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Surprise
About: Surprise is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4371 publications have been published within this topic receiving 99386 citations.
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TL;DR: Although in agreement with critics on the need and importance of policing AI research for the general good of the society, they are deeply baffled by the ways some of them mispresented the motive and objective of the research.
Abstract: In November 2016 we submitted to arXiv our paper "Automated Inference on Criminality Using Face Images". It generated a great deal of discussions in the Internet and some media outlets. Our work is only intended for pure academic discussions; how it has become a media consumption is a total surprise to us. Although in agreement with our critics on the need and importance of policing AI research for the general good of the society, we are deeply baffled by the ways some of them mispresented our work, in particular the motive and objective of our research.
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17 Jan 2013
TL;DR: The authors argue that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been, and that stories affect the way we think about time and how they condition thinking about the future.
Abstract: This is a critical and philosophical investigation into the unforeseeable and the surprising in narrative and life. This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. This relation between the present and the future perfect offers a grammatical formula quite different from our default notions of narrative as recollection or recapitulation. It promises new understandings of the reading process within the strange logic of a future that is already complete. It also points beyond that to some of the key temporal concepts of our epoch: prediction and unpredictability, uncertainty, the event, the untimely and the messianic. The argument is worked out in new readings of Sarah Waters' Fingersmith, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and Julian Barnes' The Sense of an Ending. It is an original discussion of the relation of time and narrative. It is an important intervention in narratology. It is a striking general argument about the workings of the mind. It provides an overview of the question of surprise in philosophy and literature.
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TL;DR: Event-related brain potentials to colored slides contained a late positive component that was significantly enhanced when adults recognized the person, place, or painting in the photograph.
Abstract: Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to colored slides contained a late positive component that was significantly enhanced when adults recognized the person, place, or painting in the photograph. Additionally, two late components change in amplitude, corresponding to the amount of surprise reported. Because subjects received no instructions to differentiate among the slides, these changes in brain potentials reflect natural classifications made according to their perceptions and evaluations of the pictorial material. This may be a useful paradigm with which to assess perception, memory, and orienting capacities in populations such as infants who cannot follow verbal instructions.
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TL;DR: This article found that explanation-seeking curiosity (ESC) is triggered by first-person cues such as novelty or surprise, thirdperson cues (such as a knowledgeable adults' surprise or question), and future-oriented cues (e.g., expectations about information gain or future value) and is satisfied by an adequate explanation, typically obtained through causal intervention or question asking.
Abstract: Children are known for asking ‘why?’ — a query motivated by their desire for explanations. Research suggests that explanation-seeking curiosity (ESC) is triggered by first-person cues (such as novelty or surprise), third-person cues (such as a knowledgeable adults’ surprise or question), and future-oriented cues (such as expectations about information gain or future value). Once triggered, ESC is satisfied by an adequate explanation, typically obtained through causal intervention or question asking, both of which change in efficiency over development. ESC is an important driver of children’s learning because it combines the power of active learning and intrinsic motivation with the value of explanatory content, which can reveal the unobservable and causal structure of the world to support generalizable knowledge.
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22 Oct 2005
TL;DR: Researchers study the distribution of the seven emotions in spoken Chinese in the two dimensional space of valence and arousal in order to describe and distinguish emotions.
Abstract: This paper presents a conception of emotion space modeling using psychological research for reference Based on this conception, this paper studies the distribution of the seven emotions in spoken Chinese, including joy, anger, surprise, fear, disgust, sadness and neutral, in the two dimensional space of valence and arousal, and analyses the relationship between the dimensional ratings and the prosodic characteristics in terms of F0 maximum, minimum, range and mean The findings show that the conception of emotion modeling is helpful to describe and distinguish emotions
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