Operant conditioning of the H-reflex, the electrical analog of the spinal stretch reflex, is a simple model of skill acquisition and involves plasticity in the spinal cord. Previous work showed that the cerebellum is essential for down-conditioning the H-reflex. This study asks whether the cerebellum is also essential for maintaining down-conditioning. After rats decreased the soleus H-reflex o...

Not all of the variance in speech-recognition performance of cochlear implant (CI) users can be explained by biographic and auditory factors. In normal-hearing listeners, linguistic and cognitive factors determine most of speech-in-noise performance. The current study explored specifically the influence of visually measured lexical-access ability compared with other cognitive factors on speech ...

The Maximum Carpool Matching problem is a star packing problem in directed graphs. Formally, given a directed graph G = (V,A), a capacity function c : V → N, and a weight function w : A → R+, a carpool matching is a subset of arcs, M ⊆ A, such that every v ∈ V satisfies: (i) din M (v) · dout M (v) = 0, (ii) din M (v) ≤ c(v), and (iii) dout M (v) ≤ 1. A vertex v for which dout M (v) = 1 is a pas...