Recent empirical International Relations research suggests that democracies, in general, are uniquely paci c. The strongest statistical results, however, have been obtained from datasets that violate the assumptions of the statistical models typically used in estimation. The most widely cited democratic peace studies, moreover, arbitrarily categorize relatively continuous democracy measures and...

Dyslexia research now faces an intriguing paradox. It is becoming increasingly clear that a significant proportion of dyslexics present sensory and/or motor deficits; however, as this 'sensorimotor syndrome' is studied in greater detail, it is also becoming increasingly clear that sensory and motor deficits will ultimately play only a limited role in a causal explanation of specific reading dis...

Previous studies using the dot perspective task have shown that adults are slower to verify the number of dots they can see in a picture when a human figure in the picture, an avatar, can see a different number of dots. This "self-consistency effect," which occurs even when the avatar's perspective is formally task-irrelevant, has been interpreted as evidence of implicit mentalizing; that human...

The ability to jointly consider several structured mental representations, or relations, is fundamental to human cognition. Prior studies have consistently linked this capacity for relational integration to rostrolateral prefrontal cortex (RLPFC). Here, we sought to test two competing hypotheses: (1) RLPFC processes relations in a domain-general manner, interacting with different brain regions ...

This paper describes an approach to reinforcement learning in multiagent general-sum games in which a learner is told to treat each other agent as either a \friend" or \foe". This Q-learning-style algorithm provides strong convergence guarantees compared to an existing Nash-equilibrium-based learning rule.

We study generic holomorphic families of dynamical systems presenting problems of small divisors with fixed arithmetic. We prove that we have convergence for all parameter values or divergence everywhere except for an exceptional set of zero Γ-capacity. We illustrate this general principle in different problems of small divisors. As an application we obtain new richer families of non-linearizab...