The rich literature on multiple object tracking (MOT) conclusively demonstrates that humans are able to visually track a small number of objects. There is considerably less agreement on what perceptual and cognitive processes are involved. While it is clear that MOT is attentionally demanding, various accounts of MOT performance centrally involve pre-attentional mechanisms as well. In this pape...

Research in automatic speech and speaker recognition has now spanned five decades. This paper surveys the major themes and advances made in the past fifty years of research so as to provide a technological perspective and an appreciation of the fundamental progress that has been accomplished in this important area of speech communication. Although many techniques have been developed, many chall...

The physical behavior of moving fluids is highly complex, yet people are able to interact with them in their everyday lives with relative ease. To investigate how humans achieve this remarkable ability, the present study extended the classical water-pouring problem (Schwartz & Black, 1999) to examine how humans take into consideration physical properties of fluids (e.g., viscosity) and perceptu...

Generalization to new examples is an essential aspect of categorization. However, recent category learning research has not focused on how people generalize their category knowledge. Taking generalization to be a critical basis for evaluating formal models of category learning, we employed a ‘minimal case’ approach to begin a systematic investigation of generalization. Human participants receiv...

Future vehicle systems for active pedestrian safety will not only require a high recognition performance, but also an accurate analysis of the developing traffic situation. In this paper, we present a system for pedestrian action classification (walking vs. stopping) and path prediction at short, sub-second time intervals. Apart from the use of positional cues, obtained by a pedestrian detector...

This is a position paper concerning the role of empirical studies of human default reasoning in the formalization of AI theories of default reasoning. We note that AI motivates its theoretical enterprise by reference to human skill at default reasoning, but that the actual research does not make any use of this sort of information and instead relies on intuitions of individual investigators. We...

Under the leadership of HRA, a committee comprised of HRA staff and representatives from a consortium of community providers, Human Care Alliance (HCA), was convened. The committee, the Community Programs Outcomes Reporting Committee, building upon the past successes of another community process, developed a work plan that included establishing common definitions for outcome reporting, informat...

This paper argues that phones and phonemes play almost no psychological role in human speech perception, production or memory. Instead, people store language in memory with a rich, detailed auditory and coupled sensory-motor code that is idiosyncratic to the speaker. The evidence is overwhelming that linguistic memory consists of rich, highly redundant (and idiosyncratic) memories of heard lang...

Covassin and Crutcher are with the Dept. Of Kinesiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. Elbin is with the Dept. of Health, Human Performance and Recreation, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR. Burkhart and Kontos are with the Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. The Relationship Between Coping, Neurocognitive Performance, and Concussion Sym...