Two experiments were conducted to investigate the existence of long-term, detailed visual memory and whether this memory can be acquired incidentally. In both experiments, participants performed an intentional (Memorization) and an incidental (Visual Search) learning task while viewing photographs of real-world scenes. A memory test for previously viewed objects from both tasks then followed. P...

Bctusbdu ̋In this paper we want to minimize passengers waiting times at the bus stops by making buses wait at a stop. We compare a simple rule based approach to a MonteCarlo method for this problem. When allocated enough time, the Monte-Carlo method gives better results. If the passengers arrivals and the bus travel times are known, the best algorithm is nested Monte-Carlo search with memorizati...

This report presents three studies concerned with learning how to operote o simple control panel device, and how this learning is affected by understanding a device model that describes the internal mechanism of the device. The first experiment compared two groups, one of which learned o set of operoting procedures for the device by rote, and the other learned the device model before receiving ...

We have created a radial basis function network that allocates a new computational unit whenever an unusual pattern is presented to the network. The network learns by allocating new units and adjusting the parameters of existing units. If the network performs poorly on a presented pattern, then a new unit is allocated which memorizes the response to the presented pattern. If the network perform...

We propose an approach to address two undesired properties of unsupervised GANs. First, since GANs use only a continuous latent distribution to embed multiple classes or clusters of a dataset, GANs often do not correctly handle the structural discontinuity between disparate classes in a latent space. Second, discriminators of GANs easily forget about past generated samples by generators, incurr...

In this study, we asked young adults and older adults to encode pairs of words. For each item, they were told which strategy to use, interactive imagery or rote repetition. Data revealed poorer-strategy effects in both young adults and older adults: Participants obtained better performance when executing better strategies (i.e., interactive-imagery strategy to encode pairs of concrete words; ro...