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| Title |
Deciphering CAPTCHAs: What a Turing Test Reveals about Human Cognition
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, March 2012
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0032121 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Thomas Hannagan, Maria Ktori, Myriam Chanceaux, Jonathan Grainger |
| Abstract |
Turning Turing's logic on its head, we used widespread letter-based Turing Tests found on the internet (CAPTCHAs) to shed light on human cognition. We examined the basis of the human ability to solve CAPTCHAs, where machines fail. We asked whether this is due to our use of slow-acting inferential processes that would not be available to machines, or whether fast-acting automatic orthographic processing in humans has superior robustness to shape variations. A masked priming lexical decision experiment revealed efficient processing of CAPTCHA words in conditions that rule out the use of slow inferential processing. This shows that the human superiority in solving CAPTCHAs builds on a high degree of invariance to location and continuous transforms, which is achieved during the very early stages of visual word recognition in skilled readers. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 7 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 1 | 14% |
| Romania | 1 | 14% |
| France | 1 | 14% |
| United States | 1 | 14% |
| Sweden | 1 | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 14% |
| Unknown | 1 | 14% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 7 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 41 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 1 | 2% |
| Spain | 1 | 2% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 38 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 6 | 15% |
| Researcher | 5 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 4 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 4 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 2 | 5% |
| Other | 10 | 24% |
| Unknown | 10 | 24% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 12 | 29% |
| Computer Science | 4 | 10% |
| Neuroscience | 3 | 7% |
| Engineering | 2 | 5% |
| Social Sciences | 2 | 5% |
| Other | 7 | 17% |
| Unknown | 11 | 27% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 April 2012.
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#6,605,634
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#88,086
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#41,298
of 159,454 outputs
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#1,033
of 3,550 outputs
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