The topic of getting machines to play classical board games at the same level as top ranking human players, is a research area of artificial intelligence that has received a considerably amount of attention from researchers during the years. But although the area to this point has received quite a lot of attention, and there exist examples of computers that has defeated top ranking human player...

To investigate the developmental emergence of the ability to perceive the multisensory coherence of native and non-native audiovisual fluent speech, we tested 4-, 8-10, and 12-14 month-old English-learning infants. Infants first viewed two identical female faces articulating two different monologues in silence and then in the presence of an audible monologue that matched the visible articulatio...

Oscillatory activity is an emerging property of thalamocortical system. The patterns and the dominant frequencies of these oscillations depend on the functional state of the brain. Normal oscillatory activities include slow (0.1-15 Hz, present mainly during slow-wave sleep or anesthesia), fast (20-60 Hz) and ultra-fast (100-600 Hz) activities. The fast and ultra-fast activities may be present i...