We consider two Bayesian agents who learn from exogenously provided private signals, as well as the actions of the other. Our main finding is that increased interaction between the agents can lower the speed of learning: when both agents observe each other, learning is significantly slower than it is when one only observes the other. This slowdown is driven by a process in which a consensus on ...

This study examined the perceptual processing of time-gated auditory-visual (AV), auditory (A), and visual (V) spoken words. The primary goal was to assess the extent to which stimulus information versus perceptual processing limitations underlie modality-related perceptual encoding speed differences in AV, A, and V spoken word recognition. Another goal was to add to the scant literature on the...

A radius–based separation of selection and recombination spheres in diffusion model EAs is introduced, enabling a new taxonomy, oriented towards information flow analysis. It also contains parallel hillclimbers, panmictic EA and an unexplored area. Experiments are performed systematically on five complex binary and real coded problems in search of the best performing variants w.r.t. available o...

How the firing rate of a neuron carries information depends on the time over which rates are measured. For very short times, the amount of information conveyed depends, in a universal way, on the mean rates only (trial-to-trial variability is irrelevant) and the cell response can be taken to be binary (although an ideal binary response would convey more). For longer times, noise as well as the ...