The Bayesian way to relate rhythm perception and production

Contains fulltext : 55443.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)Measurement of the perception and production of simple rhythmic patterns have been shown not to be in line in some cases. In this study it is demonstrated that a Bayesian approach provides a new way of understanding this difference, by formalizing the perceptual competition between mental representations and assuming possible nonuniform a priori probabilities of the rhythmic categories. Thus we can relate the two kinds of information and predict perception data from production data. In this approach, the contrast between rhythm perception and production data, taken from different studies in the literature, was shown almost to disappear, assembling independent prior probabilities from counts of patterns in corpora of musical scores, or from a theoretical measure of rhythmic complexity. The success of this Bayesian formalization may be interpreted as an optimal adaptation of our perceptual system to the environment in which the produced rhythms occur.10 p

Improving the commanders' speed and agility in decision-making

In het project "Decision Support Tools" zijn twee typen beslisondersteuningsconcepten ontwikkeld en getest, een Simulatie tool (CFSim) en een Critical Thinking Tool (CTT). Dit artikel beschrijft de ontwikkeling van de twee concepten, het experiment en de resultaten van het experiment

Biodiversity conservation in climate change driven transient communities

Species responding differently to climate change form ‘transient communities’, communities with constantly changing species composition due to colonization and extinction events. Our goal is to disentangle the mechanisms of response to climate change for terrestrial species in these transient communities and explore the consequences for biodiversity conservation. We review spatial escape and local adaptation of species dealing with climate change from evolutionary and ecological perspectives. From these we derive species vulnerability and management options to mitigate effects of climate change. From the perspective of transient communities, conservation management should scale up static single species approaches and focus on community dynamics and species interdependency, while considering species vulnerability and their importance for the community. Spatially explicit and frequent monitoring is vital for assessing the change in communities and distribution of species. We review management options such as: increasing connectivity and landscape resilience, assisted colonization, and species protection priority in the context of transient communities