The ability to recognize people by their voice is an important social behavior. Individuals differ in how they pronounce words, and listeners may take advantage of language-specific knowledge of speech phonology to facilitate recognizing voices. Impaired phonological processing is characteristic of dyslexia and thought to be a basis for difficulty in learning to read. We tested voice-recognitio...

We investigated the relations among mental rotations and spatial perception abilities, handedness, and sexual orientation in both men and women. The present study included a relatively large sample and attempted to control statistically for important covariates such as general intelligence. Significant sex differences were obtained for mental rotations and spatial perception, but not for handed...

Our vision is a pro-active robot that assists elderly or disabled people in everyday activities. Such a robot needs knowledge in the form of prediction models about a person’s abilities, preferences and expectations in order to decide on the best way to assist. We are interested in learning such models from observation. We report on a first approach to learn ability models for manipulation task...

In 1998 and the years following, the Google search engine took the world wide web by storm, providing high-quality search results that were clearly superior to other commercial search engines at the time (Brin and Page, 1998). The algorithm that provided these high-quality search results relied on one simple assumption: “A hyperlink from page A to page B is a recommendation of page B by the aut...