passive_fist

I don't usually submit articles to Discussion, but this news upset me so much that I think there is a real need to talk about it. http://www.nature.com/news/faked-peer-reviews-prompt-64-retractions-1.18202 > A leading scientific publisher has retracted 64 articles in 10 journals, after an internal investigation discovered fabricated peer-review reports linked to the...

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There is a new paper out by Sanguinetti, Allen, and Peterson, The Ground Side of an Object: Perceived as Shapeless yet Processed for Semantics. In it, the authors conduct a series of experiments to try to answer the question of how the brain separates background from foreground in visual processing....