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Kazuma Nagashima, Jumpei Nishikawa, Junya Morita
Immersion in a task is a prerequisite for creativity. However, excessive arousal in a single task has drawbacks, such as overlooking events outside of the task. To examine such a negative aspect, this study constructs a computational model of arousal dynamics where the excessively increased arousal makes the task…
Yingru Liu, Xuewen Yang, Dongliang Xie, Xin Wang + 3 more
'Haozhi Huang' 'Niranjan Balasubramanian'] Multi-task learning (MTL) is a common paradigm that seeks to improve the generalization performance of task learning by training related tasks simultaneously. However, it is still a challenging problem to search the flexible and accurate architecture that can be shared among…
Hideya Koshino, Takehiro Minamoto, Takashi Ikeda, Mariko Osaka + 3 more
'Yuki Otsuka' 'Naoyuki Osaka' 'Ben J. Harrison'] Background The anterior prefrontal cortex (PFC) exhibits activation during some cognitive tasks, including episodic memory, reasoning, attention, multitasking, task sets, decision making, mentalizing, and processing of self-referenced information. However, the medial…
Jen Lewis, Kevin Gurney
The performance of routine action sequences constitutes a significant proportion of human behaviour, and has received much attention in the cognitive psychology literature. However, a neuroanatomically plausible explanation of the cognitive processes underlying this routine sequential behaviour has hitherto remained…
Benjamin David Winter, William John Teahan
—Activation functions play a critical role in the performance and behaviour of neural networks, significantly impacting their ability to learn and generalise. Traditional activation functions, such as ReLU, sigmoid, and tanh, have been widely used with considerable success. However, these functions may not always…
Chia-Feng Lu, Yan-Ci Liu, Yea-Ru Yang, Yu-Te Wu + 2 more
'Mikhail A. Lebedev'] In daily life, mobility requires walking while performing a cognitive or upper-extremity motor task. Although previous studies have evaluated the effects of dual tasks on gait performance, few studies have evaluated cortical activation and its association with gait disturbance during dual tasks.…
Ausaf A Farooqui, Tom Manly
The well-known deactivation of the Default Mode Network (DMN) during external tasks is usually thought to reflect the suppression of internally directed mental activity during external attention. In 3 experiments with human participants we organized sequences of task events identical in their attentional and control…
Swati M. Surkar, Chia-Cheng Lin, Brittany Trotter, Tyler Phinizy + 2 more
Dual-task (DT) training, which involves the simultaneous execution of cognitive and motor tasks, has been shown to influence task performance and cortical activation, yet evidence on the effects of DT training and cortical activation for complex postural control tasks remains limited. This study investigated the…
Carlos González-García, Silvia Formica, David Wisniewski, Marcel Brass
A key aspect of human cognitive flexibility concerns the ability to rapidly convert complex symbolic instructions into novel behaviors. Previous research proposes that this fast configuration is supported by two differentiated neurocognitive states, namely, an initial declarative maintenance of task knowledge, and a…
Ausaf A Farooqui, Tom Manly
Accounts of hierarchical cognition suggest that extended task episodes as one task entity and not individually execute their component acts. Such hierarchical execution is frequently thought to occur by first instantiating a sequence representation in working memory that then controls the identity and sequence of…
Markus Raab
Mobile applications today often fail to be context aware when they also need to be customizable and efficient at run-time. Context-oriented programming allows programmers to develop applications that are more context aware. Its central construct, the so-called layer, however, is not customizable. We propose to use…
Wojciech Dudek, Daniel Giełdowski, Tomasz Winiarski
tasks Authors: ['Wojciech Dudek' 'Daniel Giełdowski' 'Tomasz Winiarski'] Abstract—Service robots work in a changing environment habited by exogenous agents like humans. In the service robotics domain, lots of uncertainties result from exogenous actions and inaccurate localisation of objects and the robot itself. This…
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This paper presents GLAS (Git-based Lab Automated Scheduler or Get Lab Automation Simplified), an open-source, robust, and highly expandable Git-based architecture designed for laboratory automation. GLAS can be deployed in both partially and fully automated experimental science laboratories, enabling the development…
Nathalie Liegel, Daniel Schneider, Edmund Wascher, Laura-Isabelle Klatt + 1 more
In some situations, e.g., when we expect to gain a reward in case of good performance, goal-driven top-down attention is particularly strong. Little is known about the task specificity of such increases of top-down attention due to environmental factors. To understand to what extent performance-contingent reward…
Mart Lubbers, Pieter Koopman, Rinus Plasmeijer
The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing fast. In 2018, there was approximately one connected device per person on earth and the number has been growing ever since. The devices interact with the environment via different modalities at the same time using sensors and actuators making the programs parallel. Yet, writing…
Connor Taylor, Kobi Felton, Daniel Wigh, Mohammed Jeraal + 4 more
Functionalization of C–H bonds is a key challenge in medicinal chemistry, particularly for fragment-based drug discovery (FBDD) where such transformations need to be executed in the presence of polar functionality necessary for fragment-protein binding. New technologies such as high-throughput experimentation and…
E.Z. Meilikhov, R.M. Farzetdinova
We present the simple phenomenological (but - analytic) model allowing to formalize description of multitasking, i.e. simultaneous performing several tasks. That process requires distribution of attention, and for great number of goals do not lead to success. Our consideration shows that simultaneous performing more…
Peter Kraus, Edan Bainglass, Francisco F. Ramirez, Enea Svaluto-Ferro + 7 more
Compliance with good research data management practices means trust in the integrity of the data, and it is achievable by a full control of the data gathering process. In this work, we demonstrate tooling which bridges these two aspects, and illustrate its use in a case study of automated battery cycling. We…
Xinchen HE, Quoc Bao Pham, Yi CHEN, Yuyao GUO
Hydrogen is a widely used reductive reagent in organic synthesis. The direct reactions between dihydrogen and other organic compounds are very difficult, due to the high stability of hydrogen molecules. To solve this problem, some strategies for dihydrogen activation have been developed. In this review, we are going to…
Alberto G. Salguero, Macarena Espinilla, Pablo Delatorre, Javier Medina
'Javier Medina'] The recognition of activities of daily living is an important research area of interest in recent years. The process of activity recognition aims to recognize the actions of one or more people in a smart environment, in which a set of sensors has been deployed. Usually, all the events produced during…