Indirect tests of remembering have revealed two different patterns of priming following generation and reading tasks: (1) read words produce more priming than generated words, which produce little or no priming relative to new words, and (2) both read and generated words show reliable and equivalent priming. In a series of six experiments using both mixed and blocked presentation of encoding ta...

How does a listener find and follow the speech of a talker? Many classic and contemporary accounts of speech perception start with a coherent sensory sample of speech already established, as if the perceptual world consisted solely of speech, and as if no more than a single talker ever spoke at once. Long-established and recent characterizations alike have cast the fundamental problem of speech...

Computing the correct bounding contours of objects in complex natural scenes is generally thought to be one of the harder computer vision problems, and the state of the art is still quite far from human performance, when human subjects are given an arbitrary amount of time to delineate the shape of these contours [1]. How do we explain this gap? One possibility is that, when given enough time, ...