Recently, scientists have found great similarities between human brains and those of primates. We propose a brain-like computational model after significantly studying the problem solving systems of the behavioral con...
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Recently, scientists have found great similarities between human brains and those of primates. We propose a brain-like computational model after significantly studying the problem solving systems of the behavioral control in the primate brain. Instead of working on the specific roles of tens of billions of neurons and how they might be connected with each other, we mainly focus on the accumulative and overall performance of the brain subsystems, each of which is modeled by a computational system or a certain algorithm. We propose a four-level computational system, where the four levels of the model are independent with each other, at the same time, one level is also connected to the others. The connectivity among levels has been studied as well. The four parallel subsystems are different in many ways, such as the sensory inputs, computational power, model complexity, and so on. However, all systems share a same working memory which stores past experience in all states and helps to make better decision at a near future. The model has been simulated in a challenging foraging problem. The experimental results show that the model works well on various environments with spares or dense obstacles.
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of tactile feedback on multi-finger coordination, quantified by a synergy index using the uncontrolled manifold analysis. Twenty healthy, young volunteers were asked...
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(纸本)9780945289395
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of tactile feedback on multi-finger coordination, quantified by a synergy index using the uncontrolled manifold analysis. Twenty healthy, young volunteers were asked to press with all the four fingers on four, one dimensional sensors at 20% of their maximum voluntary force. A visual feedback of total force output was shown on a computer monitor. Tactile feedback was removed by administering ring block anesthesia. Results from this study suggest that the multi-finger synergies, the task errors as well as the flexibility of the motor system to produce the forces decrease significantly with the administration of anesthesia.
Separating speech from acoustic interference is a very challenging task. In particular, no system successfully addresses the separation of unvoiced speech. Fricatives and affricates are two main categories of consonan...
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(纸本)0780388747
Separating speech from acoustic interference is a very challenging task. In particular, no system successfully addresses the separation of unvoiced speech. Fricatives and affricates are two main categories of consonants that contain a significant amount of unvoiced signal. We propose a novel system that separates fricatives and affricates from non-speech interference. The system first decomposes the input mixture into segments, each of which contains signal mainly from one source. Then it detects segments dominated by unvoiced portions of fricatives and affricates with a feature-based Bayesian classifier, and groups these segments with voiced speech separated by a previous system. The proposed system is evaluated with various types of interference and produces promising results.
Neurons in the brain form complicated networks through synaptic connections. Traditionally, functional connectivity between neurons has been analyzed using simple metrics such as correlation, which do not provide dire...
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(纸本)9781424441211
Neurons in the brain form complicated networks through synaptic connections. Traditionally, functional connectivity between neurons has been analyzed using simple metrics such as correlation, which do not provide direction of influence. Recently, an information theoretic measure known as directed information has been proposed as a way to capture directionality in the relationship, thereby moving towards a model of effective connectivity. This measure is grounded upon the concept of Granger causality and can be estimated by modeling neural spike trains as point process generalized linear models. However, the added benefit of using directed information to infer connectivity over conventional methods such as correlation is still unclear. Here, we propose a novel estimation procedure for the directed information. Using physiologically realistic simulations, we demonstrate that directed information can outperform correlation in determining connections between neural spike trains while also providing directionality of the relationship, which cannot be assessed using correlation.
Speech segregation, or the cocktail party problem, has proven to be extremely challenging. While efforts in computational auditory scene analysis have led to considerable progress in voiced speech segregation, little ...
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Speech segregation, or the cocktail party problem, has proven to be extremely challenging. While efforts in computational auditory scene analysis have led to considerable progress in voiced speech segregation, little attention has been given to unvoiced speech which lacks harmonic structure and has weaker energy, hence more susceptible to interference. We describe a novel approach to address this problem. The segregation process occurs in two stages: segmentation and grouping. In segmentation, our model decomposes the input mixture into contiguous time-frequency segments by analyzing sound onsets and offsets. Grouping of unvoiced segments is based on Bayesian classification of acoustic-phonetic features. The proposed model yields very promising results
Editing and manipulating graph-based models within immersive environments is largely unexplored and certain design activities could benefit from using those technologies. For example, in the case study of architectura...
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Universal Turing Machines [29, 10, 18] are well known in computer science but they are about manual programming for general purposes. Although human children perform conscious learning (learning while being conscious)...
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Mass communication over social media can drive rapid changes in our sense of collective identity. Hashtags in particular have acted as powerful social coordinators[1], playing a key role in organizing social movements...
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The volatile behavior of Bitcoin's price, especially during its halving periods, poses considerable obstacles for forecasting and decision-making in cryptocurrency trading. This paper presents a novel method that ...
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The volatile behavior of Bitcoin's price, especially during its halving periods, poses considerable obstacles for forecasting and decision-making in cryptocurrency trading. This paper presents a novel method that combines application fuzzy logic with Bollinger Bands to improve trading decision-making in times of high market volatility. This study conducted an experiment utilizing three fuzzy logic controllers and Bollinger Bands (BB) to determine the strength of buy, hold, and sell signals. This dataset includes the initial and final prices that are used to calculate the BB. The raw and computed values serve as the precise input parameters for the Fuzzy Inference System (FIS). The membership functions were categorized into four levels: very low, low, high, and very high, based on the input default settings utilized by traders. Rulesets were created using fuzzy logic to produce signals that indicate the level of strength of a trading advice. This study evaluate the effectiveness of this hybrid method in comparison to the traditional utilization of the Bollinger Band only indicator and Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) indicator, which is widely favored by traders to identify possible market fluctuations. This methodology involves creating a trading simulation that is based on past Bitcoin halving events. The objective is to assess the efficacy of these strategies in managing heightened volatility. The application of fuzzy logic with the Bollinger Bands model yielded a success rate of 92.47% while analyzing 93 daily data points from the previous Bitcoin halving event on May 11, 2020.
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