Deciphering CAPTCHAS: What a turing test reveals about human cognition

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Hannagan, Thomas ^a   Ktori, Maria ^a   Chanceaux, Myriam ^a   Grainger, Jonathan ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPLETELY AUTOMATED PUBLIC TURING TEST TO TELL COMPUTERS AND HUMANS APART; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; READING; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REACTION TIME; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COGNITION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTERS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; READING; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84857702528     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032121     Document Type: Article

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