All people experience aging, and the related physical and health changes, including
changes in memory and brain function. These changes may become debilitating leading to …

The concept of similarity, or a sense of 'sameness' among things, is pivotal to theories in the
cognitive sciences and beyond. Similarity, however, is a difficult thing to measure …

Starting around 6 to 9 months of age, children begin acquiring their first words, linking
spoken words to their visual counterparts. How much of this knowledge is learnable from …

Understanding normal brain aging and develo** methods to maintain or improve
cognition in older adults are major goals of fundamental and translational neuroscience …

Why is there so much more research on vision than on any other sensory modality? There is
a seemingly easy answer to this question: It is because vision is our most important and …

In recent years, the use of a large number of object concepts and naturalistic object images
has been growing strongly in cognitive neuroscience research. Classical databases of …

An ongoing debate in the Visualization community concerns the role that visualization types
play in data understanding. In human cognition, understanding and memorability are …

In this paper we move beyond memorability and investigate how visualizations are
recognized and recalled. For this study we labeled a dataset of 393 visualizations and …

What makes certain images more memorable than others? While much of memory research
has focused on participant effects, recent studies using a stimulus-centric perspective have …

Many experimental research designs require images of novel objects. Here we introduce the
Novel Object and Unusual Name (NOUN) Database. This database contains 64 primary …