Symbolic control of visual attention: The role of working memory and attentional control settings.

This study examined how 1 symbol is selected to control the allocation of attention when several symbols appear in the visual field. In Experiments 1-3, the critical target feature was color, and it was found that uninformative central arrows that matched the color of the target were selected and produced unintentional shifts of attention (i.e., involuntary, initiated slowly, producing long-lasting facilitatory effects). Experiment 4 tested whether such selection is the result of an attentional filter or of a competition bias due to a match of incoming information against integrated object representations stored in working memory. Here, the critical feature was shape and color was irrelevant, but matching color arrows were still selected. Thus, features of objects in working memory will bias the selection of symbols in the visual field, and such selected symbols are capable of producing unintentional shifts of attention. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Simultaneous translation of lectures and speeches

With increasing globalization, communication across language and cultural boundaries is becoming an essential requirement of doing business, delivering education, and providing public services. Due to the considerable cost of human translation services, only a small fraction of text documents and an even smaller percentage of spoken encounters, such as international meetings and conferences, are translated, with most resorting to the use of a common language (e.g. English) or not taking place at all. Technology may provide a potentially revolutionary way out if real-time, domain-independent, simultaneous speech translation can be realized. In this paper, we present a simultaneous speech translation system based on statistical recognition and translation technology. We discuss the technology, various system improvements and propose mechanisms for user-friendly delivery of the result. Over extensive component and end-to-end system evaluations and comparisons with human translation performance, we conclude that machines can already deliver comprehensible simultaneous translation output. Moreover, while machine performance is affected by recognition errors (and thus can be improved), human performance is limited by the cognitive challenge of performing the task in real time.     

Interstate forensic psychology consultations: A call for reform and proposal of a model rule.

Forensic psychology has made important gains in professional recognition and stature in the courts, resulting in increasing demands for mobility of expertise. Current regulations regarding the interjurisdictional temporary forensic practice of psychology, however, are characterized by variability of regulations, ambiguity and inaccessibility, and continuing total barriers. A uniform, well-reasoned policy is needed. A conceptual basis for such a policy is provided by a discussion of licensing rationales and the application of these to forensic practice. Uniformity, public and professional protection, and practicability are identified as fundamental regulatory criteria. A Model Rule Regarding the Temporary Forensic Practice of Psychology is proposed for adoption by state licensing boards on a nationwide basis. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

“新时期统计文化建设研讨会”综述

统计文化是一种行业性的亚文化,是科学文化与人文文化的结合。在新的历史时期,统计文化有着丰富的内涵和表现形式,其中深层次的精神文化居于核心地位。统计文化对统计人员的影响往往体现在统计职业道德之中。统计文化建设是一项复杂的系统工程,必须坚持以人为本。     

Mutual recognition of the results of measurements and tests and formation of a world-wide metrology system

The main prerequisites are considered in a historical aspect and steps ate taken in creating a world-wide metrology system with the aim of providing conditions for the mutual recognition of measurement results. __________ Translated from Izmeritel’naya Tekhnika, No. 11. pp. 59–62, November, 2007.     

The time course of spoken word learning and recognition: Studies with artificial lexicons.

The time course of spoken word recognition depends largely on the frequencies of a word and its competitors, or neighbors (similar-sounding words). However, variability in natural lexicons makes systematic analysis of frequency and neighbor similarity difficult. Artificial lexicons were used to achieve precise control over word frequency and phonological similarity. Eye tracking provided time course measures of lexical activation and competition (during spoken instructions to perform visually guided tasks) both during and after word learning, as a function of word frequency, neighbor type, and neighbor frequency. Apparent shifts from holistic to incremental competitor effects were observed in adults and neural network simulations, suggesting such shifts reflect general properties of learning rather than changes in the nature of lexical representations. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

基于组织协同进化分类算法的遥感图像目标识别

针对遥感图像目标识别问题,提出了一种基于组织协同进化分类算法的识别方法。它没有复杂的运算,训练和识别速度都很快。对实测遥感图像的实验表明,本文方法性能稳定,优于文献[3]和[4]中基于支撑矢量机的方法,识别率均达到了95％以上,且训练时间非常短,不到1秒钟。     

Scopolamine impairs human recognition memory: Data and modeling.

Eight subjects studied a set of complex visual images after administration of 0.4 mg scopolamine. Another 8 subjects performed the same task without drug administration. On a subsequent item recognition test, subjects rated, on a 5-point scale, their confidence that the studied pictures and an equal number of unstudied lures were actually presented. Results showed that scopolamine affected responses to studied items, but not unstudied lures, demonstrating an unambiguous effect of scopolamine on recognition memory. To describe the scopolamine-injected subjects' data, the authors constructed a new model of 2-process recognition that includes the A. P. Yonelinas (1994) model as a limiting case. The model analysis suggests that scopolamine affected both familiarity and recollection. In particular, scopolamine did not affect the frequency with which recollection took place, but rather, affected the amount of recollected information. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

A New Method for Target Recognition

1　Introduction　SinceZadeh[1] establishedfuzzysettheoryin 196 5 ,fuzzysetmakesgreatachievementintheoryandapplica tion[2～ 5] .Becausethereexistintrinsicfuzzinessinpat ternrecognition ,usingfuzzysettopatternrecognitionacquiregreatsuccess.Toexplainthedifferentandrela tionbetweenfuzzysetandprobabilitytheory ,Zadeh[6 ]introducedpossibilitytheoryin 1978.Possibilitytheoryhadbeenusedinfuzzyreason ,fuzzycontrolandexpertsystem[7～ 9] .Applingpossibilitytheoryto patternrecognitionisattemptedbyHalland…