Can you recognize recognition?

If You Can Draw It, You Can Recognize It: Mirroring For Sketch Recognition

Humans use sketches drawn on paper, on a computer, or via hand gestures in the air as part of their communications. To recognize shapes in sketches, most existing work focuses on offline (post-drawing) recognition methods, trained on large sets of examples which serve as a plan library for the recognition method. These methods do not allow on-line recognition, and require a very large library (...

How Looking at Someone You Don’t Know Can Help You to Recognize Someone You Do

Adaptation to faces has been shown to influence judgments of many different features of subsequently viewed faces. For example, after viewing a face that has had its internal features compressed, subjects report that the features of a normal face seem unnaturally expanded (Webster & MacLin, 1999). Recent work has extended these findings to identity, showing that the judgments of the identity of...

You may worry, but can you recognize threats when you see them?; Neuroticism, threat identifications, and negative affect.

The present studies sought to investigate the hedonic consequences of threat-identification skills at low and high levels of neuroticism. Such skills were assessed in terms of both speed (Study 1) and accuracy (Study 2) of identifying threatening objects in cognitive tasks. As predicted, threat-identification skills interacted with trait neuroticism in predicting subjective experiences. Specifi...

Can children recognize pride?

Recent research has shown that pride, like the "basic" emotions of anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise, has a distinct, nonverbal expression that can be recognized by adults (J. L. Tracy & R. W. Robins, 2004b). In 2 experiments, the authors examined whether young children can identify the pride expression and distinguish it from expressions of happiness and surprise. Results ...

Can you recognize a patient at risk for a hypercoagulable state?