This research is an investigation into the cognitive aspects of mate attraction in human males. Two experiments demonstrate that visual exposure to women (in person or within photographs) can prime large changes in the attitudes, mood states, and personality trait descriptions of male participants. These changes, furthermore, are such that participants show greater conformity to female mate pre...

Evidence that higher cognitive processes are coupled in a graded and time-continuous way to sensory-motor processes comes, in part, from mouse-tracking studies. In these, curved mouse trajectories toward one of two fixed response locations reveal the evolution of certainty about a cognitive task that participants solve. We present a paradigm in which selection of the response location is itself...

Abstiact: When offered single species of seaweeds in excess amounts, the sea urchin Arbuciapunctulata (Lamarck) Philippi consumed significantly more Gracilana folijr,a (Forsskal) Borgrsen and Codium z3thmocladium Vickers than Sargassum filipendula C. Agardh, Padina vickersiae Hoyt, or Dictyota dichotomu (Hudson) Lamouroux. When all five species were offered to urchins simultaneously, patterns o...

We present a model in which visual search behavior is assumed to result from a combination of controlled, serial search and automatic attraction of attention to target stimuli. The model provides a quantitative framework for how these different processes are combined, and despite a large number of constraints, it is highly successful in accounting for human search behavior at the level of full ...

This work investigates the potential of direction-correlations to improve branch prediction. There are two types of direction-correlation: affectors and affectees. This work considers for the first time their implications at a basic level. These correlations are determined based on dataflow graph information and are used to select the subset of global branch history bits used for prediction. If...