The selective transfer of task knowledge is studied within the context of multiple task learning (MTL) neural networks. Given a consolidated MTL network of previously learned tasks and a new primary task, T0, a measure of task relatedness is derived. The existing consolidated MTL network representation is fixed and an output for task T0 is connected to the hidden nodes of the network and traine...

Emotional events are remembered better than neutral events possibly because the amygdala enhances the function of medial temporal lobe (MTL) memory system (modulation hypothesis). Although this hypothesis has been supported by much animal research, evidence from humans has been scarce and indirect. We investigated this issue using event-related fMRI during encoding of emotional and neutral pict...

It has been suggested that complex visual discrimination deficits in patients with medial temporal lobe (MTL) damage may be explained by damage or dysfunction beyond the MTL. We examined the resting functional networks and white matter connectivity of two amnesic patients who have consistently demonstrated discrimination impairments for complex object and/or spatial stimuli across a number of s...

Semantic memory consolidation was studied by comparing medial temporal lobe (MTL) fMRI activation to ANIMAL, IMPLEMENT and ABSTRACT nouns in healthy seniors to that of young adults. Relative to healthy seniors, young adults were predicted to show greater MTL activation for IMPLEMENTS, but not ANIMALS, because the ANIMALS category consists of highly intercorrelated and overlapping features that ...

The prevailing view of medial temporal lobe (MTL) function has two principal elements: first, that the MTL subserves memory but not perception, and second, that the many anatomically distinctive parts of the MTL function together in the service of declarative memory. Recent neuropsychological studies have, however, challenged both opinions. First, studies in rodents, nonhuman primates, and huma...

Mannitol (Mtl) fermentation, with the subsequent production of acid, is a species signature of Staphylococcus aureus, and discriminates it from most other members of the genus. Inactivation of the gene mtlD, encoding Mtl-1-P dehydrogenase was found to markedly reduce survival in the presence of the antimicrobial fatty acid, linoleic acid. We demonstrate that the sugar alcohol has a potentiating...

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) is a learning paradigm in machine and its aim to leverage useful information contained multiple related tasks help improve the generalization performance of all tasks. In this paper, we give survey for MTL from perspective algorithmic modeling, applications theoretical analyses. For definition then classify different algorithms into five categories, including feature a...

We construct Boolean-valued term models and describe their universal properties. The underlying set of these models consists of the terms of the underlying language, while formulae are interpreted in the Lindenbaum-Tarski algebra of open formulae. Subspaces of the Stone space of the Lindenbaum-Tarski algebra of open formulae are shown to be homeomorphic to spaces of enumerated models models equ...

We study the concept of finitary formal topology, a point-free version of a topological space with a basis of compact open subsets. The notion of finitary formal topology is defined from the perspective of the Basic Picture (introduced by the second author) and thus it is endowed with a binary positivity relation. As an application, we prove a constructive version of Stone’s representation theo...

The contributions of the hippocampal formation and adjacent regions of the medial temporal lobe (MTL) to memory are still a matter of debate. It is currently unclear, to what extent discrepancies between previous human lesion studies may have been caused by the choice of distinct patient models of MTL dysfunction, as disorders affecting this region differ in selectivity, laterality and mechanis...