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Email Massimiliano Oliveri We thank Dr. Derakhshan for the intriguing comments about a putative influence of temporal factors in spatial biases observed in healthy subjects during a numerical distance judgement task. [1] Based on the hypothesis that motor and sensory activations of the non-dominant side involve a sequential activation from the dominant to the non-dominant hemisphere mediated by...

A new neural network architecture is proposed and applied in classification of data from multiple sources. The new arclhitecture is called a consensual neural network and its relation to hierarchical and ensemble neural networks is discussed. The consenr;ual neural nebwork architecture is based on statistical consensus theory and invol.ves using non-linearly transformed input data. The input da...

Information processing of p the control of various types of in networks including the hippoc preference cortical GABAergic innervating the perisomatic regi cells targeting their dendrites. inhibitory cells can effectively sodium-dependent action potentia activity of large assemblies of pyr The group of perisomatic consists of basket cells (BCs) with spiking (RSBCs) phenotype, as w cells (AACs)....

improved recognition of the symptoms, greater parental concern, and possible epigenetic factors and modifications of gene expression. The theory that the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and thimerosol were responsible for the apparent increased prevalence of autism has largely been put to rest (Madsen KM et al. Pediatrics 2003;112:604-606; Smeeth L et al. Lancet 2004;364:963-969). ASD has a...

A new evolut ionary method for the global optimizat ion of fun ctions wit h cont inuous vari ab les is proposed . This algorit hm can be viewed as an efficient par allelization of the simula ted annealing technique , although a suitable interval coding shows a close ana logy between real-coded genet ic algorit hms and the pr oposed meth od , called int erval genetic algorithm . Some well-define...

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Pruning algorit hms for feed-forward neur al networks typically have the undesirable side effect of int erfering with t he learning pro cedure. The network reduct ion algorithm presented in this pap er is implemented by considering only directions in weight space that are orthogonal to those required by t he learning algorit hm. In this way, the network redu ction algorithm chooses a minimal ne...