Disfluencies can affect language comprehension, but to date, most studies have focused on disfluent pauses such as er. We investigated whether disfluent repetitions in speech have discernible effects on listeners during language comprehension, and whether repetitions affect the linguistic processing of subsequent words in speech in ways which have been previously observed withers. We used event...

User authentication can be defined as the process of proving the user’s identity. Three typical categories of user authentication are based on users’ knowledge (i.e. PIN and Passwords), users’ possession (i.e. Smart Card and Token) and users’ characteristics (i.e. Iris and typing pattern). This paper presents an extensive review related to password-based authentication and then reports the late...

Two experiments were carried out on how questions are remembered. Subjects watched a videotape of a series of simple events and then answered 18 questions about these events. The questions were all of the same general syntactic form (e.g., "Did the pencil fall against the jug on A?", where A refers to a particular location). They were designed to elicit three sorts of answer: "yes," "no" becaus...

This article describes a novel, clinically oriented classification system for long-bone fractures that is simple, reliable, and useful to predict treatment method, complications, and outcome. The reliability and memorability of the new classification were statistically tested and compared with the AO-Müller/Orthopaedic Trauma Association (AO/OTA) long-bone fracture classification. The proposed ...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND/STUDY CONTEXT: A growing literature suggests that older adults are biased to preferentially cognitively process positively valenced information. The authors investigated whether this bias extended to preferential selection of information to remember, and also examined whether the arousal invoked by stimuli biased item selection and memory. METHODS Thirty older (63-88 yea...

Recent studies have found that processing information according to an evolutionary relevant (i.e., survival) scenario improves its subsequent memorability, potentially as a result of fitness advantages gained in the ancestral past. So far, research has not revealed much about any proximate mechanisms that might underlie this so-called survival processing advantage in memory. Intriguingly, resea...

This paper investigates the interplay among human cognitive processing differences (field dependence vs. field independence), alternative interaction device types (desktop vs. touch) and user authentication schemes (textual vs. graphical) towards task completion efficiency and effectiveness. A four-month user study (N 1⁄4 164) was performed under the light of the field dependence-independence t...

Human observers naturally remember certain stimuli such as face/scene images with overwhelming consistency. This phenomenon has been attributed to stimulus memorability, which may reflect an ensemble perceptual attribute that enhances the long-term retention of visual information. However, how this property contributes memory formation is yet fully understood. Here, we test hypothesis memorabil...