Whether You Know it or Not; Applied Research is the Boss

Geriatrics: in our residents' future whether they know it and like it or not.

The American population—and, indeed, the world’s population— is getting older. Worldwide, over the next 40 years, the number of the people over 60 is expected to increase threefold to reach nearly 2 billion. One in every five people on the planet will be 60 years or older, and one in six will be least 65 years old.1 The situation is similar in the United States, where the number of people over ...

Visual recognition: as soon as you know it is there, you know what it is.

What is the sequence of processing steps involved in visual object recognition? We varied the exposure duration of natural images and measured subjects' performance on three different tasks, each designed to tap a different candidate component process of object recognition. For each exposure duration, accuracy was lower and reaction time longer on a within-category identification task (e.g., di...

Whether we know it or not, our educational perceptions and decisions are shaped by "race".

RACE IS A SENSITIVE SUBJECT to most people. Most people think that, because they do not intentionally judge people on their race, they never do. However, everyone has been socialized, in one way or another, to judge people based on race. Often, we do not realize how implicitly held attitudes about race shape the decisions we make. Accordingly, it is of great value to discuss how implicit biases...

Object detection and basic-level categorization: sometimes you know it is there before you know what it is.

A tight temporal coupling between object detection (is an object there?) and object categorization (what kind of object is it?) has recently been reported (Grill-Spector & Kanwisher, 2005), suggesting that image segmentation into different objects and categorization of those objects at the basic level may be the very same mechanism. In the present work, we decoupled the time course of detection...

Has ethics changed or is it currently not being applied?