parallel distributed processing neuroimaging in the Stroop color word interference task in five healthy subjects was studied. The total reaction time was set at 650 ms with a time window of 200 ms in steps of 50 ms. S...
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parallel distributed processing neuroimaging in the Stroop color word interference task in five healthy subjects was studied. The total reaction time was set at 650 ms with a time window of 200 ms in steps of 50 ms. Spatially filtered magnetoencephalography analysis, as used in synthetic aperture magnetometry, was used. Neural activation began in the left posterior parietal-occipital area (150-250 ms post-stimulus), followed by the right prefrontal polar area (250-350 ms), the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (250-400 ms), and the mid- to lower- primary motor area (350-400 ms). Successive and temporally overlapping activation of various cortical regions were successfully estimated within a short 200 ms time interval, contrary to previous positron emission tomography and fMRI studies. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
This article describes a methodology for using neural networks in an inverse heat conduction problem. Three neural network (NN) models are used to determine the initial temperature profile on a slab with adiabatic bou...
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This article describes a methodology for using neural networks in an inverse heat conduction problem. Three neural network (NN) models are used to determine the initial temperature profile on a slab with adiabatic boundary condition, given a transient temperature distribution at a given time. This is an ill-posed one-dimensional parabolic inverse problem, where the initial condition has to be estimated. Three neural network models addressed the problem: a feedforward network with backpropagation, radial basis functions (RBF), and cascade correlation. The input for the NN is the temperature profile obtained from a set of probes equally spaced in the one-dimensional domain. The NNs were trained considering a 5% of noise in the experimental data. The training was performed considering 500 similar test-functions and 500 different test-functions. Good reconstructions have been obtained with the proposed methodology.
parallel application programmers and software engineers have a variety of paradigms at their disposal. Some of the tools include traditional environments such as parallel virtual machine (PVM) and message passing inte...
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parallel application programmers and software engineers have a variety of paradigms at their disposal. Some of the tools include traditional environments such as parallel virtual machine (PVM) and message passing interface (MPI). Tools that are more modern involve the World Wide Web, including Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), and JavaSpaces. Java's object oriented approach proves to be a desirable platform for developing paralleldistributed applications. This paper describes the benefits and expected efficiencies of using the object-oriented approach of Java's Jini and the RMI and Jini based object oriented tuple environment provided by JavaSpaces. [1].
The effects of migration in parallel distributed processing of a parameter-free genetic algorithm (PfGA) that does not require establishing genetic parameters such as the initial population size, crossing-over rate, a...
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The effects of migration in parallel distributed processing of a parameter-free genetic algorithm (PfGA) that does not require establishing genetic parameters such as the initial population size, crossing-over rate, and mutation rate are discussed. This PfGA is a compact and robust algorithm characterized by the fact that it extracts one local population (subpopulation) from the entire search space and searches the prospective space while varying the local population size adaptively. The algorithm has been implemented on parallel computers using a hierarchical parallel-distributed architecture of the PfGA that includes migration methods. As a result of performance evaluation using a general functional optimization (minimum value search) problem including the international benchmark problem, it has been verified that the search success rate is maintained or improved, and that increasing the number of local populations by using the proposed migration selection methods can effectively reduce the number of evaluations required for success. (C) 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
When subjects switch between a pair of stimulus-response tasks, reaction time is slower on trial N if a different task was performed on trial N - 1. We present a parallel distributed processing (PDP) model that simula...
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When subjects switch between a pair of stimulus-response tasks, reaction time is slower on trial N if a different task was performed on trial N - 1. We present a parallel distributed processing (PDP) model that simulates this effect when subjects switch between word reading and color naming in response to Stroop stimuli. Reaction time on "switch trials" can be slowed by an extended response selection process which results from (a) persisting, inappropriate states of activation and inhibition of task-controlling representations and (b) associative learning, which allows stimuli to evoke tasks sets with which they have recently been associated (as proposed by Allport & Wylie, 2000). The model provides a good fit to a large body of empirical data, including findings which have been seen as problematic for this explanation of switch costs, and shows similar behavior when the parameters are set to random values, supporting Allport and Wylie's proposal. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science (USA).
In this work we present the parallelisation of the global strategy with first least-connected node (GS-FLCN), which is a novel structural technique for the classification of unmeasured variables in process plant instr...
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In this work we present the parallelisation of the global strategy with first least-connected node (GS-FLCN), which is a novel structural technique for the classification of unmeasured variables in process plant instrumentation design. The algorithm aims at partitioning the process' occurrence matrix to a specific block lower-triangular form. A parallel master-workers philosophy is employed to search for all the paths of a given length existing in the associated graph. The code was conceived for distributed environments and the implementation was carried out using the parallel virtual machine (PVM) library. The performance of the parallel algorithm was tested for industrial case studies and the results were compared with those yielded by the sequential version. The time savings achieved thanks to the parallelisation. were significant. Besides, in the parallel version, more paths can be explored per unit time. In practice, this implies greater robustness. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
A parallel distributed processing (PDP) model of phonological processing is developed. including component,, to support repetition. auditory processing, comprehension, and language production. From the performance of ...
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A parallel distributed processing (PDP) model of phonological processing is developed. including component,, to support repetition. auditory processing, comprehension, and language production. From the performance of the PDP reading model of Plaut, McClelland, Seidenberg, and Patterson (1996), it is inferred that the acoustic-articulatory motor pattern associator that supports repetition provides the basis for phonological sequence knowledge. From the observation that many patients make phonemic paraphasic error, in language production, as in repetition, it is argued that there must be a direct link between distributed concept representations (lexical semantic knowledge) and this network representation of sequence knowledge. In this way, both lexical semantic and phonotactic constraints are brought to bear on language production, The literature on phonological function in normal subjects (slip-of-the-tongue corpora) and in patients With aphasia is critically reviewed from this perspective. The relationship between acoustic and articulatory motor representation,,;in the process of phonetic perception is considered. Repetition and reproduction conduction aphasia are reviewed in detail and extended consideration is given to the representation or auditory verbal short-term memory in the model. Finally, the PDP model is reconciled with information processing models of phonological processing, including that of Lichtheim, and with current knowledge of the anatomic localization of phonological processing Although no simulations of the model were run, a number of simulation studies are proposed. (C) Elsevier Science.
Previous clinical studies have demonstrated that executive functioning has a significant association with the frontal lobes. In this study we examined executive functioning with parallel distributed processing (PDP) m...
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Previous clinical studies have demonstrated that executive functioning has a significant association with the frontal lobes. In this study we examined executive functioning with parallel distributed processing (PDP) methodology by attempting to replicate Tower of Hanoi (TOH) neuropsychological test performance differences in normal healthy controls vs. left frontal lobe patients. Initial theoretical experiments were carried out to solve computer subprocessing constraints of the TOH partially by determining the programming prerequisites for a specific number of rings, efficient sequencing, and a general learning rule. These preliminary studies were then modified using a back-propagation neurocomputational approach. Computer program output showed a resemblance to normal controls' TOH moves. Degrading of the left frontal lobe patients' network resulted in characteristic impairments of executive functioning, i.e., perseveration and rule-braking.
A computational modeling approach was used to test one possible explanation for the limited capacity of the subitizing phenomenon. Most existing models of this phenomenon associate the subitizing span;with an assumed ...
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A computational modeling approach was used to test one possible explanation for the limited capacity of the subitizing phenomenon. Most existing models of this phenomenon associate the subitizing span;with an assumed structural limitation of the human information processing system. In contrast, we show how this limit might emerge as the combinatorics of the space of enumeration problems interacts with the human cognitive architecture in the context of an enumeration task. Subitizing-like behavior was generated in two different models of enumeration, one based on the ACT-R cognitive architecture and the other based on the principles of parallel distributed processing (PDP). Our results provide good qualitative fits to results obtained in a variety of empirical studies.
For more than a century the paradigm inspiring cognitive neuroscience has been modular and localist. Contemporary research in functional brain imaging generally relies on methods favorable to localizing particular fun...
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For more than a century the paradigm inspiring cognitive neuroscience has been modular and localist. Contemporary research in functional brain imaging generally relies on methods favorable to localizing particular functions in one or more specific brain regions. Meanwhile, connectionist cognitive scientists have celebrated the computational powers of distributedprocessing, and pioneered methods for interpreting distributed representations. This paper takes a connectionist approach to functional neuroimaging. A tabulation of 35 PET (positron emission tomography) experiments strongly indicates distributed function for at least the 'medium sized' anatomical units, the cortical Brodmann areas. More important, when these PET experiments were interpreted as distributed representations, multidimensional scaling revealed a 'brain activation space' with a salient structure organized primarily by the sensory modality of the stimulus, and secondarily by the type of motor response. These results suggest that current analytical techniques in functional neuroimaging should be augmented by distributedprocessing analyses, and that these analyses may lead to many discoveries about the structure of 'inner space'.
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