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most citedVerbal Perception and the Word Length Effect

2 citations · 4 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

q-bio.NC2024

"Bayesian anchoring" and the fourfold pattern of risk attitudes

Francesco Fumarola, Lukasz Kusmierz, Ronald B. Dekker

Experiments on decision making under uncertainty are known to display a classical pattern of risk aversion and risk seeking referred to as "fourfold pattern" (or "reflection effect…

q-bio.NC2022

Multi-tasking via baseline control in recurrent neural networks

Shun Ogawa, Francesco Fumarola, Luca Mazzucato

Changes in an animal's behavioral state, such as arousal and movements, induce {complex modulations of the baseline input currents to sensory areas, eliciting sensory modality-spec…

q-bio.NC2021

Mechanisms for spontaneous symmetry breaking in developing visual cortex

Francesco Fumarola, Bettina Hein, Kenneth D. Miller

For the brain to recognize local orientations within images, neurons must spontaneously break the translation and rotation symmetry of their response functions -- an archetypal exa…

q-bio.NC2016

Hierarchical searching in episodic memory

Francesco Fumarola

An analysis of free-recall datasets from two independent experiments allows to identify two anomalous instances of non-monotonicity in free recall: a maximum in the dependence of t…

q-bio.NC2016

The Role of Word Length in Semantic Topology

Francesco Fumarola

A topological argument is presented concering the structure of semantic space, based on the negative correlation between polysemy and word length. The resulting graph structure is…

q-bio.NC2016

A theory of interpretive clustering in free recall

Francesco Fumarola

A stochastic model of short-term verbal memory is proposed, in which the psychological state of the subject is encoded as the instantaneous position of a particle diffusing over a…