A Confession - We Do Look Alike

Do we all look alike to computers ?

intensity target in the middle frame. Again, this implies a sub-optimal strategy for detecting the target, as these early bar intensities are independent of the presence or absence of the target. Neri and Heeger interpret this to mean that these early high-contrast signals are engaging a separate 'attentional' mechanism that is used to detect the target. They ran a clever second experiment in w...

Do we all look alike to computers?

People are better able to recognize faces of their own race than those of other races. One explanation is that this 'other-race effect' is caused by lifelong experience in which faces from some races are more common than other races. A recent article by Furl et al. tests experience-based accounts of the other-race effect by giving computer algorithms of face recognition training on preponderant...

Look-alike, sound-alike drugs in India

The Indian pharmaceutical market is swamped with many branded and generic drugs which look-alike and sound-alike. These are a nightmare for healthcare professionals who deal with them. These drugs overlap in strength, dosage, indications, and storage conditions and packaging as well. The risks due to look-alike, sound-alike drug names result when a pharmacist or healthcare professional accident...

Look-alike, sound-alike oncology medications.

Confusing medication names and packaging may cause or contribute to potentially harmful medication errors. The names of several chemotherapy and supportive agents can look or sound like the names of other chemotherapy agents or unrelated medications and can be inadvertently interchanged, or mixed up. Poor handwriting, abbreviations of medication names, unclear verbal medication orders, memory l...

Do We Know What We Do not Know? A Response to Celine Bonnet