On partial contraction analysis for coupled nonlinear oscillators

W Wang, JJE Slotine - Biological cybernetics, 2005 - Springer
We describe a simple yet general method to analyze networks of coupled identical nonlinear
oscillators and study applications to fast synchronization, locomotion, and schooling …

The topological approach to perceptual organization

L Chen - Visual Cognition, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
To address the fundamental question of “what are the primitives of visual perception”, a
theory of topological structure and functional hierarchy in visual perception has been …

A study of synchronization and group cooperation using partial contraction theory

JJE Slotine, W Wang - Cooperative Control: A Post-Workshop Volume …, 2005 - Springer
Synchronization, collective behavior, and group cooperation have been the object of
extensive recent research. A fundamental understanding of aggregate motions in the natural …

A powerful theory and a paradox: Ecological psychologists after Barker

MM Scott - Environment and behavior, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
Roger Barker, influenced by Lewin, developed a powerful theory in psychology, behavior
setting theory. Paradoxically, this theory is still not widely known or understood in …

Social actions, gestalt coherence, and designations of disability: Lessons from and about autism

DW Maynard - Social Problems, 2005 - academic.oup.com
This article has three main points:(1)“gestalt objects” are not just perceptual chimera, but are
a feature of everyday talk and social action;(2) a disability such as autism can be treated in …

The effect of different types of perceptual manipulations on the dimensionality of automatically generated figural matrices

M Arendasy, M Sommer - Intelligence, 2005 - Elsevier
Two pilot studies (n1= 155, n2= 451) are presented in this article, which were carried out
within the development of an item generator for the automatic generation of figural matrices …

Spatial principles in control of focus in reasoning with mental representations, images, and diagrams

D Engel, S Bertel, T Barkowsky - … , Germany, October 11-13, 2004, Revised …, 2005 - Springer
The effective control of attentional focus is an essential requirement in mental reasoning
based on mental models and men tal images, as well as in the interaction with external …

[PDF][PDF] Document image analysis by probabilistic network and circuit diagram extraction

A Barta, I Vajk - Informatica, 2005 - informatica.si
Document Image Analysis by Probabilistic Network and Circuit Diagram Extraction Page 1
Informatica 29 (2005) 291–301 291 Document Image Analysis by Probabilistic Network and …

Recognizing variable spatial environments--The theory of cognitive prism

T Dong - 2005 - media.suub.uni-bremen.de
Objects are not statically located in environments. Therefore, a snapshot view of an
environment at one moment may be quite different from its snapshot at other moments …

Contraction and partial contraction: a study of synchronization in nonlinear networks

W Wang - 2005 - dspace.mit.edu
This thesis focuses on the study of collective dynamic behaviors, especially the spontaneous
synchronization behavior, of nonlinear networked systems. We derives a body of new …