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Advantage of active learning on classification tasks
I am looking for a specific type of experimental test of active learning. Given some artificial or natural learning task that consists of classifying inputs $x$ from a large input space $X$. There is some underlying function $f: X \rightarrow…
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How to measure well-being without using an extensive questionnaire?
I'm trying to create an iPhone app for music therapy (or other kinds of experimental therapy). Such app would help a music therapist keep track of sessions and evaluate progress. One of the issues that I'm facing is evaluating the effects of…
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How can prolonged stress lead to a sustained reduction in cognitive functioning?
Background: Ten years ago or so I went through a traumatic period which resulted in a lot of stress and anxiety. I initially assumed there was some depression but cognition and short term memory was gradually affected such that I had serious…
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What is the name of a test presenting words in different colors?
What's the name of this psychological test where you.
Read and pronounce words in three colors (red, blue, green). - Words and colors match. - Say word and color (which are the same).
As above - Words and color now do not match. Say the color. - If…
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How accurate is this explanation of memory?
I'm no cognitive scientist, and this video I'm about to cite is certainly not claiming to be a good cog sci resource, but I have done some studying up on neurology and some of the parts of this guy's (detailed) explanation of how memory works seems…
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Differential equations in psychology
I am wondering (and searching with no success) if there are any examples of differential equations in psychology?
I mean, no tutorial explaining what is differenetial equations or even partial differential equations, but a research (like in…
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Are there shapes defined by 3 (or more) generative parameters whose mapping to psychological similarity space is known?
I am trying to generate 4 shapes that are equidistant in psychological similarity space - meaning that they are all equally discriminable from one another - which differ in 3 parameters, such that those parameters have a known mapping between…
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Do all types of synapses in the brain change based on spike-timing-dependent plasticity?
Synapses likely change their strengths based on a form of spike-timing-dependent plasticity. Is this true for all types of synapses in all parts of the human brain? I wonder if there are also synapses with hard-wired connectivity, i.e. that do not…
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Is an autistic person's brain different from a non-autistic one?
Are there any differences between the autistic person's brain and the non-autistic one?
To be more specific, are there any differences in brain structure or brain activity, that can be used to distinguish between autistic and non-autistic person by…
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What causes emotions?
I have absolutely no knowledge of psychology. But I am wondering what causes emotions in human? Emotions such as happiness, sadness, love, hate etc. Is there some sort of hormones responsible for this? How does brain understands this?
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Do you know any good tutorial on designing EEG experiments with PsychoPy?
I'm trying to find good documentation on using PsychoPy to measure Event-Related Potentials. In particular, I want to measure and compare the amplitude of the N170, a face-sensitive ERP, when presenting neutral versus threatening faces.
I would be…
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What correlation research has been done on MBTI vs Big5?
Big5 is probably the most used personality model in research, while MBTI has not gained status of being scientifically supported.
What exact research has been done on correlating the two models?
Could someone give me links to full research reports…
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Why do people love nature?
I wonder why we feel happy and comfortable when seeing the view of trees, green plants and flowers. Why do we admire sea, waves, fishes inside pure water and sun set? why do we love seeing the view of sky, moon and stars? Why people love nature even…
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Is there a neural network model of Pavlovian Learning?
I am trying to find a computer simulation of Pavlovian learning. i.e. an action such as salivation in response to a stimulus such as a bell ringing.
Most neural network models I've seen seem to be more about trying to recognise things such as…
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How do I choose what I think?
Where do my thoughts come from? What allows me to choose them at all? Regardless of whether free will is an illusion or not, what makes a thought happen? (This is a mix of a philosophical question and a biological one)
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