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Lexical Alignment is Pervasive Across Contexts in Non‐WEIRD Adult–Child Interactions

Abstract Lexical alignment, a communication phenomenon where conversational partners adapt their word choices to become more similar, plays an important role in the development of language and social communication skills. While this has been studied extensively in the conversations of preschool-aged children and their parents in Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) communities, research […]

Published on March 15, 2024

A scoping review of mathematical models covering Alzheimer’s disease progression

Alzheimer’s disease is a complex, multi-factorial, and multi-parametric neurodegenerative etiology. Mathematical models can help understand such a complex problem by providing a way to explore and conceptualize principles, merging biological knowledge with experimental data into a model amenable to simulation and external validation, all without the need for extensive clinical trials. We performed a scoping […]

Published on March 14, 2024

The connectivity degree controls the difficulty in reservoir design of random boolean networks

Reservoir Computing (RC) is a paradigm in artificial intelligence where a recurrent neural network (RNN) is used to process temporal data, leveraging the inherent dynamical properties of the reservoir to perform complex computations. In the realm of RC, the excitatory-inhibitory balance b has been shown to be pivotal for driving the dynamics and performance of […]

Published on March 14, 2024