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Artificial Neural Networks: temporal summation, embedded ‘clocks’ and operant...
Artificial Neural Networks have historically focussed on modeling the brain as a collection of interconnected neurons. The individual neurons aggregate inputs and either produce an on/off output based...
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The situational factors: compliance, personality and charachter
I’ve recently come across a new blog the Situationist and have just read a three part article by the famed Phillip Zimbardo (who has conducted the Stanford prison experiments) titled Situational...
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Cloninger’s Temaparements and character traits: room for a behaviorist view?
Today I wish to discuss C. Robert Cloninger’s theory of temperaments and character traits. It is a psycho biological theory based on genetic and neural substrates and mechanisms and in it he proposes...
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A gene implicated in operant learning finally discovered
Till now, most of the research on learning at the molecular level or LTP/TLD has focused on classical conditioning paradigms. To my knowledge for the first time someone has started looking at whether ,...
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Major conscious and unconcoscious processes in the brain
Today I plan to touch upon the topic of consciousness (from which many bloggers shy) and more broadly try to delineate what I believe are the important different conscious and unconscious processes in...
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Between the Stimulus and the Response: the four functions of the Mind
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” Victor E Frankl Schematic of an idealized...
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Chomsky Vs. Skinner : a role for behaviorist ideas in Language Acquisition
Chomsky, in a classical paper, discusses Skinner’s book Verbal Behavior and the associated attempts of behaviorists to explain Language Acquisition as just another complex behavior learned entirely...
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Zombies, AI and Temporal Lobe Epilepsy : towards a universal consciousness...
I was recently reading an article on Zombies about how the Zombie argument has been used against physicalism and in consciousness debates in general, and one quote by Descartes at the beginning of the...
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Artificial Neural Networks: temporal summation, embedded ‘clocks’ and operant...
Artificial Neural Networks have historically focussed on modeling the brain as a collection of interconnected neurons. The individual neurons aggregate inputs and either produce an on/off output based...
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The Algorithm of The Brain
I know that the computer metaphor does not do justice to the brain, but can we conceivably come up with a universal algorithm in how the brain processes stimuli and reacts/responds to them? Further,...
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I know that the computer metaphor does not do justice to the brain, but can we conceivably come up with a universal algorithm in how the brain processes stimuli and reacts/responds to them? Further,...
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