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AGI
2011
12 years 8 months ago
What Makes a Brain Smart? Reservoir Computing as an Approach for General Intelligence
Abstract. Recurrent connectivity, balanced between excitation and inhibition, is a general principle of cortical connectivity. We propose that balanced recurrence can be achieved b...
Janelle Szary, Bryan Kerster, Christopher T. Kello
COGSCI
2010
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13 years 4 months ago
From Perceptual Categories to Concepts: What Develops?
People are remarkably smart: They use language, possess complex motor skills, make nontrivial inferences, develop and use scientific theories, make laws, and adapt to complex dyna...
Vladimir M. Sloutsky
PUC
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Homes that make us smart
In this article we consider what it should mean to build ‘‘smartness’’ or ‘‘intelligence’’ into the home. We introduce an argument suggesting that it is people who ...
Alex S. Taylor, Richard H. R. Harper, Laurel Swan,...
ETFA
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Self-describing devices in COSMIC
This paper describes an approach on the way towards dynamically configuring an application by discovering and using smart devices in a sensor/actuator network. The key to this are...
Jörg Kaiser, Hubert Piontek
JOCN
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Responding with Restraint: What Are the Neurocognitive Mechanisms?
■ An important aspect of cognitive control is the ability to respond with restraint. Here, we modeled this experimentally by measuring the degree of response slowing that occurs...
Sara Jahfari, Cathy M. Stinear, Mike Claffey, Fred...