"Over centuries of evolution, humans’ pattern recognition skills determined natural selection. Hunters skilled at spotting prey and predator and telling poisonous plants from healthy ones offered them ...

Don’t worry; no one is going to judge you. This conversation can occur only in your head. You’re safe, I promise. Think about the following jobs and imagine the person doing the work: gospel singer, ...

One of the great myths in the technosphere is that musicians make good programmers because music is like math. I disagree. Music is not enough like math for any relevant or significant skill transfer.

CATALOG DESCRIPTION: Fundamental and advanced topics in statistical pattern recognition including Bayesian decision theory, Maximum-likelihood and Bayesian estimation, Nonparametric density estimation ...

The fast and accurate quantification of small numbers of elements, called subitizing, has been explained by assuming either a limited capacity for immediate apprehension of numerosity, a fast ...