Three hypotheses of forgetting from immediate memory were tested: time-based decay, decreasing temporal distinctiveness, and interference. The hypotheses were represented by 3 models of serial recall: the primacy model, the SIMPLE (scale-independent memory, perception, and learning) model, and the SOB (serial order in a box) model, respectively. The models were fit to 2 experiments investigatin...

In this study, dynamic bearing capacity of adjacent shallow strip foundations located on sandy soil was examined using a numerical finite difference modeling, FLAC. The behavioral interference of shallow strip foundations under different conditions was investigated. The effect of soil strength parameters, geometric characteristics of shallow foundations and cyclic loads at different distance ra...

Coordinated multi-point transmission and reception (CoMP) is introduced in LTE-A to mitigate co-channel interference and improve the cell-edge user experience. In this paper we propose a joint transmission scheme for LTE-CoMP and we enhance the performance of CoMP with two techniques: 1dynamic MIMO cell selection and 2closed loop MIMO with global precoding matrix selection. A cell-edge user sel...

Learning curves, which express performance as a function of the cumulative number repetitions when performing given task, have long tradition supporting managerial decisions in production and operations management. Performance generally improves task increases, with latter being primary proxy to reflect experience. A learning curve is usually maximum-likelihood trend-line that best fits raw dat...

A previously developed ACT-R/threaded cognition model of dual-task interference (Borst, Taatgen & Van Rijn, 2009) was used to predict neuroimaging data in four brain areas. These predictions were tested in an fMRI experiment, which confirmed the predictions in three of the areas. The fourth area, the intraparietal sulcus, showed a different pattern than predicted. To account for this, a new map...

Electrical scalp recordings revealed the brain's sensitivity to both lexical properties of words and their contextual fit with a previous sentence context around 400 ms after word presentation. The so-called N400 component has been suggested to reflect the cost either of target word recognition or of a postlexical process for integrating word meaning into a context. In a sentence comprehension ...

Siring success of flowering plants depends on the fates male gametophytes, which compete for access to stigmas, stylar resources, and ovules. Although rarely considered, pollen may often during dispersal, affecting processes required export stigmas: pickup, transport, deposition. We quantified dispersal interference by tracking bee-mediated stained Anacamptis morio (Orchidaceae) from individual...