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Limits of end-state planning
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Strange Quarks Nuggets in Space: Charges in Seven Settings
We have computed the charge that develops on an SQN in space as a result of
balance between the rates of ionization by ambient gammas and capture of
ambient electrons. We have also computed the times for achieving that
equilibrium and binding energy of the least bound SQN electrons. We have done
this for seven different settings. We sketch the calculations here and give
their results in the Figure and Table II; details are in the Physical Review
D.79.023513 (2009).Comment: Six pages, one figure. To appear in proceedings of the 2008 UCLA
coference on dark matter and dark energ
The -value Equation and Wigner Distributions in Noncommutative Heisenberg algebras
We consider the quantum mechanical equivalence of the Seiberg-Witten map in
the context of the Weyl-Wigner-Groenewold-Moyal phase-space formalism in order
to construct a quantum mechanics over noncommutative Heisenberg algebras. The
formalism is then applied to the exactly soluble Landau and harmonic oscillator
problems in the 2-dimensional noncommutative phase-space plane, in order to
derive their correct energy spectra and corresponding Wigner distributions. We
compare our results with others that have previously appeared in the
literature.Comment: 19 page
A priming method for investigating the selection of motor responses
We describe a priming method for investigating the mechanisms underlying the selection of motor responses. The empirical question addressed with the method is how the choice reaction time for a response depends on its relationship to a response that the subject was primed to perform. We explore the method in a study of manual response selection where we investigate the effects of requiring that two possible responses use the same finger or hand. A requirement of the method -- that subjects get ready to perform primed responses only -- is not met in some conditions of the experiment. When the two possible responses are made with different hands, it appears that multiple response preparation occurs prior to detection of the reaction signal, whereas when the two possible responses are made with different fingers of the same hand it appears that advance preparation is limited to a single response. This finding implies that subjects engage in different kinds of response preparation depending on the relationship between the alternative possible responses. We discuss the implications of this hypothesis for the priming method introduced here as well as for theories of response selection generally.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/23848/1/0000087.pd
Inference with interference between units in an fMRI experiment of motor inhibition
An experimental unit is an opportunity to randomly apply or withhold a
treatment. There is interference between units if the application of the
treatment to one unit may also affect other units. In cognitive neuroscience, a
common form of experiment presents a sequence of stimuli or requests for
cognitive activity at random to each experimental subject and measures
biological aspects of brain activity that follow these requests. Each subject
is then many experimental units, and interference between units within an
experimental subject is likely, in part because the stimuli follow one another
quickly and in part because human subjects learn or become experienced or
primed or bored as the experiment proceeds. We use a recent fMRI experiment
concerned with the inhibition of motor activity to illustrate and further
develop recently proposed methodology for inference in the presence of
interference. A simulation evaluates the power of competing procedures.Comment: Published by Journal of the American Statistical Association at
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01621459.2012.655954 . R package
cin (Causal Inference for Neuroscience) implementing the proposed method is
freely available on CRAN at https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ci
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