mind_hacks and cognitivedaily report on a study that suggests that thinking quickly could boost your mood ( Read more... )

To finish reviewing the 10th ICCNS conference, here is an image related to the plenary talk "Toward cognitive prostheses" by Ken Ford of the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (Florida):

A traditional aircraft cockpit setup vs. OZ cockpit display:


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What might eventually turn to be the main event of 10th ICCNS a few weeks ago: Max Versace (a graduate student of Grossberg) finally did something to unify Grossberg's ART ("adaptive resonance theory") and spikes and synchronous oscillations.( Read more... )

More 10th ICCNS findings: Razvan Florian (Romania) presented a poster, "Reinforcement learning for spiking neural networks with modulated spike-timing-dependent plasticity". Basically, this modifies the reinforcement learning approach by Jonathan Baxter and Peter Bartlett for the situation with spikes. (One nice thing is that training for XOR ( Read more... )

I'll be writing tidbits I learned at the Tenth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems.

One of them is curvelets, a strange version of "sharp-looking, angular" wavelets. Here is an example of a curvelet at the research page of Harry Hess.( Read more... )

Tenth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems.

May 17 - 20, 2006, Boston University

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Неспроста мне так нравилось облизывать электрические батарейки..

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/tongue_sight

Eugene Izhikevich is trying to create Scholarpedia, the free peer reviewed encyclopedia, using the same MediaWiki software which powers Wikipedia. Its first project is an attempt to create Encyclopedia of Computational NeuroscienceWith his energy, and given the commitments of a number of well-known authors to be responsible for the articles, the ( Read more... )

"The paper suggests that language affects perception in the right half of the visual field, but much less, if at all, in the left half."

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"Sigmund Freud and the Crick-Koch hypothesis. A footnote to the history of consciousness studies"

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