Push-pull receptive field organization and synaptic depression: Mechanisms for reliably encoding naturalistic stimuli in V1 by Jens eKremkow, Jens eKremkow, Jens eKremkow, Jens eKremkow, Laurent U Perrinet, Cyril eMonier, Jose-Manuel eAlonso, Ad eAertsen, Ad eAertsen, Yves eFregnac, Guillaume S Masson

“…Thus, the combination of feedforward-like inhibition with fast thalamo-cortical synaptic depression by simple cells receiving a direct structured input from thalamus composes a generic computational mechanism for generating a sparse and reliable encoding of natural sensory events.…”
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Calibration of Imaging Sensor and Fiber Optic Taper-Caused Distortion in an X-Ray Intensified CMOS Camera by Haoting Liu, Shaohua Yang, Chang Guo, Jiacheng Li, Ming Yan, Jinhui Lan

“…The RANdom SAmple Consensus (RANSC) computation mechanism is used to improve the calibration precision further. …”
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Depressive symptoms are associated with blunted reward learning in social contexts. by Lou Safra, Coralie Chevallier, Stefano Palminteri

“…To conclude, our results shed light on the cognitive and computational mechanisms underlying the interaction between social cognition, reward learning and decision-making in depressive disorders.…”
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Alloy*: a general-purpose higher-order relational constraint solver by Milicevic, Aleksandar, Near, Joseph P, Kang, Eunsuk, Jackson, Daniel

“…The last decade has seen a dramatic growth in the use of constraint solvers as a computational mechanism, not only for analysis of software, but also at runtime. …”
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A computational view on the nature of reward and value in anhedonia by Huys, QJM, Browning, M

“…Working within the framework of reinforcement learning, we examine two potential computational mechanisms that could give rise to anhedonic phenomena. …”

Numerical evaluation of contemporary excavator bucket designs using finite element analysis by Mughal, Khurram Hameed, Bugvi, Salman Abubakar, Qureshi, Muhammad Asif Mahmood, Khan, Muhammad Aamir, Hayat, Khazar

“…Excavator bucket with least values of stress and deformations, but largest factor of safety, was identified through numerical computations. Mechanical performance of ornamental buckets having quarter circular curvature with 6 blade teeth was observed to be better as compared to designs having single blade strip or 5 blade teeth. …”
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Integrated mechanical computing for autonomous soft machines by Junghwan Byun, Aniket Pal, Jongkuk Ko, Metin Sitti

“…The developed integrated mechanical computing systems are shown to receive, transmit and compute mechanical information to actuate intelligent soft machine prototypes in a seamless and integrated manner. …”
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Cognitive control in majority search: A computational modeling approach by Hongbin eWang, Hongbin eWang, Xun eLiu, Xun eLiu, Jin eFan

“…Despite the importance of cognitive control in many cognitive tasks involving uncertainty, the computational mechanisms of cognitive control in response to uncertainty remain unclear. …”
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A large scale simulation of floe-ice fractures and validation against full-scale scenario by Wenjun Lu, Hans-Martin Heyn, Raed Lubbad, Sveinung Løset

“…This is mainly because the effects of crack propagation, crack branching, multi fracturing modes and eventual fragmentation within a solid material are still questions to be answered by the on-going research in the Computational Mechanic community. In order to simulate the fracturing of ice floes with arbitrary geometries and confinement; and also to simulate the fracturing events at such a large scale yet with sufficient efficiency, we propose a semi-analytical/empirical and semi-numerical approach; but with focus on the global splitting failure mode in this paper. …”
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Computational analysis of speed-accuracy tradeoff by Marcin Penconek

“…In this paper, I investigated alternative computational mechanisms of SAT and showed that the threshold hypothesis was qualitatively consistent with the behavioral data, but the gain modulation hypothesis was not. …”
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Intracerebral mechanisms explaining the impact of incidental feedback on mood state and risky choice by Romane Cecchi, Fabien Vinckier, Jiri Hammer, Petr Marusic, Anca Nica, Sylvain Rheims, Agnès Trebuchon, Emmanuel J Barbeau, Marie Denuelle, Louis Maillard, Lorella Minotti, Philippe Kahane, Mathias Pessiglione, Julien Bastin

“…Here, we investigated the neuro-computational mechanisms through which mood fluctuations may bias human choice behavior. …”
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Asymmetrical Forces Dictate the Distribution and Morphology of Platelets in Blood Clots by Tatiana A. Kovalenko, Marie-Noelle Giraud, Anita Eckly, Anne-Sophie Ribba, Fabienne Proamer, Sandrine Fraboulet, Nadezhda A. Podoplelova, Jeremy Valentin, Mikhail A. Panteleev, Carmen Gonelle-Gispert, Stéphane Cook, Laurence Lafanechère, Anastasia N. Sveshnikova, Karin Sadoul

“…We analyzed platelet distributions in intracoronary thrombi and observed that platelets and fibrin co-accumulate in the periphery of retracting clots in vivo. A computational mechanical model suggests that asymmetric forces are responsible for a different contractile behavior of platelets in the periphery versus the clot center, which in turn leads to an uneven distribution of platelets and fibrin fibers within the clot. …”
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Numerical Simulation and Deformation Behavior of a Ti/Steel Clad Plate during the Rolling Process by Lirong Sun, Jingguo Ding, Jiqing Zhang, He Li, Guodong Wang

“…In this paper, an analytical computational mechanical model of a metal plate was established by the classical elastic mechanics method, and the relationship between uneven thickness extension and warpage was obtained. …”
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Relationships between cognitive biases, decision-making, and delusions by Julia M. Sheffield, Ryan Smith, Praveen Suthaharan, Pantelis Leptourgos, Philip R. Corlett

“…Additionally, the underlying computational mechanisms require further investigation. To investigate these questions, task and self-report data were collected in 88 individuals (46 healthy controls, 42 schizophrenia-spectrum) and included measures of cognitive biases and behavior on probabilistic reversal learning and explore/exploit tasks. …”
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Intrinsic neural timescales mediate the cognitive bias of self – temporal integration as key mechanism by Angelika Wolman, Yasir Çatal, Annemarie Wolff, Soren Wainio-Theberge, Andrea Scalabrini, Abdessadek El Ahmadi, Georg Northoff

“…What are the behavioral, neural, and computational mechanisms of such cognitive bias? Addressing this yet unresolved question, we here investigate whether the cognitive bias is related to temporal integration and segregation as mediated by the brain's Intrinsic neural timescales (INT). …”
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Prediction of composite microstructure stress-strain curves using convolutional neural networks by Charles Yang, Youngsoo Kim, Seunghwa Ryu, Grace X. Gu

“…Keywords: Machine learning, Convolutional neural networks, Mechanical properties, Microstructure, Computational mechanics…”
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Mechanisms Underlying Dopamine-Induced Risky Choice in Parkinson’s Disease With and Without Depression (History) by Monique H. M. Timmer, Guillaume Sescousse, Rianne A. J. Esselink, Payam Piray, Roshan Cools

“…Here we characterize the computational mechanisms that contribute to dopamine-induced changes in risky choice in PD patients with and without a depression (history). …”
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From birdsong to human speech recognition: bayesian inference on a hierarchy of nonlinear dynamical systems. by Izzet B Yildiz, Katharina von Kriegstein, Stefan J Kiebel

“…Our knowledge about the computational mechanisms underlying human learning and recognition of sound sequences, especially speech, is still very limited. …”
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Screening a Panel of Topical Ophthalmic Medications against MMP-2 and MMP-9 to Investigate Their Potential in Keratoconus Management by Amany Belal, Mohamed A. Elanany, Eman Y. Santali, Ahmed A. Al-Karmalawy, Moustafa O. Aboelez, Ali H. Amin, Magda H. Abdellattif, Ahmed B. M. Mehany, Hazem Elkady

“…In this study, thirty-two FDA-approved ophthalmic drugs were exposed to virtual screening using docking studies against both the MMP-2 and MMP-9 proteins to find the most promising inhibitors as a proposed computational mechanism to treat keratoconus. Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are zinc-dependent proteases, and MMP inhibitors (MMPIs) are usually designed to interact with zinc ion in the catalytic (CAT) domain, thus interfering with enzymatic activity. …”
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Minimalist Social-Affective Value for Use in Joint Action: A Neural-Computational Hypothesis by Robert J Lowe, Robert J Lowe, Alexander Almer, Gustaf Lindblad, Pierre Gander, John Michael, Cordula Vesper

“…In this article, we put forward a hypothesis for the existence of a neural-computational mechanism of affective valuation that may be critically exploited in Joint Action. …”
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