The exploration of the features presented by the training sets of each class (size, shape and orientation) in order to construct the respective decision regions borders without making explicitly any statistical hypothesis is presented in this paper. Its incorporation allows defining more correct decision borders since there is a significant improvement in the classification rates obtained. Math...

Neuronal electrophysiology is in#uenced by both channel distribution and morphology. Distinguishing two sources of morphological variability*metrics and topology*we show that model neurons sharing the same channel densities and anatomical size can derive functional di!erentiation from their dendritic topology. Firing frequencies in these metrically reduced neurons show a strong correlation with...

In this paper a contrast operator built by means of two primitives involving Weber’s Law is presented. The proposed contrast mapping has two objectives, in the first place the contrast enhancement and in the second, the normalization of the processed image. The contrast enhancement is based on the image background detection; this parameter is computed through the analysis of the regional minimu...

Thomas and Baker (2012) have provided a balanced and critical review of the scientific evidence claiming that training interventions have the capacity to alter the structural morphology of the brain. Here I provide some additional considerations when reading and interpreting both the review and the original empirical articles. Research proposing to examine the capacity for structural brain plas...

In the words in (1a), we recognize a verbal base (dance, fight, sing, walk) followed by the suffix -er, and a corresponding systematic meaning pattern ‘one who Vs’, where V stands for the meaning of the verb. This recognition is based on a systematic form difference between the words in (1a) and those in (1b) that correlates with a systematic meaning difference: the words in (1a) have the addit...

This paper develops an argument that agreement (in particular NP-predicate agreement) is a morphological and not a syntactic phenomenon. Narrowly, I argue against the proposition that the configurational/positional licensing of NPs (what was considered to be the domain of Case Theory in the LGB framework of the 1980s) involves checking/matching/valuing of Φfeatures (person, number, gender) in t...

2. Correspondence Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.1 The Role and Character of Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.2 Some Constraints on Correspondent Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.3 Correspondence Theory an...