Previous experiments using trains of high-frequency filtered clicks have shown that for lateralization based on interaural difference of time or level, there is a decline in the usefulness of interaural information after the signal's onset when the clicks are presented at a high rate. This process has been referred to as "binaural adaptation." Of interest here are the conditions that produce a ...

Multi-task clustering improves the clustering performance of each task by transferring knowledge across related tasks. Most existing multi-task clustering methods are based on the ideal assumption that the tasks are completely related. However, in many real applications, the tasks are usually partially related, and brute-force transfer may cause negative effect which degrades the clustering per...

Given a complex manifold M equipped with a holomorphic action of a connected complex Lie group G, and a holomorphic principal H–bundle EH over X equipped with a G–connection h, we investigate the connections on the principal H–bundle EH that are (strongly) adapted to h. Examples are provided by holomorphic principal H– bundles equipped with a flat partial connection over a foliated manifold.

Evolutionary psychology raises questions about how cognitive adaptations might be related to the emergence of formal schooling. Is there a special role for natural domains of cognition such as folk physics, folk psychology and folk biology? These domains may vary from small fragments of reasoning to large integrated systems. This heterogeneity complicates claims about abilities to inhibit folk ...

In this paper, a subband coding system which dynamically adapts to the local orientation of image features is investigated. In particular, the re-orientation scheme proposed in [1] is used in conjunction with a separable octave-band subband decomposition. This is then followed by e cient coding techniques such embedded zerotrees, trellis coded quantization, and stackrun coding. The coded images...

When mathematicians present proofs they usually adapt their explanations to their didactic goals and to the (assumed) knowledge of their addressees. Modern automated theorem provers, in contrast, present proofs usually at a fixed level of detail (also called granularity). Often these presentations are neither intended nor suitable for human use. A challenge therefore is to develop userand goal-...

The discrimination technique for estimating parameters of Gaussian mixtures that is based on the Extended Baum-Welch transformations (EBW) has had significant impact on the speech recognition community. In this paper we introduce a general definition of a family of EBW transformations that can be associated with a weighted sum of updated and initial models. We compute a gradient steepness measu...