Word recognition behavior can be fine-tuned by experience and practice, according to a new study by researchers in Canada. Their work shows, for the first time, that it is possible to develop visual ...

Baboons don’t read, don’t speak and perhaps can’t understand language at all. But scientists have found that they can learn to recognize writing on a computer screen, identifying correctly most of the ...

If you have ever taken an IQ-type test, then you are familiar with “odd-one-out” puzzles. Most such puzzles present figures, images, or symbols in a sequence, with the goal being to spot the one item ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In two experiments, subjects were asked to learn high and low frequency words, following which they were given a recognition test which ...

Voice recognition technology might be becoming standard in new gadgets, but its accuracy will be what determines whether it really becomes a can’t-live-without feature. That’s one of the messages ...

Moore's law has driven silicon chip circuitry to the point where we are surrounded by devices equipped with microprocessors. The devices are frequently wonderful; communicating with them - not so much ...

Tests of cognitive and perceptual abilities were given to 140 college students. These subjects then participated in two word-recognition tasks in which their recognition thresholds to both English and ...