6 Winnerless competition is a theoretical model used to study cognitive and 7 attention-based processes using the sequential switching between 8 metastable states of a neurodynamical system. This competition is observed 9 in both physical neural networks and in higher-ordered cognition. I 10 demonstrate this principle in a network of three interconnected Fitzhugh11 Nagumo neurons and in the wor...

Current theories and models of the formation of phyllotactic patterns at plant apical meristems center on either transport of the growth hormone auxin or the mechanical buckling of the plant tunica. By deriving a continuum approximation of an existing discrete biochemical model and comparing it with a mechanical model, we show that the model partial differential equations are similar in form. T...

The performance of an in-situ groundwater remediation project is a complicated function of many factors, including subsurface flow rates and patterns, diffusion/dispersion, rate of contamination from the source, retardation and rate of degradation of the contaminant(s), availability of co-reactants for degradation, etc. The complexity of the interactions between these phenomena makes it difficu...

We investigate population models with both continuous and discrete elements. Birth is assumed to occur at discrete instants of time whereas death and competition for resources and space occur continuously during the season. We compare the dynamics of such discrete-continuous hybrid models with the dynamics of purely discrete models where within-season mortality and competition are modelled dire...

This paper proposes a novel information theoretic approach to self-organization called cooperative information control. The method aims to mediate between competition and cooperation among neurons by controlling information content in neurons. Competition is realized by maximizing information content in neurons. In the process of information maximization, only a small number of neurons win the ...

To investigate whether subliminally priming for competition influences facial reactions to facial emotional displays, 49 participants were either subliminally competition primed or neutrally primed. Thereafter, they viewed computer generated avatar faces with happy, neutral, and sad expressions while Corrugator supercilii and Zygomaticus major reactions were recorded. Results revealed facial mi...

This paper proposes a novel information theoretic approach to self-organization called cooperative information control. The method aims to mediate between competition and cooperation among neurons by controlling information content in neurons. Competition is realized by maximizing information content in neurons. In the process of information maximization, only a small number of neurons win the ...

How the relative importance of community assembly processes varies with spatial scale is the focus of intensive debate, in part because inferring the scales at which specific niche-based processes act is difficult. One obstacle is that standard phylogenetic and functional diversity metrics may integrate the signals of multiple processes when combining separate niche axes into one variable (mult...