scholarly journals Is Novelty Detection Important in Long-Term Odor Memory?

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 1146
Author(s):  
E. Leslie Cameron ◽  
E. P. Köster ◽  
Per Møller
Keyword(s):  
Verbal Memory ◽  
Novelty Detection ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
Rejection Rate ◽  
Forced Choice ◽  
Correct Rejection ◽  
Olfactory Memory ◽  
Odor Memory ◽  
Hit Rates ◽  
Rejection Rates

Memory for odors is believed to be longer-lasting than memory for visual stimuli, as is evidenced by flat forgetting curves. However, performance on memory tasks is typically weaker in olfaction than vision. Studies of odor memory that use forced-choice methods confound responses that are a result of a trace memory and responses that can be obtained through process of elimination. Moreover, odor memory is typically measured with common stimuli, which are more familiar and responses may be confounded by verbal memory, and measure memory in intentional learning conditions, which are ecologically questionable. Here we demonstrate the value of using tests of memory in which hit rate and correct rejection rate are evaluated separately (i.e., not using forced-choice methods) and uncommon stimuli are used. This study compared memory for common and uncommon odors and pictures that were learned either intentionally (Exp. 1) or incidentally (Exp. 2) and tested with either a forced-choice or a one-stimulus-at-a-time (“monadic”) recognition task after delays of 15 min, 48 h or 1 week. As expected, memory declined with delay in most conditions, but depended upon the particular measure of memory and was better for pictures than odors and for common than uncommon stimuli. For common odors, hit rates decreased with delay but correct rejection rates remained constant with delay. For common pictures, we found the opposite result, constant hit rates and decreased correct rejection rates. Our results support the ‘misfit theory of conscious olfactory perception’, which highlights the importance of the detection of novelty in olfactory memory and suggests that olfactory memory should be studied using more ecologically valid methods.

Effect of sleep on memory for binding different types of visual information

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J Shaw ◽  
Zhisen Urgolites ◽  
Padraic Monaghan
Keyword(s):  
Visual Information ◽  
Storage Capacity ◽  
Declarative Memory ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
Forced Choice ◽  
Long Term Memory ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Types Of Information

Visual long-term memory has a large and detailed storage capacity for individual scenes, objects, and actions. However, memory for combinations of actions and scenes is poorer, suggesting difficulty in binding this information together. Sleep can enhance declarative memory of information, but whether sleep can also boost memory for binding information and whether the effect is general across different types of information is not yet known. Experiments 1 to 3 tested effects of sleep on binding actions and scenes, and Experiments 4 and 5 tested binding of objects and scenes. Participants viewed composites and were tested 12-hours later after a delay consisting of sleep (9pm-9am) or wake (9am-9pm), on an alternative forced choice recognition task. For action-scene composites, memory was relatively poor with no significant effect of sleep. For object-scene composites sleep did improve memory. Sleep can promote binding in memory, depending on the type of information to be combined.

The Impact of Transparency and Decision Risk on Human–Automation Teaming Outcomes

2021 ◽  
pp. 001872082110334
Author(s):  
Shayne Loft ◽  
Adella Bhaskara ◽  
Brittany A. Lock ◽  
Michael Skinner ◽  
James Brooks ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Aid ◽  
Financial Incentive ◽  
Decision Aids ◽  
Rejection Rate ◽  
Decision Time ◽  
Correct Rejection ◽  
Incentive Scheme ◽  
Operator Behavior ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Financial Penalty

Objective Examine the effects of decision risk and automation transparency on the accuracy and timeliness of operator decisions, automation verification rates, and subjective workload. Background Decision aids typically benefit performance, but can provide incorrect advice due to contextual factors, creating the potential for automation disuse or misuse. Decision aids can reduce an operator’s manual problem evaluation, and it can also be strategic for operators to minimize verifying automated advice in order to manage workload. Method Participants assigned the optimal unmanned vehicle to complete missions. A decision aid provided advice but was not always reliable. Two levels of decision aid transparency were manipulated between participants. The risk associated with each decision was manipulated using a financial incentive scheme. Participants could use a calculator to verify automated advice; however, this resulted in a financial penalty. Results For high- compared with low-risk decisions, participants were more likely to reject incorrect automated advice and were more likely to verify automation and reported higher workload. Increased transparency did not lead to more accurate decisions and did not impact workload but decreased automation verification and eliminated the increased decision time associated with high decision risk. Conclusion Increased automation transparency was beneficial in that it decreased automation verification and decreased decision time. The increased workload and automation verification for high-risk missions is not necessarily problematic given the improved automation correct rejection rate. Application The findings have potential application to the design of interfaces to improve human–automation teaming, and for anticipating the impact of decision risk on operator behavior.

scholarly journals Flipping the Script: Measuring Both Performance Validity and Cognitive Ability with the Forced Choice Recognition Trial of the RCFT

2021 ◽  
pp. 003151252110197
Author(s):  
Kaitlyn Abeare ◽  
Kristoffer Romero ◽  
Laura Cutler ◽  
Christina D. Sirianni ◽  
Laszlo A. Erdodi
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Ability ◽  
Verbal Memory ◽  
Visual Memory ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Clinical Sample ◽  
Neuropsychological Test ◽  
Forced Choice ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Performance Validity ◽  
Two Samples

In this study we attempted to replicate the classification accuracy of the newly introduced Forced Choice Recognition trial (FCR) of the Rey Complex Figure Test (RCFT) in a clinical sample. We administered the RCFT FCR and the earlier Yes/No Recognition trial from the RCFT to 52 clinically referred patients as part of a comprehensive neuropsychological test battery and incentivized a separate control group of 83 university students to perform well on these measures. We then computed the classification accuracies of both measures against criterion performance validity tests (PVTs) and compared results between the two samples. At previously published validity cutoffs (≤16 & ≤17), the RCFT FCR remained specific (.84–1.00) to psychometrically defined non-credible responding. Simultaneously, the RCFT FCR was more sensitive to examinees’ natural variability in visual-perceptual and verbal memory skills than the Yes/No Recognition trial. Even after being reduced to a seven-point scale (18-24) by the validity cutoffs, both RCFT recognition scores continued to provide clinically useful information on visual memory. This is the first study to validate the RCFT FCR as a PVT in a clinical sample. Our data also support its use for measuring cognitive ability. Replication studies with more diverse samples and different criterion measures are still needed before large-scale clinical application of this scale.

Evaluating effects of automation reliability and reliability information on trust, dependence and dual-task performance

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-174
Author(s):  
Na Du ◽  
Qiaoning Zhang ◽  
X. Jessie Yang
Keyword(s):  
Task Performance ◽  
Predictive Value ◽  
Decision Aids ◽  
Rejection Rate ◽  
Detection Task ◽  
Correct Rejection ◽  
Predictive Values ◽  
Hit Rate ◽  
Dual Task Performance ◽  
Overall Reliability

The use of automated decision aids could reduce human exposure to dangers and enable human workers to perform more challenging tasks. However, automation is problematic when people fail to trust and depend on it appropriately. Existing studies have shown that system design that provides users with likelihood information including automation certainty, reliability, and confidence could facilitate trust- reliability calibration, the correspondence between a person’s trust in the automation and the automation’s capabilities (Lee & Moray, 1994), and improve human–automation task performance (Beller et al., 2013; Wang, Jamieson, & Hollands, 2009; McGuirl & Sarter, 2006). While revealing reliability information has been proposed as a design solution, the concrete effects of such information disclosure still vary (Wang et al., 2009; Fletcher et al., 2017; Walliser et al., 2016). Clear guidelines that would allow display designers to choose the most effective reliability information to facilitate human decision performance and trust calibration do not appear to exist. The present study, therefore, aimed to reconcile existing literature by investigating if and how different methods of calculating reliability information affect their effectiveness at different automation reliability. A human subject experiment was conducted with 60 participants. Each participant performed a compensatory tracking task and a threat detection task simultaneously with the help of an imperfect automated threat detector. The experiment adopted a 2×4 mixed design with two independent variables: automation reliability (68% vs. 90%) as a within- subject factor and reliability information as a between-subjects factor. Reliability information of the automated threat detector was calculated using different methods based on the signal detection theory and conditional probability formula of Bayes’ Theorem (H: hits; CR: correct rejections, FA: false alarms; M: misses): Overall reliability = P (H + CR | H + FA + M + CR). Positive predictive value = P (H | H + FA); negative predictive value = P (CR | CR + M). Hit rate = P (H | H + M), correct rejection rate = P (CR | CR + FA). There was also a control condition where participants were not informed of any reliability information but only told the alerts from the automated threat detector may or may not be correct. The dependent variables of interest were participants’ subjective trust in automation and objective measures of their display-switching behaviors. The results of this study showed that as the automated threat detector became more reliable, participants’ trust in and dependence on the threat detector increased significantly, and their detection performance improved. More importantly, there were significant differences in participants’ trust, dependence and dual-task performance when reliability information was calculated by different methods. Specifically, when overall reliability of the automated threat detector was 90%, revealing positive and negative predictive values of the automation significantly helped participants to calibrate their trust in and dependence on the detector, and led to the shortest reaction time for detection task. However, when overall reliability of the automated threat detector was 68%, positive and negative predictive values didn’t lead to significant difference in participants’ compliance on the detector. In addition, our result demonstrated that the disclosure of hit rate and correct rejection rate or overall reliability didn’t seem to aid human-automation team performance and trust-reliability calibration. An implication of the study is that users should be made aware of system reliability, especially of positive/negative predictive values, to engender appropriate trust in and dependence on the automation. This can be applied to the interface design of automated decision aids. Future studies should examine whether the positive and negative predictive values are still the most effective pieces of information for trust calibration when the criterion of the automated threat detector becomes liberal.

scholarly journals Effect of Worry Level on Recall Memory for Odors in ApoE-ε4 Carriers and Non-Carriers

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (05) ◽  
pp. 546-556 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily S. Bower ◽  
Jacquelyn Szajer ◽  
Claire Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Verbal Memory ◽  
Verbal Learning ◽  
Apoe Genotype ◽  
Cued Recall ◽  
Significant Interaction Effect ◽  
Apoe Ε4 ◽  
Preclinical Ad ◽  
Odor Memory ◽  
Odor Learning ◽  
Learning Test

AbstractObjective: Increased levels of worry, age, and presence of the apolipoprotein-E (ApoE)-ε4 allele are associated with the risk of developing cognitive declines and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Odor memory performance has been shown to vary as a function of age and ApoE genotype, and odor memory tests are sensitive to preclinical AD. Worry is known to influence verbal memory; however, its effects on odor memory are unknown. This study aimed to assess the relationships between worry, age, and ε4 status on odor memory. Method: Worry was evaluated for young (n = 53) and older (n = 45) adults using the Penn State Worry Questionnaire. Odor memory was assessed using the California Odor Learning Test, an olfactory analogue to the California Verbal Learning Test. Results: A significant main effect of worry on long-delay free recall was found, such that increasing worry was associated with better recall across age and ε4 status. A significant interaction effect between ε4 status and worry on both short-and long-delay cued recall was found, such that across age, higher worry was associated with increased cued recall scores among ε4-negative adults, and decreased scores among ε4-positive adults. Conclusions: Findings demonstrated that worry influences odor memory and exerts a particular effect on cued recall among ε4 carriers who are at a greater risk of developing AD. Worry is a modifiable predictor of cognitive decline and risk of dementia in aging. Future studies on the effects of treatments aimed at reducing worry (e.g., cognitive behavioral therapies for anxiety) on changes in cognitive functioning are warranted.

The effect of automated hemolysis index measurement on sample and test rejection rates

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 630-634
Author(s):  
Fazıla Atakan Erkal ◽  
Güzin Aykal ◽  
Hayriye Melek Yalçınkaya ◽  
Nihal Aksoy ◽  
Murat Özdemir
Keyword(s):  
Biochemical Analysis ◽  
Rejection Rate ◽  
Public Health Care ◽  
Sample Number ◽  
Laboratory Errors ◽  
Index Measurement ◽  
Preanalytical Phase ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Rejection Rates

Abstract Objective Vast majority of laboratory errors occurs in preanalytical phase and in vitro hemolysis is the most common among preanalytical errors. Automated serum index measurement is being used in routine biochemical analysis in Antalya Public Health Care Laboratory, since June 2014. Our aim in this study is to reveal the impact of serum index usage on rejected samples and rejected test rates due to hemolysis. Materials and methods Hemolysis, icterus and lipemia (HIL) spectral interference reagent and program have been used in our laboratory since June 2014. In the current study, the number of samples and tests that were rejected due to hemolysis in June–August 2014 were compared with those rejected in the same period of 2013. Results In 2014, the sample rejection rate was 2.53% and the rejected test rate was 0.48%. In 2013, the sample rejection rate was 0.56% and the rejected test rate was 0.55%. When compared two periods, statistically significant increase in rejected sample number due to hemolysis in 2014 is result of, visually undetectable hemolyzed samples previously can be identified by HIL method (p<0.05). Conclusion Usage of hemolysis index program in automated systems for detecting hemolysis was evaluated as a method which is standardized, semi-quantitative, with high reproducibility and allows test based rejection.

A Single Photon Emission Computerised Tomography Study of Regional Brain Function Underlying Verbal Memory in Patients with Alzheimer-Type Dementia

1993 ◽  
Vol 163 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Riddle ◽  
R. E. O'Carroll ◽  
N. Dougall ◽  
M. Van Beck ◽  
C. Murray ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Parietal Cortex ◽  
Verbal Memory ◽  
Single Photon ◽  
Photon Emission ◽  
Memory Task ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
Tracer Uptake ◽  
Anterior Cingulate ◽  
Alzheimer Type ◽  
Alzheimer Type Dementia

Ten patients with Alzheimer-type dementia and nine age-matched normal controls were examined with SPECT, using split-dose 99mTc-labelled exametazime. The baseline condition involved repetition of the word ‘yes' or ‘no’. The activation condition involved recognition (indicated by a ‘yes' or ‘no’) of words from a previously learned list presented along with distractor words. Patients who performed this task successfully were selected, and efforts were made to match the patients with controls according to their performance on the task, although this was not fully achieved. Uptake of 99mTc-exametazime was estimated at baseline and during the word-recognition task for predetermined regions of interest drawn from a standard neuroanatomical atlas. The baseline task appeared to normalise tracer uptake for frontal, temporal and parietal cortex in the patient group. However, during the recognition task, controls but not patients showed activation effects. These were most prominent in dorsolateral frontal cortex and adjacent anterior cingulate cortex. Among patients, successful performance was correlated with activation of dorsolateral frontal and parietal cortex on the left side. The results confirm the central role of frontal mechanisms in a recognition memory task. The study highlights some of the difficulties of using cognitive challenge tests in clinical groups.

scholarly journals Modulating the Focus of Attention for Spoken Words at Encoding Affects Frontoparietal Activation for Incidental Verbal Memory

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Christensen ◽  
Kyle R. Almryde ◽  
Lesley J. Fidler ◽  
Julie L. Lockwood ◽  
Sharon M. Antonucci ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Verbal Memory ◽  
Time Course ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Dual Process ◽  
Neural Activation ◽  
Hemispheric Differences ◽  
Relative Level ◽  
Perceptual Memory ◽  
Spoken Words

Attention is crucial for encoding information into memory, and current dual-process models seek to explain the roles of attention in both recollection memory and incidental-perceptual memory processes. The present study combined an incidental memory paradigm with event-related functional MRI to examine the effect of attention at encoding on the subsequent neural activation associated with unintended perceptual memory for spoken words. At encoding, we systematically varied attention levels as listeners heard a list of single English nouns. We then presented these words again in the context of a recognition task and assessed the effect of modulating attention at encoding on the BOLD responses to words that were either attended strongly, weakly, or not heard previously. MRI revealed activity in right-lateralized inferior parietal and prefrontal regions, and positive BOLD signals varied with the relative level of attention present at encoding. Temporal analysis of hemodynamic responses further showed that the time course of BOLD activity was modulated differentially by unintentionally encoded words compared to novel items. Our findings largely support current models of memory consolidation and retrieval, but they also provide fresh evidence for hemispheric differences and functional subdivisions in right frontoparietal attention networks that help shape auditory episodic recall.

Visual Memory in Unilateral Spatial Neglect: Immediate Recall versus Delayed Recognition

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (9) ◽  
pp. 2155-2170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elior Moreh ◽  
Tal Seidel Malkinson ◽  
Ehud Zohary ◽  
Nachum Soroker
Keyword(s):  
Visual Memory ◽  
Spatial Working Memory ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
Spatial Neglect ◽  
Correct Rejection ◽  
Visual Object ◽  
Unilateral Spatial Neglect ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Recognition Of Objects ◽  
Delayed Recognition

Patients with unilateral spatial neglect (USN) often show impaired performance in spatial working memory tasks, apart from the difficulty retrieving “left-sided” spatial data from long-term memory, shown in the “piazza effect” by Bisiach and colleagues. This study's aim was to compare the effect of the spatial position of a visual object on immediate and delayed memory performance in USN patients. Specifically, immediate verbal recall performance, tested using a simultaneous presentation of four visual objects in four quadrants, was compared with memory in a later-provided recognition task, in which objects were individually shown at the screen center. Unlike healthy controls, USN patients showed a left-side disadvantage and a vertical bias in the immediate free recall task (69% vs. 42% recall for right- and left-sided objects, respectively). In the recognition task, the patients correctly recognized half of “old” items, and their correct rejection rate was 95.5%. Importantly, when the analysis focused on previously recalled items (in the immediate task), no statistically significant difference was found in the delayed recognition of objects according to their original quadrant of presentation. Furthermore, USN patients were able to recollect the correct original location of the recognized objects in 60% of the cases, well beyond chance level. This suggests that the memory trace formed in these cases was not only semantic but also contained a visuospatial tag. Finally, successful recognition of objects missed in recall trials points to formation of memory traces for neglected contralesional objects, which may become accessible to retrieval processes in explicit memory.

178 MODELLING THE EFFECT OF ELEVATED TESTICULAR TEMPERATURE OF HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN BULLS IN A MODERATE CLIMATE ON REJECTION RATES OF EJACULATES IN SEMEN PROCESSING

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 201 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. C. J. Frijters ◽  
M. B. Rahman ◽  
J. W. J. Schouten-Noordman ◽  
L. Vandaele ◽  
A. van Soom
Keyword(s):  
Heat Stress ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Membrane Integrity ◽  
Rejection Rate ◽  
Intact Cells ◽  
Progressive Motility ◽  
Holstein Friesian ◽  
Heat Period ◽  
Moderate Climate ◽  
Rejection Rates

Heat stress can cause bulls to start producing sub- or even infertile semen. This is usually not noticed immediately during quality control while processing semen. Sometimes, a heat period is already over before an increase of rejection ejaculates is noticed in the laboratory. This delayed effect, but also because a heat period is often not discrete or clear-cut, makes it difficult to relate heat stress with semen quality. The recent study of Rahman et al. (Theriogenology, in press) is therefore of interest, given that heat stress was mimicked by elevation of testicular temperature (∼2°C, 48 h) of 2 Holstein Friesian bulls in a controlled experiment. Analyses of semen, collected 1 week before until 9 weeks after the experiment, revealed that specific stages in spermatogenesis, meiosis and spermiogenesis are susceptible to heat stress. During these stages, the percentages of morphologically normal, progressive motile and membrane-intact cells reduced by approximately 33, 25 and 20%, respectively. The objective of this study was to model how these reductions would affect rejection rates for these parameters in a moderate climate, such as the Netherlands. The standards of the 3 evaluated quality parameters, which are used by many AI stations, are per ejaculate more than 75% morphologically normal cells, more than 35% progressive motile and 50% membrane intact cells after thawing. Normal rejection rates were determined from original scores of at least 2 years from 2 AI stations (CRV, the Netherlands). That is, 11 453 morphology scores of fresh semen, 10 805 progressive motility and 3741 membrane integrity scores of thawed semen from 2065, 492 and 1488 bulls, respectively. To estimate rejection rates as if ejaculates were affected by heat stress, each morphology, progressive motility and membrane integrity score was reduced by 33, 25 and 20%, respectively. Normal vs estimated heat stress rejection rates, based on original and modeled scores, respectively, were 50 vs 100% for morphology, 2 vs 17% for progressive motility and 9 vs 61% for membrane integrity. Rahman showed that already a short period of heat stress can lead to reduced sperm quality for over a month. This study indicates that this effect can be very important for AI stations. In the case of progressive motility, which in the Netherlands is scored for each ejaculate, the estimated higher rejection rate of 17% could lead to a considerable increase of production costs. Membrane integrity is occasionally scored (when requested for export of semen), but morphology is always scored when bulls start to produce semen until ejaculates are produced in succession with more than 75% normal cells. High rejection rates for morphology are typical when bulls (∼11 months old) start, but this decreases quickly for most bulls to 0% within a few months as they mature. When these young bulls suffer heat stress before production, it is possible that the rejection rate will stay at 100% for a long time. When this is suspected, a prolonged test period should be considered to avoid wrongful culling of bulls.

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