Authors: Martin R. Vasilev, Fabrice B. R. Parmentier, Julie A. Kirkby
arXiv
Novel or unexpected sounds that deviate from an otherwise repetitive sequence of the same sound cause behavioural distraction. Recent work has suggested that distraction also occurs during reading as...
Authors: Xilin Liu, Hongjie Zhu, Tian Qiu, Srihari Y. Sritharan, Dengteng Ge, Shu Yang, Milin Zhang, Andrew G. Richardson, Timothy H. Lucas, Nader Engheta, Jan Van der Spiegel
arXiv
Sensory feedback is critical to the performance of neural prostheses that restore movement control after neurological injury. Recent advances in direct neural control of paralyzed arms present new req...
Authors: Liying Luo, James S. Hodges
arXiv
Random effects (RE) models have been widely used to study the contextual effects of structures such as neighborhood or school. The RE approach has recently been applied to age-period-cohort (APC) mode...
Authors: Morgane Hamon, Emma Chabani, Philippe Giraudeau
arXiv
Lucid dreaming (LD) is a phenomenon during which the person is aware that he/she dreaming and is able to control the dream content. Studies have shown that only 20% of people can experience lucid drea...
Authors: Nancy Lynch, Cameron Musco, Merav Parter
arXiv
In this work we study biological neural networks from an algorithmic perspective, focusing on understanding tradeoffs between computation time and network complexity. Our goal is to abstract real neur...
Authors: Basil Saeed, Anastasiya Belyaeva, Yuhao Wang, Caroline Uhler
arXiv
We consider the problem of learning a causal graph in the presence of measurement error. This setting is for example common in genomics, where gene expression is corrupted through the measurement proc...
Authors: Guruprasad Raghavan, Matt Thomson
arXiv
Living neural networks emerge through a process of growth and self-organization that begins with a single cell and results in a brain, an organized and functional computational device. Artificial neur...
Authors: Andreas Groll, Christophe Ley, Gunther Schauberger, Hans Van Eetvelde, Achim Zeileis
arXiv
In this work, we combine two different ranking methods together with several other predictors in a joint random forest approach for the scores of soccer matches. The first ranking method is based on t...
Authors: Andreas Brink-Kjaer, Alexander Neergaard Olesen, Paul E. Peppard, Katie L. Stone, Poul Jennum, Emmanuel Mignot, Helge B. D. Sorensen
arXiv
Cortical arousals are transient events of disturbed sleep that occur spontaneously or in response to stimuli such as apneic events. The gold standard for arousal detection in human polysomnographic re...
Authors: Luca Bagnato, Antonio Punzo
arXiv
Many statistical problems involve the estimation of a $\left(d\times d\right)$ orthogonal matrix $\textbf{Q}$. Such an estimation is often challenging due to the orthonormality constraints on $\textbf...
Authors: Caglar Cakan, Klaus Obermayer
arXiv
Electrical stimulation of neural systems is a key tool for understanding neural dynamics and ultimately for developing clinical treatments. Many applications of electrical stimulation affect large pop...
Authors: Kellyn F. Arnold, Vinny Davies, Marc de Kamps, Peter W. G. Tennant, John Mbotwa, Mark S. Gilthorpe
arXiv
Prediction and causal explanation are fundamentally distinct tasks of data analysis. In health applications, this difference can be understood in terms of the difference between prognosis (prediction)...
Authors: P R Protachevicz, M S Santos, E G Seifert, E C Gabrick, F S Borges, R R Borges, J Trobia, J D Szezech, K C Iarosz, I L Caldas, C G Antonopoulos, Y Xu, R L Viana, A M Batista
arXiv
Noise appears in the brain due to various sources, such as ionic channel fluctuations and synaptic events. They affect the activities of the brain and influence neuron action potentials. Stochastic di...
Authors: Ibrahim Alabdulmohsin
arXiv
Achieving the Bayes optimal binary classification rule subject to group fairness constraints is known to be reducible, in some cases, to learning a group-wise thresholding rule over the Bayes regresso...
Authors: Omar El Housni, Mika Sumida, Paat Rusmevichientong, Huseyin Topaloglu, Serhan Ziya
arXiv
The "New York State on Pause" executive order came into effect on March 22 with the goal of ensuring adequate social distancing to alleviate the spread of COVID-19. Pause will remain effective in New...