Verbal Descriptions of Cue Direction Affect Object Desirability

Cue control and head direction cells.

Previous research has shown that head direction (HD) cells in both the anterior dorsal thalamus (ADN) and the postsubiculum (PoS) in rats discharge in relation to familiar, visual landmarks in the environment. This study assessed whether PoS and ADN HD cells would be similarly responsive to nonvisual or unfamiliar environmental cues. After visual input was eliminated by blindfolding the rats, H...

Deriving Baseline Detection Algorithms from Verbal Descriptions

The presented strategy of automatic baseline detection in chromatograms combines fuzzy logic and neural network approaches. It is based on a verbal description of a baseline referring to a 2D image of a chromatogram instead of a data vector. Baselines are expected to touch data points on the lower border of the chromatogram forming a mainly horizontal and straight line. That description has bee...

Modeling Spatial Knowledge from Verbal Descriptions

Over the past few years, several alternative approaches have been suggested to represent the spatial knowledge that emerges from natural environments. This paper introduces a rule-based approach whose objective is to generate a spatial semantic network derived from several humans reporting a navigation process in a natural environment. Verbal descriptions are decomposed and characterized by a g...

Object Descriptions Revisited

Cue-elicited negative affect in impulsive smokers.

Impulsivity is associated with cigarette smoking, but the nature of this relationship and the mechanisms that maintain it are relatively unknown. The relationship has often been thought to reflect appetitive processes, but research suggests that an affective pathway exists as well. The present study tested the effect of impulsivity on affective responses to an environmental smoking cue. Adult s...