The authors tested specificity and the guidance hypothesis by examining the effects of continuous or discrete concurrent feedback during acquisition, retention, and transfer of a 90° phase offset bimanual coordination pattern. The authors tested both groups immediately following acquisition, 1 week later under retention conditions (i.e., identical feedback as acquisition) and under transfer con...

Recent developments in the minimalist framework emphasise the importance of the interface between the narrow-syntactic component and the semantic (Conceptual-Intentional) component(s). Accordingly, recent syntactic theorising often endorses a desideratum of ‘interface transparency’: syntactic structures should be transparently legible for the C-I component(s). In this paper I wish to discuss fr...

The increasing availability of digital music has created a greater need for methods to organize large collections of music. The eXtensible PlayList (XPL) representation allows users to express playlists with varying degrees of specificity. XPL handles references to exact files or URLs as well as rules for selecting content based on metadata constraints. XPL also allows the transitions between t...

When attempting to code faces for modeling or recognition, estimates of dimensions are typically obtained from an ensemble. These tend to be significantly sub-optimal. Firstly, ensembles are rarely balanced with regard to identity and expression. This can be overcome by dividing the ensemble by type of variation and rotating sub-spaces relative to one another. Secondly, each face contains both ...

We present a novel modeling framework for representing category exemplars and features. This approach treats each category exemplar as a probability distribution over a hierarchically structured graph. The model jointly learns the mixture of each exemplar across categories in the graph, and a feature representation for each node in the graph, including nodes for which no data is directly observ...

Davidson’s philosophy can, in an important sense, be characterised as a form of normativism, the view that the mind has essential normative properties. But what is exactly the form of normativism that Davidson defends? In the first place, the norms of the mental, which are the norms of rationality in interpretation, do not have any normative force: they do not have any power of prescribing us h...

Specific indefinite noun phrases are prototypically referential expressions, show wide scope, are presuppositional, and indicate discourse prominence or “noteworthiness”. However, not all specific indefinites show these properties. The existence of so-called “narrow scope specific” or “relative specific” indefinites demonstrates that specificity cannot be explained by the wide scope of specific...