1Institute of Mental Health 2Department of Psychiatry, Singapore General Hospital Address for Correspondence: Dr Kuan Tsee Chee, Woodbridge Hospital and Institute of Mental Health, Buangkok Green Medical Park, 10 Buangkok View, Singapore 539747. Email: [email protected] Introduction In medical disease, there are physical and/or mental symptoms and generally, there is a recognised aetiol...

This text comments on Cytowic's recent review on the current knowledge on synesthesia. Recent neurophysiological findings are discussed that suggest crossmodal interference in the mammalian brain. Based on these results, it is proposed that synesthesia may not be restricted to the phenomenologically characterized abnormality described in Cytowic's review, but rather that it may encompass a seri...

s: This paper presents a novel approach to improve the performance of genetic algorithms called genetic algorithms with real-coded binary representation (GARB). The proposed algorithm is capable of maintaining the population diversity during the whole run which protects it from premature convergence. This is achieved by using a special encoding scheme with a high redundancy, which is supported ...