Arabic digits are one of the most ubiquitous symbol sets in the world. While there have been many investigations into the neural processing of the semantic information digits represent (e.g. through numerical comparison tasks), little is known about the neural mechanisms which support the processing of digits as visual symbols. To characterise the component neurocognitive mechanisms which under...

The objective of PIVOT, a program ParallelizatIon and VisualizatiOn environmenT, described in this paper is to provide a programming environment that facilitates restructuring of programs for parallelization. The environment supports a range of facilities, including visual and textual forms of specifications for code transformations, automatic generation of transformers from specifications, int...

Patterns of spontaneous activity in the developing retina, LGN, and cortex are necessary for the proper development of visual cortex. With these patterns intact, the primary visual cortices of many newborn animals develop properties similar to those of the adult cortex but without the training benefit of visual experience. Previous models have demonstrated how V1 responses can be initialized th...

Templates are a language feature of C++ and can be used for metapro-gramming. The metaprogram is executed by the compiler and outputs source code which is then compiled. Templates are widely used in software libraries but few tools exist for programmers developing template code. In particular, error messages are often cryptic. During template instantiation, a compiler looks up names that depend...

Model Driven Architecture adopts a visual approach to software development. The main development activities are the construction of visual (typically Unified Modelling Language (UML)) models and the transformation of source models into target models, including application code generation. The use of visual models to produce application code often starts at the design (Platform Independent Model...

The visual system is the most studied sensory pathway, which is partly because visual stimuli have rather intuitive properties. There are reasons to think that the underlying principle ruling coding, however, is the same for vision and any other type of sensory signal, namely the code has to satisfy some notion of optimality--understood as minimum redundancy or as maximum transmitted informatio...