Higher Height, Higher Ability: Judgment Confidence as a Function of Spatial Height Perception

Higher Height, Higher Ability: Judgment Confidence as a Function of Spatial Height Perception

Based on grounded cognition theories, the current study showed that judgments about ability were regulated by the subjects' perceptions of their spatial height. In Experiment 1, we found that after seeing the ground from a higher rather than lower floor, people had higher expectations about their performance on a knowledge test and assigned themselves higher rank positions in a peer comparison ...

Confidence as Higher-Order Uncertainty

With conflicting evidence, a reasoning system derives uncertain conclusions. If the system is open to new evidence, it faces additionally a higher-order uncertainty, because the first-order uncertainty evaluations are uncertain themselves — they can be changed by future evidence. A new measurement, confidence, is introduced for this higher-order uncertainty. It is defined in terms of the amount...

A diallel analysis of height in wheat

Scaling effects in the perception of higher-order spatial correlations

Human texture discrimination depends both on spatial-frequency content and on higher-order or multi-point correlations. Spatial-frequency discrimination exhibits a high degree of scale invariance over a range of several octaves, but the scaling behavior of sensitivity to higher-order correlation structure is unknown. We explored the scale dependence of texture discrimination for image ensembles...

Height Function on Domino Tilings

We first define the height function on a domino tiling (as done in [1]) and state some of its basic properties. We then revisit the coupling function and relate it to Green’s function, which allows us to conclude that the coupling function converges in the limit to an analytic function with a pole. Using this, we do a general second moment calculation via the proof found in [1] which writes the...