What has been lost from the Serbian 13th century menaia?

What has been learned from computational models of attention

There are few fields where neurocomputational modelling 1 is as necessary as in that of attention — a multifaceted and 2 elusive process that is at the very core of cognition and con3 sciousness (James, 1890). While descriptive theories of at4 tentional functions, relying on a plethora of metaphors (spot5 light/zoomlens, increased-gain, biased-competition), abound, 6 computational models that a...

Memory Training Interventions: What has been forgotten?

Memory training for older adults often produces gains that are limited to the particular memory tasks encountered during training. We suggest that memory training programs may be misguided by an implicit "generalist" assumption-memory training on a couple of memory tasks will have a positive benefit on memory ability in general. One approach to increase memory-training benefits is to target tra...

Audio Indexing: What Has Been Accomplished and the Road Ahead

This paper presents an overview of audio indexing, which has emerged very recently as a research topic with the development of Internet. A lot of data, including audio data, are currently not indexed by web search engines, and audio indexing consists in finding good descriptors of audio documents which can be used as indexes for archiving and search. We discuss speech/music segmentation, langua...

Space and the vestibular system: what has been learned?

A three-dimensional color space from the 13th century.

We present a new commentary on Robert Grosseteste's De colore, a short treatise that dates from the early 13th century, in which Grosseteste constructs a linguistic combinatorial account of color. In contrast to other commentaries (e.g., Kuehni & Schwarz, Color Ordered: A Survey of Color Order Systems from Antiquity to the Present, 2007, p. 36), we argue that the color space described by Grosse...