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Individual Differences in Learning Abilities Impact Structure Addition: Better Learners Create More Structured Languages

Abstract Over the last decade, iterated learning studies have provided compelling evidence for the claim that linguistic structure can emerge from non‐structured input, through the process of transmission. However, it is unclear whether individuals differ in their tendency to add structure, an issue with implications for understanding who are the agents of change. Here, we […]

Published on August 2, 2020

Necessary Conditions for Reliable Propagation of Slowly Time-Varying Firing Rate

Reliable propagation of slow-modulations of the firing rate across multiple layers of a feedforward network (FFN) has proven difficult to capture in spiking neural models. In this paper, we explore necessary conditions for reliable and stable propagation of time-varying asynchronous spikes whose instantaneous rate of changes—in fairly short time windows [20–100] msec—represents information of slow […]

Published on July 30, 2020