scholarly journals Automatic Encoding of Visual Numerosity

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 316
Author(s):  
Nicholas DeWind ◽  
Marty Woldorff ◽  
Elizabeth Brannon
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2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gina T Bednarek ◽  
Kristin Shutts

The present research tested whether three-year-old children – like older children and adults – automatically encode other people’s gender. Three-year-old participants (N = 24) learned facts about unfamiliar target children who varied in gender and were asked to remember facts about the targets during a test phase. At test, children made more within-category memory errors (e.g., misattributing a fact associated with one girl to another girl) than between-category errors (e.g., misattributing a fact associated with a girl to a boy). The findings suggest that at least as early as three years of age, children automatically encode whether someone is a boy or a girl upon first meeting them. The results have implications for our understanding of the automaticity and emergence of stereotyping processes.


Author(s):  
Antonio Prieto ◽  
Vanesa Peinado ◽  
Julia Mayas

AbstractVisual working memory has been defined as a system of limited capacity that enables the maintenance and manipulation of visual information. However, some perceptual features like Gestalt grouping could improve visual working memory effectiveness. In two different experiments, we aimed to explore how the presence of elements grouped by color similarity affects the change detection performance of both, grouped and non-grouped items. We combined a change detection task with a retrocue paradigm in which a six item array had to be remembered. An always valid, variable-delay retrocue appeared in some trials during the retention interval, either after 100 ms (iconic-trace period) or 1400 ms (working memory period), signaling the location of the probe. The results indicated that similarity grouping biased the information entered into the visual working memory, improving change detection accuracy only for previously grouped probes, but hindering change detection for non-grouped probes in certain conditions (Exp. 1). However, this bottom-up automatic encoding bias was overridden when participants were explicitly instructed to ignore grouped items as they were irrelevant for the task (Exp. 2).


1975 ◽  
Vol 14 (02) ◽  
pp. 72-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. H. Graepel ◽  
D. E. Henson ◽  
A. W. Pratt

Any discussion of the use of the Systematized Nomenclature of Pathology (SNOP) requires comprehension of the principles of organization of SNOP.SNOP is a categorized nomenclature which lists »names« of elements and concepts of pathology. SNOP contains four lists of pathology names and concepts known as TOPOGRAPHY, MORPHOLO-GY, ETIOLOGY and FUNCTION. ‘Clearly, SNOP is not a diagnostic code or a coded medical terminology ; to use SNOP the user must specify the coding structure. Thus SNOP is a basis for building a medical data code. The advantage of a categorized nomenclature is that it is possible to construct a well-defined information space for medical data based on the semantic value of the data and apart from some predetermined numeric code where terms are assigned as a function of the number structure.Thus it has been possible to explore the automatic processing of pathology language data. An automatic encoding capability has been used at NIH to encode surgical pathology data. These encoded data were used to study the deficiencies of SNOP and to evaluate new structures for a truly categorized nomenclature of medicine.This new lexical structure can only be achieved if the pathologists waive traditional practices of assigning names to concepts of pathology and allow for new dimensions of medical ways of thinking which go beyond pure morphology.


1985 ◽  
Vol CE-31 (3) ◽  
pp. 290-300
Author(s):  
Takahiro Fujimori ◽  
Tadashi Fujiwara ◽  
Masaichi Ishibashi ◽  
Kousuke Komatsu ◽  
Tadahiko Nakamura ◽  
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Entropy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingchun Piao ◽  
Yunfan Chen ◽  
Hyunchul Shin

In this paper, we present a new effective infrared (IR) and visible (VIS) image fusion method by using a deep neural network. In our method, a Siamese convolutional neural network (CNN) is applied to automatically generate a weight map which represents the saliency of each pixel for a pair of source images. A CNN plays a role in automatic encoding an image into a feature domain for classification. By applying the proposed method, the key problems in image fusion, which are the activity level measurement and fusion rule design, can be figured out in one shot. The fusion is carried out through the multi-scale image decomposition based on wavelet transform, and the reconstruction result is more perceptual to a human visual system. In addition, the visual qualitative effectiveness of the proposed fusion method is evaluated by comparing pedestrian detection results with other methods, by using the YOLOv3 object detector using a public benchmark dataset. The experimental results show that our proposed method showed competitive results in terms of both quantitative assessment and visual quality.


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