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- Price: This is on the list not because it is the most important, but because it is always a factor in some way, shape or form. Don't ignore it, because it is always about the money. Either we're worth it, we add value, or we cost you in time, energy and money.
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- Place: while not as important as it used to be, where your partner is located is still a consideration. We can do a significant amount of work via the Internet, but if you are the touchy feel-y type, or just feel face-to-face is critical to your success, don't be talked into remote support. On the other hand, if the other criteria look promising, having an up front understanding that you want 2-3 face to face meetings/year is a reasonable request, and you will find out right away if it's a deal breaker.
- Business Understanding: A good partner can listen, understand, build out and ease your pain. A great partner can do all that and have the foresight to anticipate your needs. Some of that is domain expertise, some is industry expertise, and some of it is gut instinct. Never underestimate the value of a partner who not only understands your business, but also can generalize from similar industries or applications to enhance your business.
- Application expertise: You wouldn't hire an auto repair person set up your Internet router, but you might hire a Mercedes mechanic to work on your Audi. A good partner will have expertise you need, but what is most important is a partner who has the ability to see beyond the "hood" of the application to the broader functionality of the application. In many organizations, an application architect is the person who make sure the technician is doing the right work in the right way.
- Culture: The WHO of the companies you do business with is a critical component to success. And part of WHO is couched in the culture of the partner. Are you a company that is full of young, upbeat, snowboarding, radicals? You may not want a partner whose values are around hierarchy and roles. Are you a corporate giant? You might want a little bit radical, but more middle of the road partner. It all depends on what you are looking for. Long hair may just mean your partner's too busy to get a haircut, and conversely, a shaved head might mean your partner's too busy to get a haircut;-)
- Process: You may love the people in a company, but if they don't have a repeatable project process, you may get different results for every project. A solid partner process means no matter who you get assigned to your project, the steps and experiences will be the same. This is key for on-going relationships.
- Experience: We have a bias about experience. There's nothing like experiencing great success and great failure to make a person stronger, smarter, more resilient. and if they are any of those, they aren't the right people for you. There's something great about experience–we can share it, we can learn from it, we can teach from it, and we can be better from it–both good and bad. It adds a dimension to a team that comes from life alone.
- Shared Values: A partner is a long term commitment. Make sure your values are aligned so that you can spend your time making things better, faster, smarter; not second guessing whether an invoice is right, or all the tasks are completed. That's important, too, but there's more to be made from adding value, and reducing costs.
And that's our top 10 list. These are in no particular order, but it would be interesting to hear from you on what YOU think the priorities are.
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I can still remember with perfect clarity the day in eighth grade when a boy walked up to me at my locker and said, "Hey cutie." I was sweaty, having just come from gym class, and I was only at my locker to buy some time before I had to go to math class where the teacher hated me and the numbers didn't make any sense. But there was a boy standing next to me and he called me cute and I had no idea what to say. But I didn't have to say anything, because the girl he was with just laughed, a cut off cackle into the oversized purse she was fishing through. I turned back to my locker, not saying a word because I was out of my depth and trying to ignore the world.
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Always striving for a more authentic experience in my videogames, I came across this:
This'll enable the ability to switch to "Russian" voiceovers (under the audio settings) for gameplay, allowing the Russian team to actually speak Russian. The only downside is that the US team will also start speaking with a slavic tongue as well, so you're going to have to switch the settings every time you change teams. (these are the actual sound files for the Russian version of the game)
I tried it out on a game last night and have to stay I felt more immersed than before. Dice always had good non-English voiceovers in their games (BF2 and BC2 come to mind) and these are no different.


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k, so i designed my recipe to specifically use Simcoe, Citra, and Cascade. Turns out, there is a shortage of both simcoe and citra at my LHBS, so i had to substitute and i picked chinook and galena. but originally i wanted simcoe and citra b/c of their very specific taste and citrus qualities which can't really be duplicated. so, does anyone have any idea how it's gonna taste with 90 and 30 minute chinook additions, 60 and 15 min Galena additions, and a 5 min cascade addition. beersmith estimates the IBUs at 67, but i'm more interested in the taste. i don't want it to be completely bitter, i want a well balanced citrus. 90 min boil. 12.5 lbs u.s. 2 row, 1 lb of crystal 60.
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That's going to be bitter enough to make a pig squeal.
Just kidding. It will be bitter though. Most of the flavor is from the 15 minute addition.
It won't be too bitter, but it will be bitter. IPAs are bitter. Are you bitter? Would it be better if it were bitter? Be right back, I need to go to the ****ter.
I would have done the bittering with Galena and the flavor/aroma with Chinook. For reference, Arrogant Bastard is a single hop Chinook beer (+ lots of Special B).
Galena (US) 10-14% Primarily used for strong, clean, balanced bittering. Fruity, slightly citrusy and spicy. Chinook (US) 11-13% Spicy, piney, grapefruity. Lingering slightly rough resiny bitterness The hops are substitutes for each other.
I agree w/ Calder: Galena as bittering, for sure. You could either flavor w the Chinook, or flip that w the Cascades, IMHO either schedule would work. FWIW, I use Galena a lot, it's fallen out of favor a bit, but I find it to be an excellent bittering hop that has a slightly mysterious undertone to it.


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Eagles of Death Metal Deliver in Austin
"Austin never disappoints me," said an elated Jesse "Boots Electric" Hughes from the stage Tuesday night at Stubb's, one of the Texas capitol's premiere venues, as his band the Eagles of Death Metal opened the night for headliner the Hives. And Hughes, in turn, never disappoints an Austin crowd, or any crowd for that matter, since he's known as a rocker who delivers every time. "I want to see all the ladies dance. In fact, who wants to come up here? You?" he said pointing out someone in the audience.
Austin Fans Heed BellRays' Rock'n'Roll Advice
Last night (June 2) at Austin, TX's Mohawk venue, as the BellRays' soulful frontwoman Lisa Kekaula stepped foot on the tiny stage sporting tall, red suede boots and a black dress, the crowd's eyes were intently fixated, waiting for the fiery songstress to lead the Riverside, CA-based rockers into song. And when guitarist Bob Vennum grinded out the head-banging first power-chords of "Fire on the Moon," the tiny venue, now packed wall to wall, deserted the Monday blues for the feeling of a raucous Saturday night. Largely performing cuts off their new album, Hard Sweet and Sticky, including the shout-along rocker "Pinball City," the band breezed through their 16-song set, as punked-out, 12-bar blues riffs collided with Kekaula's overpowering swagger and jangling tambourine.


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GW2 is really several games in oneDungeon gameOpen world gameWvW gamesPvP gameCharacter story gameyou could do just WvW and get lost in it... i still don't understand 100% how WvW worksback in WoW world I had every BG memorized like the back of my hand... pretty much have nothing memorized in GW2Before I work on my caster... elementalist or mesmer... I want to:Have banked at least 3000 gems (from in game gold to gems)Have banked like 200 goldCompleted warr/guardian storiesRun fractals deeperI haven't done the math, but after a certain inflation threshold it would be better at this point to save gold long term, in the form of gems, instead of just in goldexample, at launch:600 gems = 2 gold?now600 gems = 10g?if i left that 2g in my bank, it would be still 2gBUT, if I saved them in gem form, when I cashed out the gems for gold, it would be worth about 7-8g nowTHIS all under the assumption that inflation will continue... so maybe the best bet is to diversify, and to save half your gold as gold, and save half your gold as gems
Does Anet take a cut of the conversion?
So buy gems low sell them high pretty much?Also thinking about rerolling a warrior. My ranger is fun for sure but warriors seem to have all the fun. The class I think I see the most in game is guardians. Tons of mesmers as well in WvWvW.
So I have a weak amount of 11g at the moment. How much gold do you guys usually carry?Gems gain interest over time?
Yeah so. I just now figured out to do that daily stuff haha. I find finding different enemy types can be hard. So I do that part between characters in different zones. Do you guys have a set path etc?I'm waiting anxiously for April. I want to explore some dungeons!
Critters work for me. Ghastly, next time when you start a fresh daily, look at the count # (should be 0), kill a critter, then look at the number again.
I finally now just started to understand crafting lol. Doing it to level my alt warrior.


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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Second quarter earnings season remains in high gear. Four key companies reported after the close on Wednesday and I tracked the up and down volatility in after hours trading. There are many key earnings releases next week, and today I profile six companies that report on Monday.
On Wednesday the market focused on comments from Fed Chief Bernanke before the House Financial Services Committee and today his comments continue before the Senate Banking Committee. Bernanke re-iterated his theme that QE3 and QE4 plus a 0% funds rate is still required to stimulate the economy.
In my opinion Federal Reserve policy has not worked and will not work. The latest Beige Book released Wednesday afternoon reported that the U.S. economy continues to grow at a modest to moderate pace.
I found a couple of questionable comments in the Beige Book. If residential construction shows strong demand, why did housing starts decline by 9.9% in June? If the economy has a solid base, why are many businesses reluctant to hire full time employees?
These four key companies reported after the close on Wednesday: American Express (AXP) ($76.80) set a multi-year high at $78.63 on July 15 and was trading lower going into its quarterly earnings report. The credit card company beat EPS estimates by 5 cents earning $1.22 per share, but missed revenue expectations and the stock continued lower in after hours trading to at least $75.75. The stock has a hold rating with a quarterly value level at $68.18 and monthly and semiannual pivots at $76.35 and $78.27. eBay (EBAY) ($57.38) challenged its multi-year high at $58.04 set on April 11 before its earnings release. The company matched EPS estimates earning 54 cents per share and beat on the revenue line, but the performance of PayPal was below expectations and the stock traded down to $53.80 in after hours trading. This buy rated stock has a semiannual value level at $51.69 with a semiannual pivot at $56.21 and a monthly risky level at $58.11. IBM (IBM) ($194.55) traded as low as $188.41 on June 28, but with a buy rating this proved to be a buying opportunity. After the close on Wednesday IBM reported an EPS beat of 13 cents, earning $3.91 per share. The stock popped above $200 in after-hours trading despite missing on the revenue line. My weekly value level is $188.88 with a monthly risky level at $203.60.Check Out Our Best Services for Investors
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Health Net Names Rose Megian President And Chief Executive Officer Of Health Net Of Arizona
Health Net, Inc. (NYSE:HNT) today announced that Rose Megian has been named the new president and chief executive officer of Health Net of Arizona, Inc., a wholly-owned health plan subsidiary in Arizona. Megian replaces Bret Morris, who led Health Net of Arizona since May 2010. Megian started at Health Net in 2003 and held several senior leadership positions during that time, including vice president of Provider/Benefit Configuration and Capitation and vice president of Membership Accounting and Eligibility and Claims Operations.
"Rose has established an excellent track record in operations management and consistently demonstrates the ability to lead large teams and improve outcomes," said Steve Sell, president of Health Net's Western Region Health Plan.
Megian also holds the title of Regional Health Care Services Officer and has responsibility over the health care services delivered in Arizona and California's Inland Empire and San Diego regions. Health Net has established five health care delivery regions in the geographies in which it operates.
"Our health care services model is a regionally focused member- and population-centric model built upon strategic partnerships with health care providers," said Scott Law, Health Net's Health Care Services Officer. "Rose has proven herself to be a collaborative leader who is able to establish strong relationships."
Megian has 18 years of industry experience. Prior to joining Health Net, Megian worked for six years at PacifiCare of Arizona where she held several leadership roles, including manager of Membership Accounting and director of Finance Operations. "It's an unprecedented time in our nation's history," said Law. "The Affordable Care Act is shaping the future of health care. Health Net's local approach will help ensure we provide our customers with affordable, quality access to care in 2014 and beyond." About Health Net Health Net, Inc. is a publicly traded managed care organization that delivers managed health care services through health plans and government-sponsored managed care plans. Its mission is to help people be healthy, secure and comfortable. Health Net provides and administers health benefits to approximately 5.4 million individuals across the country through group, individual, Medicare (including the Medicare prescription drug benefit commonly referred to as "Part D"), Medicaid, U.S. Department of Defense, including TRICARE, and Veterans Affairs programs. Through its subsidiaries, Health Net also offers behavioral health, substance abuse and employee assistance programs, managed health care products related to prescription drugs, managed health care product coordination for multi-region employers, and administrative services for medical groups and self-funded benefits programs. For more information on Health Net, Inc., please visit Health Net's website at www.healthnet.com. 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Anu Mokal wasn't breaking the law when she was out walking with her friend last year, yet to the police, her very existence was criminal. As a sex worker in the Indian state of Maharashtra, she lives under various laws aimed at criminalizing the sex trade, supposedly to protect women from exploitation. But it was the law that became her assailant that day when a police officer viciously attacked her, hurling insults and beating her severely.
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By: David Swanson Sunday June 23, 2013 9:30 am |
The United States alone is perfectly capable, if it chooses, of enacting a global marshall plan, or — better — a global rescue plan. Every year the United States spends, through various governmental departments, roughly $1.2 trillion on war and war preparations. Every year the United States foregoes well over $1 trillion in taxes that billionaires and centimillionaires and corporations should be paying.
Aid Groups Fight Anti-Prostitution 'Oath' on Free Speech Grounds |
By: Michelle Chen Saturday January 19, 2013 6:00 pm |
One of the few bright spots in the global response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic has been PEPFAR, the United States government's program to fund treatment and prevention for vulnerable populations across the Global South. But several years ago, lawmakers singled out one group of people as less worthy of that care. In fact, aid groups must publicly denounce them—or risk losing U.S. funding.
That's the basic idea behind the "anti-prostitution loyalty oath" embedded in the global AIDS initiative legislation. As a condition of receiving federal funds, organizations must adhere to avaguely worded anti-prostitution pledge, essentially swearing to the government that they do not support or promote prostitution.
Clinton Ignores Hold, Approves Humanitarian Aid for West Bank and Gaza |
By: David Dayen Thursday April 12, 2012 9:52 am |
The chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, tried to put a hold on foreign aid to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. It was a manifestation of the same old AIPAC-driven politics, where the US acts punitively toward one side in the Israel-Palestine conflict.
State Department Decides to Deliver All Egyptian Military Aid |
By: David Dayen Friday March 23, 2012 9:45 am |
Despite widespread reports of abuse and troubling signs of suppressing dissent, the Egyptian military will get their US funding restored, at least in part. The State Department plans to make the announcement today.
House-Senate Reach Agreement on Omnibus Spending, Defense Authorization Bills |
By: David Dayen Tuesday December 13, 2011 9:00 am |
Two major year-end pieces of legislation were readied yesterday, and in this case, House and Senate negotiators reached agreement on the measures, expecting to pass them by the end of the week. First, appropriators agreed to a $1 trillion omnibus spending bill covering the rest of the fiscal year (to September 30 of next year) on domestic spending. They also agreed on the defense spending bill, which still allows indefinite detention of suspects.
Shadow Play Over Pakistani Involvement in Bin Laden Raid Continues |
By: David Dayen Wednesday May 4, 2011 7:06 am |
Leon Panetta is absolutely trying to set up Pakistan publicly. Yesterday he said in an interview that the US never told Pakistan about the forthcoming mission into Abbottabad to kill bin Laden because they would have tipped him off. Implicit in that statement is the idea that at least some Pakistani officials knew where bin Laden was hiding. Otherwise, how could they tip him off? Later that day, Panetta said to Congress – and basically allowed it to be leaked, through evidently not putting too fine a point on the secrecy of that part of the briefing – that Pakistan is either grossly incompetent or culpable.
Lack of Leadership, Elite Failure Crippling Rescue Efforts in Japan |
By: David Dayen Thursday March 17, 2011 6:45 am |
The focus on events at Fukushima Daiichi belie the apparently woeful response to the crisis created by the companion natural disasters that have killed at least 10,000 and left up to a half a million homeless.
President Gives Muted Statement on Murders in Bahrain, Yemen, Libya |
By: David Dayen Friday February 18, 2011 3:15 pm |
In case you're coming to this late, we know of at least three dead in Yemen from anti-government protests, with police firing tear gas, rubber bullets, and according to some protesters, live rounds. Libya's security forces are shooting protesters indiscriminately. And in the most shocking massacre, Bahraini forces from an overhead helicopter fired into a crowd of thousands. There are varying degrees of media access in these countries, so we probably don't have the full picture. But we know this much: this is a day of blood. And, in response, we get this boilerplate from the White House.
Live Blog: White House Press Briefing on Egypt |
By: David Dayen Friday January 28, 2011 12:16 pm |
The official report is that there will be a US press briefing shortly on the Egyptian situation, but privately Administration officials are waiting for Hosni Mubarak to speak.
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Anacor Pharmaceuticals Reports Second Quarter 2013 Financial Results
Anacor Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ANAC) announced today its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2013.
"We had a busy second quarter as we finalized preparations for our NDA for tavaborole, which was submitted on July 26 th. This is an exciting time at Anacor as we begin to reap the benefits of the investments that we've made in drug development over the last decade and plan the commercialization of our later stage products," said David Perry, Chief Executive Officer of Anacor Pharmaceuticals.
Second Quarter 2013 Highlights and Recent Developments
- Tavaborole – our lead topical antifungal product candidate for the treatment of onychomycosis, a fungal infection of the nail and nail bed that affects approximately 35 million people in the United States.
- On July 26, 2013, we submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for tavaborole, the first drug in our clinical pipeline to reach this milestone.
- AN2728 – our lead topical anti-inflammatory product candidate for the treatment of atopic dermatitis and psoriasis. Atopic dermatitis is a chronic rash characterized by inflammation and itching and affects an estimated 40 million people in the seven major pharmaceutical markets, including approximately 10% to 20% of infants and young children.
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Willow Springs International Motorsports Park is located in Willow Springs near Rosamond and Lancaster, California, and is about an hour north of Los Angeles. It is a historic race track, in existence more than fifty years. Construction of the track began in 1952, with the inaugural first race held on November 23, 1953.[1] The main track is a challenging 2.5-mile (4.0 km) long road course that is unchanged from its original 1953 configuration. The interesting elevation changes and high average speeds make it a favorite of many road racing drivers.
Willow Springs International Raceway Park also features other racing facilities such as The Streets of Willow (1.8 mile road course), The Horsethief Mile (road course), Willow Springs Speedway (1/4 mile paved oval), Willow Springs Kart Track (a .625-mile, 9-turn paved sprint track), The Playpen (a 1/4-mile paved training track), and the Walt James Stadium (Clay Oval and Paved Oval).
Efforts by fans have resulted in the State of California declaring Willow Springs International Raceway as a California Point of Historical Interest in 1996.[2]
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The 9 turns of Willow: The main track at Willow Springs Raceway, informally called the "Big Track", consists of 9 turns. The layout is built for speed, but combines speed with turns and elevation changes to offer a unique challenge. It is possible for a capable car or motorcycle to exceed 160 miles per hour (260 km/h) on the front straightway.
Streets of Willow Springs: Constructed in 1987. A 1.8-mile (2.9 km) road course with multiple configurations, it has an attached Skid Pad measuring 400 ft (120 m). by 350 ft (110 m). and a 60 ft (18 m). by 40 ft (12 m). garage. Located just north of Willow Springs International Raceway on 70th St. West., it is accessible through the Main Track entrance, or the 70th St. West gate. Racing fuel and tire service are available daily.
Horse Thief Mile: 1-mile (1.6 km) canyon-like road course
Willow Springs Speedway: ¼-mile paved oval
Walt James Stadium: 3/8-mile dirt oval
Willow was used by George Lucas in 1:42:08 A Man and His Car (1966)
The track is in the 1985 Christopher Cross music video "Every Turn of the World"[3]
On 3 February 2013 the track featured on the British BBC program Top Gear, while Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May were being chased by planes.
The overall track record is held by Michael Andretti in a 1987 CART Indycar (Champ Car). Andretti completed a lap of the 2.5 mile main track in 1 minute 6.050 seconds, for an average speed of 136 miles per hour (219 km/h).[4]
Coordinates: 34°52′30″N 118°15′52″W / 34.875°N 118.26444°W


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Hot answers tagged cognitive-modeling
Scientists studying the matter generally believe multitasking, and women's superiority at it, to be a myth. Men come out slightly better multitaskers than women but there's not really any meaningful difference. The way it's defined is critical though; it's being able to do two things that typically require focal attention at the exact same time. For ...
Probabilistic approaches of this sort are usually referred to more specifically as the bayesian approach and Chater and Tanenbaum are definitely bayesians (I have not read much by Yuille and can't comment). Bayesianism is more than just increasing in popularity and being encouraged; it is considered one of the big-4 approaches to cognitive-modeling, with the ...
The major neural models of consciousness at the moment roughly fall into two camps: cognitive and phenomenological. They are defined by controversy surrounding what types of experience qualify as concious.
Cognitive models
On the one hand there are strong cognitive models of consciousness, such as the one proposed by Stanislas Dehaene, where consciousness ...
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Video Games (C. S. Green, D. Bavelier, 2004) is a good if somewhat dated overview of cognitive research on video game players. They note that ordinary video game users show a number of differentiated and improved mental skills:
Video game play has been shown to dramatically
enhance visuo-motor skills. In particular, video ...
In my experience, the term "semantic knowledge" (or semantic memory or conceptual knowledge) is generally used to refer to knowledge of objects, word meanings, facts and people, without connection to any particular time or place. The neural basis of this kind of knowledge is more or less agreed to depend on a distributed network of cortical brain regions ...
Artem gave a very good answer, but I want to add one more weaknesses of probabilistic/Bayesian models: they are not mechanistic. This is related to Artem's point about neural grounding, but is a little different. The issue is that probabilistic models don't really provide insight into the underlying mechanism that produces the observed behavior -- if you ask ...
Wikipedia on time perception
The Wikipedia article on "time perception". In particular, the section on long-term time perception cites a couple of articles.
* The articles makes the common point that a unit of time as a proportion of one's life decreases with age. A few empirical studies are also cited.
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Ukraintseva (2001) wrote an ...
Here are a few options. I have not tried them yet personally.
Scott Brown has a copy of Donkin et al (2009) on his web page with some code in R, Excel, and WinBUGS for fitting the LBA model:
Diffusion model
The Diffussion model is ...
Given your background and interest in modeling, I would highly recommend The Cambridge Handbook of Computational Psychology. The book provides an overview for several of the prominent modeling paradigms in cogsci, including dynamical systems, as well as many concrete examples--albeit most using other computational paradigms.
Dynamical systems, to my ...
There is "hard evidence" regarding how timing and the subjective experience of intervals changes as a function of age. McAuley et al. (2006) ran a battery of different timing and time perception tasks on participants of ages ranging from 4 to 95 years. One finding that relates to your question was that children in the range of 4 to 7 years preferred and, ...
Video game training has long been shown to influence perceptual-motor skills, but also visual selective attention,(1) although it might well involve a mix of pre attentive and attentive processing. I have no difficulties imagining there are some key studies on fastest adaptation in children as compared to older people, where effects are probably expressed ...
Playing action video games improves performance in subitizing and multiple object tracking, both of which are abilities involving attending to multiple objects at once. Note that it's a causal relationship; people who don't play action video games show improvements in those two abilities after playing for a while.
More generally, playing action video games ...
This is not my research field, but I'm also very interested in this topic. As far as I know there has not been much research done but two articles of interest are:
Washburn, D. A. (2003). The games psychologists play (and the data
they provide). Behavior research methods, instruments & computers,
35(2), 185-193. Psychonomic Society Publications.
This ...
One of Koch's collaborators, Francis Crick (yes, that Francis Crick, much later in his career), put forth an interesting theory with Koch that while perhaps is a bit far fetched, it's worth mentioning for sake of a slightly different perspective.
Crick and Koch posited the claustrum (see diagram below) as one of the seats of consciousness in the brain. ...
The whole of the research on this topic has some very, very serious methodological flaws, which mean there is currently surprisingly little evidence that video games or expert gamers are somehow 'special'. In particular, there are serious concerns regarding demand characteristics.
Don't just take my word for it, take a look at the extremely comprehensive ...
I and other colleagues have published a paper on the cognitive impacts of MMORPGs:
Link to full text here
The work also reviews some of the literature regarding the psychology of computer games and a new framework for the understanding of cognition in the digital age.
I hope this helps.
The present paper attempts to empirically study the ...
I have a similar background to you, and have found a lot of interesting things in evolutionary game theory (you can follow links from my profile for more). But on the specific content of your question: I have come across to uses of dynamic systems on the opposite ends of cognition. Beer's work on modeling minimal cognition, and Busemeyer & Townsend's ...
The Computational Theory of Mind is not that the mind does some form of computation in the wide sense of computation. Rather, look at the examples for the CToM given in the Wikipedia article; people like Fodor, Pinker, Marr. Their view is very much the opposite to the Connectionist position of West Coast scientists like Rumelhart, Elman and McClelland. Both ...
This should perhaps be a comment, but I don't have the reputation. The other two answers mention that a major drawback to the Bayesian approach is its lack of biological plausibility. However, see for instance:
Bayesian inference with probabilistic population codes
Ma, W.J. and Beck, J.M. and Latham, P.E. and Pouget, A.
Nature Neuroscience, ...
Dehaene & Changeux (1991) made a neural-network model:
The coding units are clusters of neurons organized in layers, or assemblies. A sensonmotor loop enables the network to sort the input cards according to several criteria (color, form, etc.). A higher-level assembly of rule-coding clusters codes for the currently tested rule, which shifts when ...
I would doubt that the effect you described is an example for the positivity effect, which is a form of attributional bias, rather than connected to basic perceptual phenomena.
Instead I think that the experimental results you described can be explained by a priming effect. Priming describes the phenomenon that the exposure to one stimulus influences the ...
Just like brain training research - see this great recent study by Owen et al. 2010 - there is little good evidence to show any causal long term and generalisable effects of playing video games.
However, to answer the original question: I found that video game players had higher speed and reasoning ability in a small sample paper based on my PhD research ...
There are several such models in the field of auditory perception. For example Patterson 1996 [1] suggests a model that starts with a simulation of the cochlea and the neural activity and reaches up to perception; Winkler 2006 [2] reviews the process of auditory perception, again from the cochlea up to perception.
Somewhat old and does not mention a ...
Schroedingers Cat nailed a couple of important points and I need to expand it further.
I believe the important roadblock in the creation of an absolutely intelligent machine is the fact that human brain is still not decrypted. There isn't a holistic cognitive model that describes how the brain functions, reacts or take decisions. Even in case such a model ...
One common way of framing numerical cognition is in terms of a "mental number line". This mental number line is thought to have a logarithmic scale, so perceived differences are inversely proportional to their magnitude. For example, the difference between 6 and 7 is perceived as bigger than the difference between 76 and 77. This is just a variant of the ...
Humans actually exhibit both slow and fast learning and they have somewhat different properties. One distinction is between "declarative" memory (for example, facts like "tigers have stripes" or "Paris is the capital of France") and "procedural" learning (such as perceptuo-motor skills like riding a bike or playing a musical instrument). Declarative memory ...
In general, there are two types of 'complexity' that are studied. Usually, when people talk about 'complexity', especially on the internet, they mean Santa Fe Institute style complexity. This is a vague and poorly defined concept that has struggled for a number of years without making significant progress. It uses pretty words, but has yet to deliver on any ...
Instead of having a single integrator with two bounds for two choices (symmetric random walk model), you can have many competing integrators each with a bound (race model). For example, see Fig 2. of Gold and Shadlen 2007 and references therein.
As for the continuous choices case, it is important to understand a limit of discrete choices can be very ...
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