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From the perceptron to the cerebellum
Nicolas Brunel, Vincent Hakim, Jean-Pierre Nadal
The perceptron has served as a prototypical neuronal learning machine in the physics community interested in neural networks and artificial intelligence, which included Gérard Toul…
Income Inequalities Increase with City Size: Evidence from French Data
Nirbhay Patil, Jean-Pierre Nadal, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud
We analyse the income distributions of cities in France and the scaling of the income of different deciles as a function of the population. We find a significant difference in the…
Categorical Perception: A Groundwork for Deep Learning
Laurent Bonnasse-Gahot, Jean-Pierre Nadal
A well-known perceptual consequence of categorization in humans and other animals, called categorical perception, is notably characterized by a within-category compression and a be…
Perceptual decision making: Biases in post-error reaction times explained by attractor network dynamics
Kevin Berlemont, Jean-Pierre Nadal
Perceptual decision making is the subject of many experimental and theoretical studies. Whereas most modeling analysis are based on statistical processes of accumulation of evidenc…
Frequency patterns of semantic change: Corpus-based evidence of a near-critical dynamics in language change
Quentin Feltgen, Benjamin Fagard, Jean-Pierre Nadal
It is generally believed that, when a linguistic item acquires a new meaning, its overall frequency of use in the language rises with time with an S-shaped growth curve. Yet, this…
Epidemiological modeling of the 2005 French riots: a spreading wave and the role of contagion
Laurent Bonnasse-Gahot, Henri Berestycki, Marie-Aude Depuiset +4
As a large-scale instance of dramatic collective behaviour, the 2005 French riots started in a poor suburb of Paris, then spread in all of France, lasting about three weeks. Remark…