Big brain, small world?

Small-world Structure in Children’s Featured Semantic Networks

Background: Knowing the development pattern of children’s language is applicable in developmental psychology. Network models of language are helpful for the identification of these patterns.  Objectives: We examined the small-world properties of featured semantic networks of developing children. Materials & Methods: In this longitudinal study, the featured semantic networks of children aged 1...

Big Data, Small World

Big data usually includes data sets with sizes beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, curate, manage, and process data within a tolerable elapsed time. In this paper, we have discussed about the various characterstic’s of big data and how data is increasing day by day. There are various aspects of knowledge discovery that are discussed. Moreover, the small world phenomen...

Title: in the World of Big Data, Small Effects Can Still Matter: a Reply to Boyce Et Al. 2016

Tripartite organization of the ventral stream by animacy and object size.

Occipito-temporal cortex is known to house visual object representations, but the organization of the neural activation patterns along this cortex is still being discovered. Here we found a systematic, large-scale structure in the neural responses related to the interaction between two major cognitive dimensions of object representation: animacy and real-world size. Neural responses were measur...

Brain Projects Think Big

BIG BANG HUMAN BRAIN The universe started with the Big Bang some 13,500 million (billion) years ago. Then very recently, about 200,000 years ago, another " Big Bang " happened – Homo sapiens appeared on earth. It has many genetic similarities with other species such as the chimpanzee and, even more so, with other hominids such as the Neanderthals who lived with us until 30,000 or so years ago. ...

Mid-level perceptual features distinguish objects of different real-world sizes.

Understanding how perceptual and conceptual representations are connected is a fundamental goal of cognitive science. Here, we focus on a broad conceptual distinction that constrains how we interact with objects--real-world size. Although there appear to be clear perceptual correlates for basic-level categories (apples look like other apples, oranges look like other oranges), the perceptual cor...