Since our data allows a direct comparison of the two approaches, we are able to rule out some potential explanations lined up by past research for the observed discrepancy between the two models.
One possible explanation in line with the idea of diagnosticity is that features most relevant for the task are channelled through to higher areas for processing so, for the gender discrimination, the relevant eye region (Gosselin & Schyns, 2001) might be activated in recurrent loops leading to sustained activity that is not differential to male and female images (i.e. ceiling effects).
In the background there's the specter of Eight Belles (see Peter J. Boyer for more on that) which may be the most generous explanation for lines like this, in a column in today's Times: How much money and self-esteem does one long-striding, young female need?
Expression of two candidate regulator proteins, Hsp70 and XIAP, did not provide an explanation: cell lines with poor response to cytochrome c did not express higher levels of these inhibitory proteins than good responders.
The physician responds with an explanation for this line of questioning (line 8), which suggests that he may feel that these questions are intrusive.
He ended his explanation with the line "Ecce homo.
Mr. Foreman offered an explanation for the line: "Nietzsche locked himself inside his madness, but he did come back.
The explanation from his line manager lacked credibility, she said, and she could "only speculate as to what effect this [delay] had on the investigation".
Whatever the explanation, the bottom line is the same for the school's fund-raisers, and potentially the annual-giving representatives at similar colleges throughout the country.
The filmmakers reduce Ms. Sobel's thorough explanation to a line: "To tell one's longitude, you need to know the time aboard ship and time at home port".
But the more likely explanation forms a line from 1973 to today.
