Traditionally, ritual has been studied from broad sociocultural perspectives, with little
consideration of the psychological processes at play. Recently, however, psychologists have …

Traditional approaches to human information processing tend to deal with perception and
action planning in isolation, so that an adequate account of the perception-action interface is …

AI is undergoing a paradigm shift with the rise of models (eg, BERT, DALL-E, GPT-3) that are
trained on broad data at scale and are adaptable to a wide range of downstream tasks. We …

Action recognition has typically treated actions and activities as monolithic events that occur
in videos. However, there is evidence from Cognitive Science and Neuroscience that people …

This paper introduces a video dataset of spatio-temporally localized Atomic Visual Actions
(AVA). The AVA dataset densely annotates 80 atomic visual actions in 437 15-minute video …

During realistic, continuous perception, humans automatically segment experiences into
discrete events. Using a novel model of cortical event dynamics, we investigate how cortical …

Both knowledge and discourse are fundamental notions in the humanities and social
sciences. It is therefore surprising that so little detailed research has been done on the …

Drawings and sequential images are an integral part of human expression dating back at
least as far as cave paintings, and in contemporary society appear most prominently in …

This book presents a new basis for the empirical analysis of film. Starting from an
established body of work in film theory, the authors show how a close incorporation of the …

We present a system to automatically generate natural language descriptions from images.
This system consists of two parts. The first part, content planning, smooths the output of …