The development of exceptional and unexpected artistic skills at any age must be a matter of curiosity. This can occur among young children with severe learning difficulties, especially if they are autistic. Some examples of these so called idiot-savants are given, and the way in which their brains may function. It is also true that elderly people who suffer from frontotemporal dementia can fin...

Thagard, P. (forthcoming). Artistic genius and creative cognition. INTRODUCTION There are highly creative people in all domains of human productivity, including scientific discovery, technological invention, social innovation, and artistic imagination. All of these kinds of creativity require mental operations that generate ideas and other products that are both new and valuable. The main quest...

We provide a new perspective on the impact of unauthorized copying and copy levies on artistic creation. Our analysis emphasizes three important aspects of artistic markets: the predominance of superstars, the dynamics of talent sorting, and the importance of promotion expenditures. In the short run, piracy reduces superstars’ earnings and market share, and increases the number of niche and you...

ion Abstraction has been heralded as the hallmark of mathematics and computer science, but it is important to isolate abstraction for its fundamental properties, which appear to often be confused with the material which goes into making signs. The concept of abstraction can surface as a reason not to employ more extravagant forms. However, abstraction cannot completely come to the rescue becaus...

ALTERNE (Alternative Realities in Networked Environments) platform aims at providing a high level of integration between various techniques supporting mixed reality, graphics, interaction and behavioral models. This paper focuses on two collaborative aspects the platform provides. First, it contains a virtual object repository, which allows artists to share their ideas and support collaboration...

Since the utilization of multiuser diversity in wireless networks can increase the information theoretic capacity, much attention has been paid to schedulers exploiting multiuser diversity. It is known that there exists a tradeoff between the capacity and fairness achieved by schedulers exploiting multiuser diversity. Due to its good balance between the capacity and fairness, the one-bit feedba...

Vehicle fetishism is a near-ubiquitous cultural attitude in theorizing about the arts. It commonly occurs as a background assumption, if not an explicit belief, that the physical vehicles, by means of which the artistic meaning or content of artworks is communicated, must somehow themselves be integral parts of the relevant artworks. Of course, such a primitivist or magical view about the power...

From art portraits, the observer may derive at least two different hedonic values: The attractiveness of the depicted person and the artistic beauty of the image that relates to the way of presentation. We argue that attractiveness is a property that is predominantly driven by perceptual processes, while the perception of artistic beauty is based predominantly on cognitive processing. To test t...

Efficient radio resource allocation algorithm is proposed in this paper. Proportional fair algorithm gives favorable performance compared to two classical algorithms max-C/I and RR. But PF algorithm does not consider QoS parameters while allocating resources to the users. Moreover with less transmission power utilization Fairness disappears in PF algorithm. A PFQoS-Centric is proposed in this p...

The important issue of an adaptive scheduling scheme is to maximize throughput while providing fair services to all users, especially under strict quality of service requirements. To achieve this goal, we consider the problem of multiuser scheduling under a given fairness constraint. A novel Adaptive Fairness and Throughput Control (AFTC) approach is proposed to maximize the network throughput ...