Some SINBAD Papers

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• Neocortical layer 4 as a pluripotent function linearizer
  (Favorov & Kursun, 2011; Journal of Neurophysiology 105: 1342-1360)
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• SINBAD automation of scientific discovery: from factor analysis to theory synthesis
  (Kursun & Favorov, 2004; Natural Computing 3(2):207-233)
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• SINBAD: A neocortical mechanism for discovering environmental variables and regularities hidden in sensory input
  (Favorov & Ryder, 2004; Biological Cybernetics 90:191-202)
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• SINBAD Neurosemantics: A theory of mental representation
  (Ryder, 2004; Mind & Language 19(2):211-240)
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• The new associationism: a neural explanation for the predictive powers of cerebral cortex
  (Ryder & Favorov, 2001)
  Brain and Mind 2(2):161-194
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• The cortical pyramidal cell as a set of interacting error backpropagating dendrites: A mechanism for discovering nature's order
  (Favorov, Ryder, Hester, Kelly, & Tommerdahl)
  In Theories of the Cerebral Cortex, Robert Hecht-Nielsen and Thomas McKenna (eds.), Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2003.
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• On thinking of kinds: a neuroscientific perspective
  (Ryder)
  Forthcoming in New Essays in Teleosemantics, Graham Macdonald and David Papineau (eds.), Oxford University Press.
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• Single-frame super-resolution by inference from learned features
  (Kursun & Favorov)
  Istanbul University Journal of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, vol. 3(1), pp. 673-681
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• Empiricist word learning
  (Ryder & Favorov; Commentary on Paul Bloom's How Children Learn the Meanings of Words)
  Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24(6), 2001.
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