We will review some of the major results in random graphs and some of the more challenging open problems. We will cover algorithmic and structural questions. We will touch on newer models, including those related to the WWW.

Random graphs

http://apsychoserver.psychofizz.psych.arizona.edu/JJBAReprints/PSYC501A/Readings/Polich_2007_Clin_Neurophys_Review_P3s.pdf

Updating P300: An Integrative Theory of P3a and P3b

A typology of service organizations is presented and a conceptual framework is advanced for exploring the impact of physical surroundings on the behaviors of both customers and employees. The abili...

Servicescapes: The Impact of Physical Surroundings on Customers and Employees:

Confirmation bias, as the term is typically used in the psychological literature, connotes the seeking or interpreting of evidence in ways that are partial to existing beliefs, expectations, or a h...

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Confirmation Bias: A Ubiquitous Phenomenon in Many Guises:

At the heart of emotion, mood, and any other emotionally charged event are states experienced as simply feeling good or bad, energized or enervated. These states--called core affect--influence reflexes, perception, cognition, and behavior and are influenced by many causes internal and external, but people have no direct access to these causal connections. Core affect can therefore be experienced as free-floating (mood) or can be attributed to some cause (and thereby begin an emotional episode). These basic processes spawn a broad framework that includes perception of the core-affect-altering properties of stimuli, motives, empathy, emotional meta-experience, and affect versus emotion regulation; it accounts for prototypical emotional episodes, such as fear and anger, as core affect attributed to something plus various nonemotional processes.

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Core Affect and the Psychological Construction of Emotion

http://fisio.icb.usp.br:4882/posgraduacao/disciplinas/bmb5718/2004/Ref71.pdf

Synchronous neural oscillations and cognitive processes.

Stochastic resonance and sensory information processing: a tutorial and review of application

Although typically assumed to degrade performance, random fluctuations, or noise, can sometimes improve information processing in non-linear systems One such form of 'stochastic facilitation', stochastic resonance, has been observed to enhance processing both in theoretical models of neural systems and in experimental neuroscience However, the two approaches have yet to be fully reconciled Understanding the diverse roles of noise in neural computation will require the design of experiments based on new theory and models, into which biologically appropriate experimental detail feeds back at various levels of abstraction

The benefits of noise in neural systems: bridging theory and experiment

Basic Principles of Sensation and Perception Lecture/Discussion Topics: Sensation Versus Perception (p. 4) Top-Down Processing (p. 5) “Thin-Slicing” (p. 6) Classroom Exercises: A Scale to Assess Sensory-Processing Sensitivity (p. 6) UPDATED Human Senses Demonstration Kits (p. 6) UPDATED Classroom Exercises/Student Projects: The Wundt-Jastrow Illusion (p. 4) LaunchPad Video: The Man Who Cannot Recognize Faces*

Sensation and Perception

A set of 105 commonly used adjectives descriptive of the affective quality of molar physical environments was developed and factor analyzed (based on 323 subjects' ratings, each of a different environment). Two, independent, bipolar factors of affective quality-pleasing and arousing quality-were obtained and shown to correlate highly with subjects' affective reactions of pleasure and arousal to the environments. The pleasing and- arousing quality dimensions were hypothesized to summarize the emotive capacity attributed to environments and to adequately define the numerous affective descriptors commonly used: peaceful, festive, hectic, disgusting, boring, and the like. They were also offered as partial interpretations of the semantic differential factors of evaluation and activity, respectively.

Lawrence M. Ward

Papers

Synchronous neural oscillations and cognitive processes.

Stochastic resonance and sensory information processing: a tutorial and review of application

The benefits of noise in neural systems: bridging theory and experiment

Sensation and Perception

Affective Quality Attributed to Environments: A Factor Analytic Study