This article reports two studies that investigate short-term memory (STM) deficits in dyslexic children and explores the relationship between STM and reading acquisition. In the first experiment, 36 dyslexic children and 61 control children performed an item STM task and a serial order STM task. The results of this experiment show that dyslexic children do not suffer from a specific serial orde...

In this paper, we present the results of a study on dynamic models for predicting sequences of musical pitch in melodies. Such models predict a probability distribution over the possible values of the next pitch in a sequence, which is obtained by combining the prediction of two components (1) a long-term model (LTM) learned offline on a corpus of melodies, as well as (2) a short-term model (ST...

Building models is an important way of integrating knowledge. Testing and updating models of social-ecological systems can inform management decisions and, ultimately, improve resilience. We report on the outcomes of a six-year, multidisciplinary model development process in the sagebrush steppe, USA. We focused on creating state-and-transition models (STMs), conceptual models of ecosystem chan...

of the system. We regard this result as very signicant, in view of the fact that the same holds for the limited psychological ability of attention and STM. It may indicate that the oscillatory model contains the key to the understanding of these psychological ndings. In order to validate the hypothesis that STM is based on oscillatory correlations between ring rates of neurons, some more experi...

ABSTRACT: A statistical mechanics of neuronal interactions (SMNI) is explored as providing some a basis for correlating EEG evoked potentials to reaction times. Some specific elements of SMNI, previously used to develop a theory of short-term memory (STM) and a model of electroencephalography (EEG) are key to providing this basis. Hick’s Law, an observed linear relationship between reaction tim...

We investigate a model where superconducting electrons are coupled to a frequency dependent charge-density wave order parameter Delta_{r}(omega). Our approach can reconcile the simultaneous existence of low-energy Bogoljubov quasiparticles and high energy electronic order as observed in scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) experiments. The theory accounts for the contrast reversal in the STM spe...

ABSTRACT: A statistical mechanics of neuronal interactions (SMNI) is explored as providing some substance to a physiological basis of the g factor. Some specific elements of SMNI, previously used to develop a theory of short-term memory (STM) and a model of electroencephalography (EEG) are key to providing this basis. Specifically, Hick’s Law, an observed linear relationship between reaction ti...

The activity of SHOOT MERISTEMLESS (STM) is required for the functioning of the shoot apical meristem (SAM). STM is expressed in the SAM but is down-regulated at the site of leaf initiation. STM is also required for the formation of compound leaves. However, how the activity of STM is regulated at the transcriptional, posttranscriptional, and posttranslational levels is poorly understood. We pr...