Synaptic plasticity, the activity-dependent change in neuronal connection strength, has long been considered an important component of learning and memory. Computational and engineering work corroborate the power of learning through the directed adjustment of connection weights. Here we review the fundamental elements of four broadly categorized fo...
Published in Social cognitive and affective neuroscience
The basal ganglia (BG) and the cerebellum historically have been relegated to a functional role in producing or modulating motor output. Recent research, however, has emphasized the importance of these subcortical structures in multiple functional domains, including affective processes such as emotion recognition, subjective feeling elicitation and...
The signaling pathway of the microtubule-associated protein kinase or extracellular regulated kinase (MAPK/ERK) is a common mechanism of extracellular information transduction from extracellular stimuli to the intracellular space. The transduction of information leads to changes in the ongoing metabolic pathways and the modification of gene express...
Purpose: During manual wheelchair (MWC) skill acquisition, users adapt their propulsion technique through changes in biomechanical parameters. This evolution is assumed to be driven towards a more efficient behavior. However, when no specific training protocol is provided to users, little is known about how they spontaneously adapt during overgroun...
Anomaly detection refers to the problem of identifying abnormal behaviour within a set of measurements. In many cases, one has some statistical model for normal data, and wishes to identify whether new data fit the model or not. However, in others, while there are normal data to learn from, there is no statistical model for this data, and there is ...
In this thesis, a new data-driven finite element is developed, which is referred to as a neuromorphic element (designated as NmT2). Its goal is to reduce the computational expense of FEA models with- out compromising solution accuracy by embedding a neural network, trained on an element level. The neural network is developed such that the tradition...
This paper proposes a three-phase metaheuristic-based approach for induction machine bearing failure detection and diagnosis. It consists of extracting and processing different failure types features to set up a knowledge base, which contains different failure types. The first phase consists in pre-processing the measured signals by aggregating the...
Published in The British journal of educational psychology
Research indicates that implicit theories of intelligence, specifically growth mindset, are conducive to students' academic achievement and engagement. While much research has focused on the role of teachers and parents, it is unclear how implicit theories of intelligence operate in the peer context. This study examined the effects of peers' mindse...
Disertační práce se zabývá dvěma tématy, které spolu úzce souvisejí. Tomu odpovídá rozdělení práce na dvě části. V první části se věnuji široké problematice základů architektonického navrhování. Rozebírám je na elementy: přírodní zákonitosti architektury, komponenty návrhu samotného, proces tvorby. Ve druhé části hledám příčiny neschopnosti dospělé...
Although early childhood education is crucial for development, it is considered less important than other educational stages. For this reason, we sought to understand teachers&rsquo / perceptions about the effects of educational habits on 3&ndash / 6 year old children&rsquo / s learning, in addition to their engagement and level of commitment to ma...
