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The game motoneurons play

We apply a Game Theoretical approach to analyze the competition between motoneurons (MNs) innervating a common muscle. A typical skeletal muscle consists of many thousands of fibers. At birth each muscle-fiber is innervated by several MNs, but during the first couple of weeks after birth, a competitive mechanism called “synapse elimination” abolishes all inputs but one, which we term “the winne...

Chimpanzees play the ultimatum game.

Is the sense of fairness uniquely human? Human reactions to reward division are often studied by means of the ultimatum game, in which both partners need to agree on a distribution for both to receive rewards. Humans typically offer generous portions of the reward to their partner, a tendency our close primate relatives have thus far failed to show in experiments. Here we tested chimpanzees (Pa...

Don't play the blame game.

Decentralized Game Play

In our project we address the problem of how to implement a stateful multi-player game while minimizing trust in third-parties. By “stateful” we mean that there is some meaningful state that persists between separate interactions, as opposed to each interaction being selfcontained, as in chess, tic-tac-toe, etc. A typical example of a stateful game is poker, since each hand affects the money ba...

Game Play Evaluation Metrics

This paper discusses various metrics for game play evaluation based on user categories and market expectation. The use of various metrics improves the game testing ahead of the regular testing methods and also pinpoints the paradigm shift in the user taste. The use of metrics improves game play in conjunction with the user's psychological pattern that is usually age independent. We have al...