2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2018
This paper presents a data-driven method to extract spatiotemporal dynamics of mismatch negativit... more This paper presents a data-driven method to extract spatiotemporal dynamics of mismatch negativity in a marmoset monkey. In this, we treat electrocorticographic (ECoG) data as observables of a skew-product dynamical system and extract the patterns of the neural dynamics from the point of view of the operator-theoretic formulation of ergodic theory. We successfully extract time-separable frequencies without bandpass filtering. Second, we examine in more detail the frequency band most commonly associated with MMN-beta-band activity (13-20 Hz) and proceed to cross-validate our results with those obtained by Komatsu, Takaura, and Fuji (2015). Having ensured the compatibility and statistical significance of the results, we then examine the spatiotemporal dynamics, and we find that MMN is in part driven by a synchronization in brain response following a deviation in the auditory stimuli.
Individual studies of health psychology are samples taken in particular places at particular time... more Individual studies of health psychology are samples taken in particular places at particular times. The results of such studies manifest multiple processes, including those associated with individual, sample, intervention, and study design characteristics. Although extant meta-analyses of health phenomena have routinely considered these factors to explain heterogeneity, they have tended to neglect the environments where studies are conducted, which is ironic, as health phenomena cluster in space and times (e.g., epidemics). The settings in which study participants live, work, and recreate can be characterised by such environmental factors such as disease, weather, local and broad economic trends, the level of stigmatisation of minority groups, and allostatic load due to all causes. We introduce spatiotemporal meta-analysis, designed to address heterogeneity in study environments. We list potential challenges in developing spatiotemporal meta-analyses, and discuss future directions f...
Previous research indicates that political conservatism is associated with epistemic needs for st... more Previous research indicates that political conservatism is associated with epistemic needs for structure and certainty (Jost et al., 2003) and that nouns elicit clearer and more definite perceptions of reality than other parts of speech (Carnaghi et al., 2008). We therefore hypothesized that conservatives would exhibit preferences for nouns (vs. verbs and adjectives), insofar as nouns are better suited to satisfy epistemic needs. In Study 1, we observed that social conservatism was associated with noun preferences in Polish and that personal need for structure accounted for the association between ideology and grammatical preferences. In Study 2, conducted in Arabic, social conservatism was associated with a preference for the use of nominal sentences (composed of nouns only) over verbal sentences (which included verbs and adjectives). In Study 3, we found that more conservative U.S. presidents used greater proportions of nouns in major speeches, and this effect was related to integrative complexity. We discuss the possibility that conservative ideology is linked to grammatical preferences that foster feelings of stability and predictability.
2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2018
This paper presents a data-driven method to extract spatiotemporal dynamics of mismatch negativit... more This paper presents a data-driven method to extract spatiotemporal dynamics of mismatch negativity in a marmoset monkey. In this, we treat electrocorticographic (ECoG) data as observables of a skew-product dynamical system and extract the patterns of the neural dynamics from the point of view of the operator-theoretic formulation of ergodic theory. We successfully extract time-separable frequencies without bandpass filtering. Second, we examine in more detail the frequency band most commonly associated with MMN-beta-band activity (13-20 Hz) and proceed to cross-validate our results with those obtained by Komatsu, Takaura, and Fuji (2015). Having ensured the compatibility and statistical significance of the results, we then examine the spatiotemporal dynamics, and we find that MMN is in part driven by a synchronization in brain response following a deviation in the auditory stimuli.
Individual studies of health psychology are samples taken in particular places at particular time... more Individual studies of health psychology are samples taken in particular places at particular times. The results of such studies manifest multiple processes, including those associated with individual, sample, intervention, and study design characteristics. Although extant meta-analyses of health phenomena have routinely considered these factors to explain heterogeneity, they have tended to neglect the environments where studies are conducted, which is ironic, as health phenomena cluster in space and times (e.g., epidemics). The settings in which study participants live, work, and recreate can be characterised by such environmental factors such as disease, weather, local and broad economic trends, the level of stigmatisation of minority groups, and allostatic load due to all causes. We introduce spatiotemporal meta-analysis, designed to address heterogeneity in study environments. We list potential challenges in developing spatiotemporal meta-analyses, and discuss future directions f...
Previous research indicates that political conservatism is associated with epistemic needs for st... more Previous research indicates that political conservatism is associated with epistemic needs for structure and certainty (Jost et al., 2003) and that nouns elicit clearer and more definite perceptions of reality than other parts of speech (Carnaghi et al., 2008). We therefore hypothesized that conservatives would exhibit preferences for nouns (vs. verbs and adjectives), insofar as nouns are better suited to satisfy epistemic needs. In Study 1, we observed that social conservatism was associated with noun preferences in Polish and that personal need for structure accounted for the association between ideology and grammatical preferences. In Study 2, conducted in Arabic, social conservatism was associated with a preference for the use of nominal sentences (composed of nouns only) over verbal sentences (which included verbs and adjectives). In Study 3, we found that more conservative U.S. presidents used greater proportions of nouns in major speeches, and this effect was related to integrative complexity. We discuss the possibility that conservative ideology is linked to grammatical preferences that foster feelings of stability and predictability.
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