A critical flaw in Branigan & Pickering's (B&P's) advocacy of structural priming is the absence of a theory of priming. This undermines their claims about the value of priming as a methodology. In contrast, acceptability judgments enable clearer inferences about structure. It is important to engage thoroughly with the logic behind different structural diagnostics.

We describe a new no-reference blur index for still images based on a singular value curve (SVC). The algorithm is composed of two steps. First, the singular value decomposition is performed on the image to be blur-assessed. Then an image blur index is constructed from the singular value curve. Experimental results obtained on four simulated blur databases and on the Real Blur Image Database sh...

Intertemporal choices involve assessing options with different reward amounts available at time delays. The similarity approach to intertemporal choice focuses on judging how similar and delays are. Yet we do not fully understand the cognitive process of these judgments are made. Here, use machine-learning algorithms predict (1) investigate which best judgments, (2) assess predictors most usefu...

Western cultures encourage self-construals independent of social contexts, whereas East Asian cultures foster interdependent self-construals that rely on how others perceive the self. How are culturally specific self-construals mediated by the human brain? Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we monitored neural responses from adults in East Asian (Chinese) and Western (Danish) cultural...

Eliciting expert judgments for evaluating the performance of structured prediction systems (e.g., search engines, recommender systems) is labor-intensive and costly. This raises the question of how to get high-quality performance estimates given a relatively small budget of judgments. In this paper, we provide theoretically justified – yet highly practical and efficient – methods for selecting ...

This study investigated the neuronal basis of evaluative judgment. Judgments can be defined as the assessment of an external or internal stimulus on an internal scale and they are fundamental for decision-making and other cognitive processes. Evaluative judgments (I like George W. Bush: yes/no) are a special type of judgment, in which the internal scale is related to the person's value system (...

In this article a broad perspective incorporating elements of time series theory is presented for conceptualizing the data obtained in multi-trial judgment experiments. Recent evidence suggests that sequential context effects, assimilation and contrast, commonly found in psychophysical judgment tasks, may be present in judgments of abstract magnitudes. A time series approach for analyzing singl...

Abstract. Discussed in this paper is a quite unique and novel intelligence decision technology resting upon three systems we have called Disciple-LTA [Learning, Teaching and Assistance], TIACRITIS [Training Intelligence Analysts Critical Reasoning Skills], and Disciple-CD [Connecting the Dots]. We have so far applied these systems to complex intelligence inferences based on masses of evidence o...

The founding disciplines of HTA are clearly scientific, and have been firmly based among the natural sciences. However, common definitions of HTA indicate that HTA is something more than the "pure application of science". This article investigates whether this "something" also makes HTA an art. The question of whether HTA is a science or an art is pursued in two specific and historically rich d...