The aim of this work is to further our understanding of how humans process and recognise faces. We are doing this by proceeding in parallel with testing subjects and building computer models. If a model reflects the way that humans process face images, it ought, among other things, to fail in the same way: to find the same faces easy or difficult. One characteristic of human recognition is that...

Graphical password is an alternative method of authentication to alphanumerical passwords. From the perspective of research on human memory, it is yet another novel technology that introduces challenges on human memory components. In this study, we aim to investigate the previous findings in human visual memory in the domain of graphical passwords by analyzing the role of visual coherence in pa...

Mnemonics are learning techniques that make for greater memorability and help improve long term memory. Commonly encountered mnemonics are usually verbal, such as an acronym, a short poem or mathematical relations for numerical data. Mnemonics may also be visual, kinesthetic or auditory. Mnemonics are based on the observation that the human mind much more easily remembers and retrieves surprisi...

The need for a symbol to warn of potential infection hazards became apparent during Public Health Service contract work on the development of containment facilities for virus-leukemia research. A program of direct inquiry and a search of the literature revealed that there was no universally used signal and that scientific and safety organizations concurred in the need for one. Criteria for symb...

Recommendations for managing wildlife damage situations often involve application of multiple methods or techniques. The basis for such recommendations is unclear as there is little evidence that such combinations of methods work more effectively than the individual methods alone. In order to improve beyond hit or miss repellent applications, we should adopt principles exhibited in nature and d...

Generation often leads to increased memorability within a laboratory context (see, e.g., Slamecka & Graf, 1978). Of interest in the present study is whether the benefits of generation extend beyond item memory to context memory. To investigate this question, in three experiments, we asked subjects to remember in which of two contexts they had read or generated words. In Experiment 1, the contex...