In daily life, humans demonstrate an amazing ability to remember images they see on magazines, commercials, TV, web pages, etc. but automatic prediction of intrinsic memorability of images using computer vision and machine learning techniques has only been investigated very recently. Our goal in this article is to explore the role of visual attention and image semantics in understanding image m...

Four experiments contrasted the cue-familiarity hypothesis of feeling-of-knowing judgments (FKJs) and tip-of-the-tongue feelings (TOTs) to the target-retrievability hypothesis. Familiarity of the cues was contrasted to memorability of the targets in a paired-associate design (e.g., A-B A-B, A-B A-B', A-B A-D, A-B C-D), in which the number of repetitions of the cue A terms was dissociated from t...

A face’s memorability refers to the unique combination of visual features facilitating its recognition. Despite considerable variation in face recognition ability amongst general population, individuals show substantial concordance regarding faces’ memorability. This agreement persists, though reduced, when viewpoints across which identities are seen at encoding and differ. Consequently, must e...

Some images, upon first glance, are more easily remembered than others. Such memorability is highly consistent across people, and thus can be used as an image property for exploring the interaction of perception and memory. We conducted two fMRI experiments to investigate perception of memorable versus forgettable faces and scenes (controlled for possible confounds, including color, spatial fre...

In recent years, graphical passwords have been proposed as an alternative to traditional alphanumeric passwords, which demonstrate weakness in necessitating exact recall and thereby promoting the selection of insecure passwords. Because there is much evidence to suggest that humans have a greater capacity to recall images as compared to text, graphical passwords hold promise as a form of authen...

Three experiments were conducted to investigate the relative memorability of solved versus unsolved problems in long-term memory. In each experiment, subjects worked on a set of potentially solvable word problems, with the time spent on each problem held constant. Problem memorability was then measured with a free-recall task. In Experiment 1, in which a majority of problems were solved, unsolv...

Video memorability prediction aims to quantify the credibility of being remembered according video content, which provides significant value in advertising design, social media recommendation, and other applications. However, main attributes that affect have not been determined so making design model more challenging. Therefore, this study, we analyze experimentally verify how select most impac...

A number of recent studies have shown that minimally counterintuitive concepts are better recalled than intuitive and maximally counterintuitive concepts. This paper presents a computational model that relates memorability of a concept to the amount of new information that the concept provides to a rational agent seeking to build a more accurate model of its environment. Given two different typ...