Running title: Feature-based attention and pupil size 8 Corresponding Author: 9 Paola Binda, PhD 10 Universita’ di Pisa, Department of Translational Research on New Technologies in 11 Medicine and Surgery 12 via San Zeno 31, 56126 Pisa (Italy) 13 Office: +39-050-3153185 14 [email protected] 15 16 17 The authors declare no competing financial interests 18 19 Acknowledgments 20 This research was...

viktor frankl, a neurologist and the founder of logo-therapy (1969) stated that “will to meaning” is the basic essence of the universe (1). logo-therapy means therapy through meaning, which is based on the premise that man has a will-to-meaning; the meaning thus lies in suffering(2). one of the most important human functions is discovering meaning in life, which is also considered as a sign of ...

We undertook the first market trading experiments that allowed heterogeneously informed subjects to trade in endogenous time, collecting over 2000 observed trades. Subjects’ decisions were generally in line with the predictions of exogenous-time financial herding theory when that theory is adjusted to allow rational informational herding and contrarianism. While herding and contrarianism did no...

Although diverse, theories of visual attention generally share the notion that attention is controlled by some combination of three distinct strategies: (1) exogenous cueing from locallycontrasting primitive visual features, such as abrupt onsets or color singletons (e.g., Itti & Koch, 2001); (2) endogenous gain modulation of exogenous activations, used to guide attention to task relevant featu...

Viktor Frankl, a neurologist and the founder of logo-therapy (1969) stated that “will to meaning” is the basic essence of the universe (1). Logo-therapy means therapy through meaning, which is based on the premise that man has a will-to-meaning; the meaning thus lies in suffering(2). One of the most important human functions is discovering meaning in life, which is also considered as a sign of...

today, most of the big cities or metropolises around the world have been encountering with the problem of informal habitation. the present study, thus, tries to focus on the role of endogenous development in such type of habitation process. for that matter, the paper takes into account architectural programming and urbanism as its theoretical framework because the endogenous development is rela...

This paper describes structured neural models and a computationally efficient (suboptimal) nonlinear Model Predictive Control (MPC) algorithm based on such models. The structured neural model has the ability to make future predictions of the process without being used recursively. Thanks to the nature of the model, the prediction error is not propagated. This is particularly important in the ca...