Recent connectionist models of the perception and production of words make use of positive feedback from later to earlier levels of processing. This paper focuses on production and identifies several specific effects of phoneme-tomorpheme feedback. In addition. I orgue that there is support for the use of this kind of feedback in production from experimental and naturalistic studies of slips of...

To facilitate medical students’ diagnostic knowledge a case-based worked example approach was realized in a complex computer-based learning environment. To enhance the effectiveness of the approach the measures erroneous examples and elaborated feedback were additionally implemented. 153 medical students were randomly assigned to four experimental conditions of a 2x2-factorial design (errors vs...

Effective interpersonal coordination is fundamental to robust social interaction, and the ability to anticipate a co-actor’s behavior is essential for achieving this coordination. However, coordination research has focused on the behavioral synchrony that occurs between the simple periodic movements of co-actors and, thus, little is known about the anticipation that occurs during complex, every...

Consumer feedbacks have been widely used for product improvement. These consumer reviews reveal customer sentiments (e.g., like/dislike, fulfilled/unfulfilled etc.) about products and the degree of sentiments as well. These reviews are good sources to gauge customer feelings, which are important to make essential business decisions. In this research, we analyzed textual movie reviews semi-autom...

Given a bimodal system defined by the equations { ẋ(t) = A1x(t) + Bu(t) if cx(t) ≤ 0 ẋ(t) = A2x(t) + Bu(t) if cx(t) ≥ 0 (1) where B ∈Mn,m and Ai ∈Mn, i = 1, 2, are such that A1, A2 coincide on the hyperplane V =Kerc. We consider in the set of matrices defining the above systems the simultaneous feedback equivalence defined by ([A1, B], [A2, B]) ∼ ([A1, B′], [A2, B′]) if [Ai B ′] = S−1[Ai B] [ S...

There is a view that knowledge management (KM) is primarily a business concept that can bring increased profitability for commercial organisations. However, the management of processes such as knowledge creation, capture, sharing and use are not exclusive to business; good KM practices can bring benefits to all organisations. Given higher education’s (HE) priority of developing knowledge assets...

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Recent experiments on ants and slime moulds have assessed the degree to which they make rational decisions when presented with a number of alternative food sources or shelter. Ants and slime moulds are just two examples of a wide range of species and biological processes that use positive feedback mechanisms to reach decisions. Here we use a generic, experimentally validated model of positive f...