We investigate a measure of \dominant perceived orienta-tion" that has recently been developed to match the output of a human study involving 40 subjects. The results of this measure are compared with humans analyzing seven \teaser" images to test its eeectiveness for nding perceptually dominant orientations. The use of low-level orientation is then applied to a \quick search" problem important...

Most early studies of consciousness have focused on human subjects. This is understandable, given that humans are capable of reporting accurately the events they experience through language or by way of other kinds of voluntary response. As researchers turn their attention to other animals, "accurate report" methodologies become increasingly difficult to apply. Alternative strategies for amassi...

Intelligence analysts require innovative software environments for searching massive databases, hypothesis generation and test, record keeping, crosschecking and so on. Yet, as important as such tools are, their development cannot be allowed to ignore the hard won lessons from cognitive science and humancomputer interaction – that human cognition is embodied cognition and that interface design ...

This study quantitatively describes the host-searching behavior of Fopius arisanus (Sonan) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), an important egg-larval parasitoid of tephritid fruit fly pests, on coffee berries infested with host eggs of the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) (Diptera: Tephritidae). We also investigate the parasitoid’s response to local variation in host patch qualit...