faces with a manual response The stimuli and testing equipment were exactly the same as in Experiment 2 Mean age: 28.11 ± 0.56) of the original 13 participants from Experiment 2 participated in this experiment Three of the previous participants had graduated and left the campus and one did not respond The experimental paradigm was similar to Experiments 1 and 2 except that there was no target following the change in eye gaze Participants performed three blocks of 50 trials each the picture of each individual identity was repeated 25 times Participants were instructed to press either the left arrow or the right arrow key to indicate the direction of the eye gaze change (either to the left or to the right) of the centrally presented face participants were instructed to be as fast as possible in their response We rejected trials with reaction times less than 100 ms We constructed a linear mixed model with log transformed manual response time as the dependent variable, the familiarity condition as the fixed effect and the participants as random effects. The values reported in the results were obtained from Type 3 Analysis of Deviance on each model, performed with the function ANOVA from package car (Fox and Weisberg, 2010) The linear mixed model revealed a significant effect of familiarity condition on reaction time for reporting the direction of changes in eye gaze direction [χ2(1) = 39.75, p < 0.001], with shorter reaction times for familiar faces (M = 425 ms, CI = [420 ms, 430 ms]) than for unfamiliar faces (M = 450 ms, CI = [445 ms, 454 ms]) (Figure 6) There was no effect of familiarity on accuracy [χ2(1) = 0.76 Manual response times as a function of familiarity of the face cue in Experiment 4 Participants were asked to indicate direction of eye gaze via button press Participants were faster in detecting the direction of gaze for familiar faces The results of this experiment, in line with the findings of Visconti di Oleggio Castello et al. (2014) show faster processing of eye gaze in personally familiar as compared to unfamiliar faces These results further support the hypothesis that slower response to targets with personally familiar face cues as compared to unfamiliar face cues is due to the holding of attention by the personally familiar faces rather than to slower processing of eye gaze shifts we report for the first time an interaction of SOA and personal familiarity wherein face familiarity slows the redirection of spatial attention mediated by eye gaze at short but not long SOAs in our first experiment we found that gaze shifts in personally familiar faces elicited slower saccadic response times at a short SOA of 100 ms between the gaze shift and the onset of the peripheral target Familiarity did not modulate the effect of cue validity No modulation by familiarity was recorded at the longer SOA of 200 ms indicating that the slowing of attention shifts due to cue face familiarity is brief which required maintaining fixation on the cue face and manual responses showed that the effect of familiarity was not specific to saccadic responses that required looking away from the face The additional time to prepare a manual response (over 150 ms) may diminish the familiarity effect we found only a non-significant trend toward facilitation in a simple gaze change detection task (see Supplementary Material) unlike the task in Experiment 3 that required indicating the gaze change direction despite facilitated detection of eye gaze shifts in familiar faces reallocation of attention away from the face is slowed by personal familiarity due to slowed disengagement of attention we aimed to study the effect of familiarity that is characterized by a personal close relationship with repeated social interactions over time rather than simple prior visual exposure Personally familiar individuals with whom we have a close relationship have a special status and are processed more efficiently as compared to other type of familiar faces such as famous faces and visually familiar faces the faces of friends with whom the participants had a good close relationship for at least a year leads to slower redirection of attention rather than serving as a more informative cue Our results are consistent with these studies that used cues other than faces Repeated exposure to the faces of familiar individuals and the semantic and emotional information associated with these identities make them socially salient we demonstrate that this highly salient social cue holds attention rather than facilitates redirection of attention MVdOC provided suggestions for data analysis and AS provided critical inputs to the final version of the manuscript The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest We thank Morgan Taylor for data collection of Experiment 3 We thank Jim Haxby and Carlo Cipolli for helpful comments and discussion The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00738/full#supplementary-material Fitting linear mixed-effects models using lme4 Google Scholar CrossRef Full Text | Google Scholar What’s distinctive about a distinctive face CrossRef Full Text | Google Scholar Face recognition in poor-quality video: evidence from security surveillance CrossRef Full Text | Google Scholar Direction-sensitive codes for observed head turns in human superior temporal sulcus Google Scholar Familiarity accentuates gaze cuing in women but not men Attention and salience in associative blocking CrossRef Full Text | Google Scholar You do not find your own face faster; 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airlaid producer's Mauro Giani and Mara Galli will continue to lead the company Diego Masciaga began his career in the hospitality industry at the age of 13 honing his skills by studying at the Stresa School he moved to London to work as a Commis at La Gavroche under Michel Roux where his skill and dedication quickly led to his promotion to Maître d'Hôtel a restaurant that has maintained its three Michelin stars for more than three consecutive decades There he served as General Manager and Head Chef for 30 years ensuring that every aspect of service was impeccable developing a global reputation for service excellence Masciaga has received numerous prestigious awards including the Grand Prix de l'Art de la Salle from the Académie Internationale de la Gastronomie in 2010 and the title of Cavaliere Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana in 2012 for his contributions to the hospitality industry and support of young professionals in the sector Diego decided to retire from his role at Waterside Inn to focus on consulting and training attending special events and offering his support when needed His passion for teaching and mentoring has led him to work with hospitality schools and inspire young talent around the world Masciaga is also the author of "The Diego Masciaga Way" (2014) which describes his service philosophy based on excellence He believes that front-of-house service should receive the same recognition as cooking and has dedicated his professional life to raising the level of professionalism in the industry There is a new space for contemporary art in Italy an ancient building located in the historic center of Oleggio (Novara) opened after a careful restoration commissioned by collectors Laura and Luigi Giordano who in this space will share the works of their contemporary art collection with the city and the public The space is called SPA | Spazio Per Arte and opened to the public in the rooms of the neoclassical building last Nov 25.The Laura and Luigi Giordano collection features a mix of artistic mediums and genres (from figuration to abstractionism neo-expressionism to conceptual art) from the 1980s to the present day The collection includes about 200 works from different generations of artists The work of such historicized personalities as Hermann Nitsch and Antony Gormleyis joined by the likes of Roland Flexner Elmgreen & Dragset and younger artists Gina Folly “We envisioned SPA | Spazio Per Arte,” says Luigi Giordano “as a space open to the city and to all visitors who would like to discover it so that it will also become SPAZIO per l’anima the presentation of a book or a series of lectures but it will always be in the form of an invitation to learn more about the reality we live by training all the five senses SPA | Space For Art will offer itself as an opportunity for a break I discovered contemporary art out of curiosity,” Giordano stresses “and it has become a fundamental part of myself that has guided me not only in my search for beauty opening this space means inviting people to get closer to something that we do not see or feel the search for deep knowledge that helps us to live better and use all our senses in the best way.” The renovation and new destination involves about five hundred square meters of Palazzo Bellini a historic building in the center of Oleggio was purchased by collectors Laura and Luigi Giordano in 2020 They were responsible for the major renovation and conservative restoration entrusted to architect Lorenzo Bini - Studio Binocle The operation returns to the city an important piece of its history dates back to the 15th century and owes its neoclassical appearance to the intervention of architect Stefano Ignazio Melchioni (1765-1837) The restoration was carried out in close collaboration with the Soprintendenza Archeologia belle arti e paesaggio for the provinces of Biella the walls and ceiling underwent a meticulous descialbo that brought back the 18th-century decorations and stuccoes,” says Lorenzo Bini eighteenth-century floral motifs coexist with nineteenth-century decorative apparatus consisting of iridescent faux tapestry and geometric motifs made on the wooden coffered ceiling The original terracotta tile flooring in these two rooms has been restored had decorated ceilings from the 19th century period Here the recent industrial terracotta was removed replacing it with natural hydraulic lime (pastel) flooring that creates a continuous surface chromatically close to the terracotta of the adjacent rooms The tower on the north side connects through an internal staircase the floors of the building which leads directly from the courtyard to the second floor the old staircase made of beola blocks has been retained Whenever we found ourselves having to insert new architectural elements The boxes that house the light fixtures and the rods that support them and the new ceilings (which revisit the coffer type) of the most transformed rooms on the second floor are made of iron which mirrors as distribution almost completely the lower floor an effort was made to maintain the decorative apparatuses and repurpose the color tones in order to give uniqueness to each room The use of flooring in line with the choices implemented on the second floor ensures continuity between the different rooms and the optimal use of the spaces of the renovated Palazzo Bellini.” Laura and Luigi Giordano have entrusted the Scientific and Curatorial Supervision of the programming of SPA | Spazio Per Arte to Francesca Valentini in consultation with the collectors and with Federica Mingozzi head of Education and Relations with the Territory of SPA | Spazio Per Arte will develop the program in the years to come The graphic identity of SPA | Spazio Per Arte is by Dario Pianesi and Alessandro Prepi Sot a dairy entrepreneur who moved from Campania to Piedmont at a very young age led the family business for more than four decades until 2020 when he began to envision the SPA | Spazio per Arte project he has cultivated a passion for contemporary art inspired in part by the guidance of Enzo Cannaviello president of the Galleries in Europe Association until 2000 and among the most important international gallery owners “Enzo has been a reference point for me to learn more about the art world,” explains Luigi Giordano “He made me understand that behind every work of art there is always a deep meaning that in addition to the visible part there is always an invisible part that should make us think This is what leads me and my wife Laura today to share what we have chosen for our collection.” SPA | Spazio Per Arte was born from the desire to share Laura and Luigi Giordano’s private collection with the city and the public and to promote awareness of contemporary art in all its forms SPA’s program will feature an annual thematic exhibition curated each year by a different curator in close dialogue with the collectors and SPA’s curatorial team (the exhibition aims to propose new keys to interpretation and put the works of the Laura and Luigi Giordano Collection in dialogue with each other whose curation is entrusted to Rischa Paterlini); an annual public program a program of activities designed for different SPA audiences and organized in collaboration with institutions organizations and personalities active locally nationally and internationally (the events accompany the exhibition and function as a moment of discovery debate and discussion around the proposed constellation of works); educational activities that consist of visits and workshops dedicated to different audiences with special attention to schools; and special projects created ad hoc from year to year to accommodate the proposals and desires of SPA’s audiences and to offer new insights The inauguration of SPA | Spazio Per Arte coincides with the first exhibition entitled BIANCO which brings together a selection of works from the Laura and Luigi Giordano collection some of which are being shown to the public for the first time SPA | Spazio Per Arte will host contemporary art exhibitions accompanied by public programs as well as a program of visits and workshops for schools Use of the space and exhibitions will always be free of charge White is the Giordano family’s favorite color; White is the color of milk; White is the color loved by Plato White is the dominant color of the 25 pictorial photographic and video art works selected from the 200 that make up the Laura and Luigi Giordano collection and Diego Marcon are some of the artists featured in Bianco an exhibition that invites us to “feel with our eyes,” exploiting the versatility of the color white and visual forms to communicate emotions and ideas White is meant to be a reflection on the ephemeral nature of life “WHITE,” says Laura Crola Giordano “is the color that allows us to observe WHITE is the color of milk and is undoubtedly the most beloved color in our family And so WHITE is the title of the first exhibition that we decided to dedicate to Luigi’s father who moved from the Amalfi Coast to Oleggio when he was only 22 years old where he not only met love and built his family but founded his company until it became the first producer of mozzarella in Piedmont to produce only Italian milk To this ability to undertake and this vision we owe much of the inspiration that led us to imagine SPA | Space For Art the vision and beauty that guides us in our lives.” “WHITE is the dominant color in the video pictorial and sculptural works that have been chosen for the exhibition and collected over the years by collectors,” says Rischa Paterlini curator of the exhibition and the Laura and Luigi Giordano Collection “An exhibition that invites us to ”feel with our eyes,“ harnessing the power of white color and visual forms to communicate emotions and ideas We will observe in the exhibition how some artists have used white as a symbol of purity inviting us to reflect on the essence of life Other 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For information: www.spazioperarte.it Metrics details and information-rich patterns of brain activity and engage large extents of the human brain They allow researchers to compare highly similar brain responses across subjects and to study how complex representations are encoded in brain activity we describe and share a dataset where 25 subjects watched part of the feature film “The Grand Budapest Hotel” by Wes Anderson The movie has a large cast with many famous actors the camera shots highlight faces and expressions which are fundamental to understand the complex narrative of the movie This movie was chosen to sample brain activity specifically related to social interactions and face processing This dataset provides researchers with fMRI data that can be used to explore social cognitive processes and face processing adding to the existing neuroimaging datasets that sample brain activity with naturalistic movies Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12980924 to use a variety of naturalistic stimuli to sample brain activity more broadly multiple naturalistic movies can be used to test whether the experimental results of interest generalize beyond a specific stimulus set The study was approved by the Dartmouth Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects The full-length feature movie “The Grand Budapest Hotel” by Wes Anderson (DVD UPC 024543897385) was divided into six parts of different durations. The movie was split at scene cuts to maintain the narrative of the movie as intact as possible. The audio of the movie was post-processed using FFMPEG (https://www.ffmpeg.org) with an audio compressor filter to reduce the dynamic range and make dialogues clearer in the scanner The code used to split and post-process the movie is available in the code repository Subjects took part in two experimental sessions one behavioral and one in the fMRI scanner participants watched the first part of the movie (approximately 46 minutes) participants went into the scanner and watched the remaining movie They were instructed to watch the movie without any additional task The imaging session comprised one anatomical (T1w) scan one gradient echo (GRE) fieldmap estimation scan During the anatomical scan participants watched the last five minutes of the first part of the movie—which they watched in the behavioral session—to calibrate the sound volume for the scanner They were asked to use a button box to increase or decrease the volume so that they could easily hear the dialogue The volume chosen by the subject was used throughout the session without further modifications The functional runs had a different duration depending on the part of the movie and ranged from approximately 9 to 13 minutes Each run was padded with a 10 s fixation period both at the beginning and the end of the run the movie started with at least 10 s that overlapped with the previous run The movie was presented to the subjects on a back-projected screen and subtended approximately 16.27 × 9.17 (W × H) degrees of visual angle The audio was delivered to the subject through MR-compatible in-ear headphones (Sensimetrics model S14) All functional and structural volumes were acquired using a 3 T Siemens Magnetom Prisma MRI scanner (Siemens Germany) with a 32-channel phased-array head coil at the Dartmouth Brain Imaging Center blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) images were acquired in an interleaved fashion using gradient-echo echo-planar imaging with pre-scan normalization simultaneous multi-slice; SMS) acceleration factor of 4 (using blipped CAIPIRINHA) GRAPPA acceleration factor of 1): TR/TE = 1000/33 ms 52 axial slices with full brain coverage and no gap three dummy scans were acquired to allow for signal stabilization a single dual-echo GRE (gradient echo) scan was acquired This scan was used to obtain a fieldmap estimate for spatial distortion correction A T1-weighted structural scan was acquired using a high-resolution single-shot MPRAGE sequence with an in-plane acceleration factor of 2 using GRAPPA: TR/TE/TI = 2300/2.32/933 ms resolution = 0.9375 × 0.9375 × 0.9 mm voxels The BOLD time-series were resampled onto the fsaverage surface (FreeSurfer reconstruction nomenclature) The BOLD time-series (including slice-timing correction when applied) were resampled onto their original composite transform to correct for head-motion and susceptibility distortions These resampled BOLD time-series will be referred to as preprocessed BOLD in original space Principal components are estimated after high-pass filtering the preprocessed BOLD time-series (using a discrete cosine filter with 128 s cut-off) for the two CompCor variants: temporal (tCompCor) and anatomical (aCompCor) tCompCor components are then calculated from the top 5% variable voxels within a mask covering the subcortical regions This subcortical mask is obtained by heavily eroding the brain mask which ensures it does not include cortical GM regions components are calculated within the intersection of the aforementioned mask and the union of CSF and WM masks calculated in T1w space after their projection to the native space of each functional run (using the inverse BOLD-to-T1w transformation) Components are also calculated separately within the WM and CSF masks the k components with the largest singular values are retained such that the retained components’ time series are sufficient to explain 50 percent of variance across the nuisance mask (CSF The remaining components are dropped from consideration Non-gridded (surface) resamplings were performed using mri_vol2surf (FreeSurfer) All metrics of interest were computed on data denoised as described either in volume space or in surface space No additional spatial smoothing or temporal filtering was performed The functional data projected to the fsaverage surface template and resampled to a low-resolution surface (10,242 vertices per hemisphere approximately 3 mm resolution) was split in two separate datasets to perform hyperalignment and compute quality metrics on independent splits and the second split included runs 4 and 5 Transformation matrices were determined for disc searchlights of radius 15 mm One subject (sub-sid000009) was used as the reference subject to create the hyperalignment common space Data was z-scored before and after hyperalignment to normalize variance A tSNR map was generated for each subject by computing the median tSNR across runs within each voxel To qualitatively visualize how tSNR varied according to brain areas and generate a group tSNR map the same analysis was performed with functional data resampled to the fsaverage surface The BOLD time series were projected to the template surface fsaverage so that the data were spatially matched across subjects Each subject’s data in a cortical node was correlated to the average time-series of the other 24 subjects in the same cortical node This generated a map that quantifies the similarity of an individual subject’s response with the group response The procedure was repeated for all subjects and a median ISC map was computed at the group level Classification was performed within surface searchlights with a radius of 10 mm The data from 24 subjects was averaged and used as a training set and the classifier was tested on the left-out subject This process was repeated for all 25 subjects and a final map was created by averaging across the 25 cross-validation folds The dataset was validated using different metrics that quantify data quality in separate domains We analyzed the amount of subjects’ motion to quantify potential noise in the data caused by subjects’ behavior We estimated tSNR for each voxel separately to make sure that all subjects had comparable levels of SNR and to highlight areas with low SNR We computed Inter-Subject Correlation (ISC) as a metric that is specific to experiments with naturalistic paradigms We consider ISC as a sanity check that the stimulus generated similar brain responses across subjects All the metrics described so far provide information about data quality at the level of single voxels or surface nodes To quantify data quality for multivariate analyses we functionally aligned the data using searchlight hyperalignment and performed time-segment classification across subjects Framewise displacement for each subject across all runs as indicated by a median framewise displacement well below 0.5 mm for all subjects (the median value across subjects was 0.09 mm Twenty out of 25 subjects had less than 5% volumes marked as motion outliers (fMRIprep defines an outlier as a volume in which framewise displacement is greater than 0.5 mm or standardized DVARS is greater than 1.5; see Methods) (a) Violin plots showing tSNR values across the brain a tSNR map was first generated by computing the median tSNR value across runs within each voxel This plot shows the distribution of values in the tSNR map within a brainmask computed in each subject’s volumetric anatomical space Subjects are ordered in increasing median tSNR (b) Median tSNR across subjects computed on data that was projected to the template surface fsaverage areas closer to air-tissue boundaries such as the anterior temporal lobe and orbito-frontal cortex show signal dropout while tSNR is high across the whole cortex visual and auditory areas showed the largest correlation in brain responses across subjects Additional areas belonging to the theory-of-mind network temporo-parietal junction (TPJ) and medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) also showed high correlation across subjects possibly highlighting the richness in social information available in the movie used for this dataset Between-subject time-segment classification on hyperaligned data The left panel (split 1) shows results obtained from hyperaligning on the first half of the data (runs 1–3) and classifying on the second half (runs 4 The right panel shows the complementary analysis hyperaligning on the second half of the data Despite differences in absolute classification values due to differences in amount of data The highest classification values could be found in visual and auditory areas as well as theory-of-mind areas such as precuneus Hyperalignment: Modeling shared information encoded in idiosyncratic cortical topographies Complete functional characterization of sensory neurons by system identification Movies in the magnet: Naturalistic paradigms in developmental functional neuroimaging Intersubject synchronization of cortical activity during 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Zenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3942173 (2020) PyMVPA: a Python Toolbox for Multivariate Pattern Analysis of fMRI Data Pycortex: an interactive surface visualizer for fMRI SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python The NumPy Array: A Structure for Efficient Numerical Computation Download references This project was supported by the NSF award #1835200 to M and the members of the Gobbini and Haxby lab for helpful discussions during the development of this project and provided critical input to the manuscript analyzed the data and provided critical input to the manuscript All the authors read and approved the manuscript The authors declare no competing interests Publisher’s note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ applies to the metadata files associated with this article Download citation DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00735-4 Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: a shareable link is not currently available for this article Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science Please press and hold the button until it turns completely green If you believe this is an error, please contact our support team 147.45.197.102 : d1023c32-d187-49dc-abf5-ac1bf9d6 By beating the league leaders, the red and whites are assured of the place of honor and will meet the seventh-placed team. Not even the most sophisticated algorithms can predict who that will be at this moment, given that there are several franchises jostling for fourth to eighth place, many currently tied. Why is it so important to arrive at least second? For the home field advantage in the decisive post season. To have the play-off at home until the eventual final. In the first leg, against Oleggio, Bcl was forced to abdicate by a whisker. "It will be a very fascinating match – says coach Olivieri –, because it will pit two teams with very different playing philosophies against each other. The key will be to assert our identity over theirs throughout the match. Controlling the pace will be fundamental. In the first leg we showed that we can play it all the way to the end. The infirmary situation is improving, Drocker will be available and Tempestini is making good progress with his recovery, but he won't be in the twelve yet". On the other bench the "former" Catalani: in the national "B" in the 2019-2020 season, the one interrupted by the pandemic. Let's close with some numbers. 12 wins and 4 losses for Bcl at home; 13 wins and 3 losses for Oleggio away; only one match to make the difference between the two teams. The count of baskets made and conceded is also substantially equal: 79.6 the average of those made for Bcl, against 86.8 for the Piedmontese. The percentage of average points conceded by Bcl is better, standing at 70.9 against 79.4 for Oleggio. Drocker's recovery was decisive; Tempestini will return to the final phase. Metrics details Personally familiar faces are processed more robustly and efficiently than unfamiliar faces The human face processing system comprises a core system that analyzes the visual appearance of faces and an extended system for the retrieval of person-knowledge and other nonvisual information We applied multivariate pattern analysis to fMRI data to investigate aspects of familiarity that are shared by all familiar identities and information that distinguishes specific face identities from each other Both identity-independent familiarity information and face identity could be decoded in an overlapping set of areas in the core and extended systems Representational similarity analysis revealed a clear distinction between the two systems and a subdivision of the core system into ventral This study provides evidence that activity in the extended system carries information about both individual identities and personal familiarity while clarifying and extending the organization of the core system for face perception we showed that the representation of face identity is progressively disentangled from image-specific features along the ventral visual pathway While early visual cortex and the OFA represented head view independently of the identity of the face we recorded an intermediate level of representation in the FFA in which identity was emerging but was still entangled with head view The human face processing pathway culminated in the right ATFA and IFG-FA where we recorded a view-invariant representation of face identity Because the core and extended systems have been mostly studied separately we lack a clear understanding of how personal familiarity consolidated through repeated interactions affects the representations in the core system and how core and extended systems interact to create the known behavioral advantages for personally familiar faces showing that this effect captured factors that were common across familiar faces and invariant across identities and reveal a finer subdivision of this system into ventral images were presented in sequences of three pictures of the same identity (normal trial) or two different identities (oddball trials) in front-view or 30-degree profile views Subjects engaged in an oddball-detection task to ensure that they paid attention to each stimulus Cluster-corrected (p < 0.05) z-values for the univariate contrast Familiar > Unfamiliar Abbreviations: IPL: inferior parietal lobule; mFus: middle fusiform gyrus; aFus: anterior fusiform gyrus; TPJ: temporo-parietal junction; MTG/STS: middle temporal gyrus/superior temporal sulcus; Precun: precuneus; MPFC: medial prefrontal cortex; IFG: inferior frontal gyrus Searchlight maps for the Familiarity classification projected onto the surface Maps were thresholded at a z-TFCE score of 1.65 corresponding to p < 0.05 one-tailed (corrected for multiple comparisons) Abbreviations: mFus: middle fusiform gyrus; aFus: anterior fusiform gyrus; TPJ: temporo-parietal junction; MTG/STS: middle temporal gyrus/superior temporal sulcus; Precun: precuneus; MPFC: medial prefrontal cortex; IFG: inferior frontal gyrus (A) Comparison of the univariate analysis of familiarity with the MVPA familiarity decoding The x-axis shows z-values from the univariate contrast Familiar > Unfamiliar The y-axis shows the z-values of the Familiarity classification across identities Colors depict voxel position in Posterior-to-Anterior (Blue-to-Red) direction Some but not complete correspondence exists between the two maps showing that the multivariate analyses leveraged additional information other than magnitude differences (B) Comparison of cross-validation schemes for the familiarity decoding The x-axis shows z-values from the familiarity classification using the leave-2-identities-out scheme The y-axis shows the same classification using a common leave-one-run-out scheme The leave-two-identities-out scheme successfully controls for identity visual information as can be seen by the overall lower z-values for voxels belonging to the occipital cortex Searchlight maps for the Identity classification The classification was run separately for familiar and unfamiliar identities (4-way) Abbreviations: OccFus: occipital fusiform gyrus; pFus: posterior fusiform gyrus; mFus: middle fusiform gyrus; TPJ: temporo-parietal Junction; MTG/STS: middle temporal gyrus/superior temporal sulcus; dPrecun: dorsal precuneus; MPFC: medial prefrontal cortex; IFG: inferior frontal gyrus Spherical ROIs used to analyze the similarity of representational geometries. Top row shows left sagittal slices; middle row shows right sagittal slices; bottom row shows axial slices. Regions are color coded according to the system they belong to. Grey dotted lines between ROIs indicates that they were contiguous but not overlapping (see Methods for details). The first two dimensions of the MDS solution captured relationships among areas in the ventral portion of the core system in the first dimension and relationships among areas in the dorsal and anterior parts of the core system and areas in the extended system in the second dimension The first dimension showed a progression from EV areas to the posterior Extended system areas were all at the distant end of the first dimension as were the areas in the dorsal part of the core system (MTG/STS) and the IFG The second dimension captured distinctions among these extended and core system areas with the precuneus areas clustered together at one end and the dorsal and anterior core system areas at the other end In this experiment we investigated how familiar and unfamiliar faces are represented in the distributed neural system for face perception We distinguished between familiarity information abstracted from the visual appearance of the faces and the identification of individual faces controlling for the added information of personal familiarity These analyses revealed an extensive network of areas that carry information about face familiarity and identity replicating with a larger sample size previous studies that used univariate analyses and also providing more details about the type of information present in those areas We then analyzed the second-order representational geometry of this extensive network revealing a clear distinction between the core and the extended systems for face perception and a new subdivision of the areas in the core system The hierarchy of areas proposed in this work provides a testable model for future studies aimed at further characterizing the transformations operating on the representation of faces from retinotopic input to higher order areas we teased apart neural responses due to factors that are shared by familiar faces from factors that are specific to familiar and unfamiliar identities While standard univariate analyses necessarily conflate identity information with familiarity information we used different cross-validation schemes in the MVPC to separate familiarity information from identity information To separate identity-independent familiarity information from identity-specific visual information we used a cross-validation scheme in MVPC of face familiarity in which we tested the classifier on identities that were not included in the training data To investigate identity-specific information that was independent of familiarity we tested MVPC of familiar and unfamiliar identities separately Univariate and multivariate analyses were complementary in that they tested different properties of the BOLD response (differences in mean activations vs patterns): the two resulting maps showed some but not complete correspondence highlighting that multivariate analyses leveraged additional information other than magnitude differences MVPC of familiarity was designed to test for a familiarity effect that was not specific to familiar individuals revealing that this network does carry such identity-independent information about the familiarity of faces Both the univariate and MVPC results expand the areas reported previously to include additional areas that are components of the dorsal and anterior core system for face perception in the MTG/STS We suspect that our relatively large sample size made it possible to identify this more extensive network while areas of the core and extended systems showed stronger responses If the stronger response to familiar faces in core and extended system areas were due to spontaneous attention one would also expect a stronger response in the IPL and other attention-related cortical areas suggesting that feedback processes might have contributed to the significant familiarity decoding in early visual areas future studies with paradigms designed to address the nature of these feedback processes are needed to further test this possibility We did not find a significant difference in MVPC of familiar identities as compared to MVPC of unfamiliar identities despite the large number of subjects in this study There was a nonsignificant trend towards higher MVPC accuracies for familiar identities in the IFG and MTG/STS but more work explicitly designed to investigate view-invariant representations of identity is needed to establish whether these trends are real Our results revealed new structure in the distributed system for face perception suggesting that the core system can be subdivided into ventral and anterior components based on differences of representations The anterior portion of the core system may be the point at which the ventral and dorsal pathways converge to generate view-independent representations of identity and of socially-relevant visual information Identity-independent information about familiarity could be decoded in extended system areas such as the TPJ as well as in dorsal and anterior core system areas such as the MTG/STS these results reveal new information about how face perception one of the most highly developed and socially relevant visual functions is realized in an extensive distributed system involving cortical fields in occipital Thirty-three young adults participated in the experiment (mean age 23 y.o They were recruited from the Dartmouth College community and all had normal or corrected-to-normal vision Prior to the imaging study we took pictures of four friends for each participant to use as familiar stimuli Some of these friends also were study participants (pictures of 76 individuals were taken as familiar stimuli) Photos of unfamiliar individuals were collected at the University of Vermont (Burlington) using the same camera and lighting conditions All individuals signed written informed consent to use their pictures for research and in publications subjects were screened for MRI compliance and provided informed consent The study was approved by the Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects at Dartmouth College and was conducted according to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki Participants received monetary compensation for their time The stimuli for the fMRI experiment were pictures portraying different familiar and unfamiliar identities: four friends’ faces For each identity we used three images with different head orientations: frontal view and 30-degree profiles to the left and right with gaze towards the camera All photos on both sites (Dartmouth College and University of Vermont) were taken using the same consumer-grade digital camera in a dedicated photo-studio room with black background and uniform lighting Each familiar face was matched with an unfamiliar individual face 3 head positions) were used in the experimental design per each subject Stimuli were presented to the subjects in the MRI scanner using a projection screen positioned at the rear of the scanner and viewed through a mirror mounted on the head coil The original high-resolution digital images were cropped to include the face from the top of the head to the neck visible under the chin Images subtended approximately 10×10 degrees of visual angle The stimuli were presented using a slow event-related design while subjects were engaged in a simple oddball task (Fig. 1) A typical trial consisted of three different images of the same individual one of the three images was of a different individual The order of head orientations within trials was randomized The task was included to make sure that subjects paid attention to the identity of the faces subjects had a short practice session with each condition (one trial for each of 9 identities and one catch trial) to be familiarized with the design and the stimuli The order of the events was pseudo-randomized to approximate a first-order counterbalancing of conditions64 A functional run comprised 48 trials: four trials for each of the nine individuals (four familiar four oddball and four buffer trials (three at the beginning and one at the end) The buffer trials were added to optimize the trial order and were discarded from the analysis Each run had 10 seconds of fixation at the beginning (to stabilize the hemodynamic response) and at the end (to collect the response to the last trials) Each session consisted of 11 functional runs resulting in 396 non-oddball trials (44 for each of the nine identities) Slices were acquired in the Philips-specific interleaved order (slice step of 6 ceiled square root of total number of slices) Each of the 11 functional runs included 154 dynamic scans with 4 dummy scans for a total time of 316 seconds per run After the functional runs a single high-resolution T1-weighted (TE/TR = 3.7/8.2 ms) anatomical scan was acquired with a 3D-TFE sequence The voxel resolution was 0.938 × 0.938 × 1.0 mm with a bounding box matrix of 256 × 256 × 160 (FOV = 240 × 240 × 160 mm) We used a standard FSL preprocessing pipeline (FEAT) as implemented in Nipype (nipype.preprocess.create_featreg_preproc) and the first volume of the first run as a reference for EPI alignment the BOLD time-series were masked with a dilated gray-matter mask The preprocessed data were then used for a GLM and MVPA analysis with additional preprocessing steps as described in the following sections The affine and nonlinear transformations were then combined to reslice the reference volume and all the functional volumes and second-level betas into the MNI template Results from this registration pipeline were visually inspected for each subject The C parameter was set to the PyMVPA default which scales it according to the mean norm of the training data resulting in a leave-one-run-out scheme (11 splits) To remove the effect of familiarity on classification of face identity we performed identity classification independently for familiar and unfamiliar identities as well as selecting only gray- and white-matter voxels in the cerebrum we selected nearby voxels contained in a sphere and used them as features for classification The classifier’s accuracy was stored in the central voxel and the process was repeated for every voxel the number of possible average maps for identity classification was 2033 and for familiarity classification was 3533 ROIs contained 412 voxels at a 2 mm isotropic resolution (SD: 73 voxels) we z-scored the beta estimates within each run which were computed as described in the MVPA Preprocessing section we divided all runs into two partitions of six and five runs and averaged the beta values within each partition The data between these two partitions were correlated (Pearson correlation) to obtain an 8x8 matrix of dissimilarities between pairs of identities Note that because correlations were computed between data from two different partitions This process was repeated for every possible combination of runs yielding 462 RDMs that were averaged to obtain a final RDM for each ROI and each subject The final RDMs were made symmetrical by averaging them with their transpose All averaging operations were performed on Fisher-transformed (r-to-z) correlation values then mapped back to correlation using the inverse transformation Because data were in two different resolutions of the same template (task: MNI 2 mm; movie: MNI 3 mm) center coordinates of the spherical ROIs were recalculated assigning the closest voxel in MNI 3 mm using Euclidean distance The median displacement was 1.41 mm (min: 1 mm spherical ROIs were drawn around these center voxels using a radius of 9 mm (3 voxels) to account for the different voxel size Overlapping voxels were assigned to the ROI with the closest center resulting in possibly contiguous but not overlapping ROIs On average ROIs contained 100 voxels (SD: 20 voxels) The final matrix containing dissimilarity indices was then used to compute an MDS solution as described previously Distributed neural systems for face perception In Oxford Handbook of Face Perception (eds Calder 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Available at: http://www.scipy.org/ (2001) Gautier, L. rpy2: A Simple and Efficient Access to R from Python. http://rpy.sourceforge.net/rpy2.html (2008) Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models using lme4 SUMA: an interface for surface-based intra- and inter-subject analysis with AFNI In 2004 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: Nano to Macro (IEEE Cat No Download references the members of the GobbiniLab and HaxbyLab for helpful comments and discussions on this work and Courtney Rogers for invaluable help with subject recruitment We would also like to thank Satrajit Ghosh and Anne Park for sharing the original preprocessing pipeline Matteo Visconti di Oleggio Castello and Yaroslav O Halchenko contributed equally to this work Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences provided analytic tools and critical input to the manuscript The authors declare that they have no competing interests Download citation DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-12559-1 is currently under contract with theOlimpia Milan and on loan to Oleggio in Serie B of the American sirens that could soon fascinate the 2007 class According to what was reported by Orazio Cauchi, in fact, several American colleges are following Luigi Suigo. Among these there would also be BYU, Brigham Young University, which for the next season has already recruited AJ Dybantsa, One of the best prospects of American high school Currently Suigo has produced 7.5 points per game in 11 outings this season with the Oleggio jersey The current Olimpia prospect is a center of 2 meters and 16 with great presence under the basket but also a great hand: characteristics that could make him a dynamic and modern player These skills have put him at the center of attention of American colleges and now the choice will be up to him: continue his apprenticeship in Europe or try to make the leap like many others have done before him email and website in this browser for the next time I comment Source: goal.com « Prev Next » Comments (12) Listen to Article Emmanuel Akwa-dei Agyemang So, three teams at 24: Empoli is fifth with 2-0 in the direct comparisons with Pavia and for the 1-1 with Arezzo: total 3 wins and one loss); Arezzo 1-1 with both Empoli and Pavia: total 2-2; and Pavia 0-2 with Empoli and 1-1 with Arezzo: total 1-3. So, fifth Empoli, sixth Arezzo, seventh Pavia. Since they did not play against each other in the second phase, it was necessary to go and check the first, where there is a 1-1. The pairings: Oleggio-Quarrata; Lucca-Pavia (Lombards "black beast" of the red and whites, defeated by the Pavia team both in the first and second leg); San Miniato-Arezzo; Borgomanero-Empoli. Game one on May 11th at the "Palatagliate". This, in theory, since there will be a fair amount of crowds: sports hall to share with Herons Montecatini (in "B" national), but also with Libertas and Le Mura. JUNIOR CASALE MONFERRATO: Giacomelli 8, Bovo 11, Sirchia 18, Formenti, Avonto 20, Speroni, Kabuya, Raiteri 8, Di Giuliomaria, Tambwe 5, Rosso 2. Coach: Vigneri.BASKETBALL CLUB LUCCA: Coach: Olivieri.Referees: Bavera of Desio and Venice of Milan.Footnotes: partials 24-22, 41-49, 54-66. In the second half, Trentin's show continues, in addition to the substance of Vignali and Simonetti; Del Debbio's triple for 44-59 and +12 at 30'. In the last segment, the Olivieri band manages, the Savoys come back to -8, but BCL gets back to +16 at 35'. Game over. A significant change of direction is looming for the prestigious Zegna Group part of the production of its Swiss subsidiary Consitex will leave the Canton of Ticino to return to Italy as reported by sources close to the company would be motivated mainly by the high cost of labor in Switzerland a factor that increasingly affects the competitiveness of production specialized in high-end weaving and an integral part of the Zegna supply chain had established its presence in Ticino half a century ago benefiting at the time from favorable economic conditions and a qualified workforce with a progressive increase in the cost of Swiss labor that has made it less sustainable to maintain the entire production capacity abroad unchanged The transfer of part of the activities to Oleggio represents a return to the roots for the Zegna Group which has always been proud of its connection with the Italian territory and its manufacturing tradition of excellence This strategic move could allow the company to optimize production costs while maintaining high quality standards thanks to the Italian know-how in the textile sector The implications of this decision are multiple the return of production activities could represent an opportunity for the economic fabric of Oleggio and the Novara area with potential positive effects on employment the partial relocation will inevitably lead to a reorganization of Consitex's activities in Ticino The Zegna Group has not yet made any official statements on the matter would mark a major shift in the menswear giant’s production strategy with a renewed focus on “Made in Italy” as a distinctive and competitive element in the global luxury market It remains to be seen what the next steps will be and how this move will fit into the group’s broader growth strategy Direttore Editoriale: Raffaele Minervini direttore@montenapodaily.com Direttore Responsabile: Cristiano Tassinari Coordinamento: Gianluigi Minervini redazione@montenapodaily.com Proprietario ed editore: Montenapo Daily S.r.l.s @ 2020 - All rights reserved. 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