Hair Color and Skin Color Together Influence Perceptions of Age, Health, and Attractiveness in Lightly-Pigmented, Young Women.

Objective: Research documents that even subtle changes in visible skin condition affect perceptions of age, health, and attractiveness. There is evidence that hair quality also affects the assessment of physical appearance, as variations in hair diameter, hair density, and hair style have systematic effects on perception. Here, we consider combined effects of hair color and skin color on the perception of female physical appearance.

Moving Objects in the Barn Owl's Auditory World.

Barn owls are keen hunters of moving prey. They have evolved an auditory system with impressive anatomical and physiological specializations for localizing their prey. Here we present behavioural data on the owl's sensitivity for discriminating acoustic motion direction in azimuth that, for the first time, allow a direct comparison of neuronal and perceptual sensitivity for acoustic motion in the same model species.

[Taste and psychotherapy].

In 86 patients, the acuity of the chemical senses has been proved before and after a psychotherapeutic treatment over seven weeks in hospital. There were no fundamental changes in smell, whereas the taste acuity has changed. After treatment, the latter, however, was less in those patients who had previously considered themselves less acute.

[Ultrasonic doppler sonographic measurements of blood flow changes during basic exercises of autogenic training].

Experimental studies for proving the psychophysical influence on the whole organism in the course of autogenous training are discussed. As compared to other procedures, ultrasonic Doppler sonography permits to demonstrate changes in the blood flow directly on the vessels. Test persons who have a command of the basic autogenous exercises showed significant differences in the course of the exercises and also in comparison with persons having no experience in autogenous training.