Figure 1: Although all image patches in (a) are just noise, when we show thousands of them to online workers and ask them to find ones that look like cars, a car emerges in the average, shown in (c). This noise-driven method is a well known approach in human psychophysics that extracts the decision function that the human visual system uses for recognition. We are adopting this method to build ...

Although the human visual system can recognize many concepts under challenging conditions, it still has some biases. In this paper, we investigate whether we can extract these biases and transfer them into a machine recognition system. We introduce a novel method that, inspired by well-known tools in human psychophysics, estimates the biases that the human visual system might use for recognitio...

Fluorescence intermittency or blinking is observed in nearly all nanoscale fluorophores. It is characterized by universal power-law distributions in on- and off-times as well as 1/f behaviour in corresponding emission power spectral densities. Blinking, previously seen in confined zero- and one-dimensional systems has recently been documented in two-dimensional reduced graphene oxide. Here we s...

Key words: imagination, integrative knowledge, the parts and a whole, verified and validated realities, indeterminate implication in technology, science and humanities How do we know the degree of imagination involved in knowing a reality? This is essentially an epistemological question. This essay discusses first the role of imagination in Polanyi's epistemology since it is used here as the ba...

“Imagination is what makes our sensory experience meaningful, enabling us to interpret and make sense of it, whether from a conventional perspective or from a fresh, original, individual one. It is what makes perception more than the mere physical stimulation of sense organs. It also produces mental imagery, visual and otherwise, which is what makes it possible for us to think outside the confi...

Agnosia is defined as a neurologic disorder through which the patient loses the ability to recognize persons, objects, shapes or sounds depending on the sense involved whereas the sense might not be defective and there might not be any memory loss (1). Chronologically, agnosia was first described by Carl Wernicke (1874) and Kuss-maul (1877) who tried to respectively explain receptive aphasia an...