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 Library turns digital signal controllers to speech: News from Microchip Technology
Many design engineers are seeking to add speech compression to their bandwidth- or memory-constrained applications, but have opted for lower compression methodologies to avoid a stiff per-unit royalty for the intellectual property.
The library permits the compressed speech data to be stored in on-chip memory (Flash, EEPROM or RAM) or to an external Flash memory.
The encoder requires 19MIPS (worst case), 33Kbyte of program memory and 6.2Kbyte of RAM.
www.electronicstalk.com /news/ari/ari192.html   (726 words)

  
 Application Development Guide --Core Components
The definition of the user client memory management functions, and any memory allocated by IDL encoding services using the client memory allocator, must not be modified between operations for which the same encoding handle is used.
Encoding and decoding functions are just like marshalling and unmarshalling, except that the data is stored locally and is not transmitted over the network; the IDL encoding services separate the data marshalling and unmarshalling functions from interaction with the RPC runtime.
The incremental encoding style requires that you provide an allocate routine which creates an empty buffer into which IDL encoding services can place encoded data, and a write routine which IDL encoding services will call when the buffer is full or all the parameters of the operation have been encoded.
www.umiacs.umd.edu /~jhu/DOCS/DCEDFS2.2/A3U2J/A3U2J128.HTM   (726 words)

  
 Week 2 The Different Forms of Memory
A functional dissociation in memory processes is found when the encoding and retrieval of a particular object in one type of memory task does not benefit or interfere with the encoding or retrieval of that same object in another type memory task.
The information stored in memory is available to many brain systems/cognitive function – including ones that were not involved during encoding.
Animals with lesions to the medial temporal lobe would perform poorly in memory tasks that required a flexible context (declarative memory) but performed normally is a series of other memory tasks such a motor skills, fear learning, classical conditioning and procedural learning.
socrates.berkeley.edu /~psy114/week1_lecture.htm   (1563 words)

  
 15980.990401&ELEMENT_SET=DECL
For purposes of simplification of explanation, the data communicated between the memory 802, processor 803 and the memory controller 805 is shown to be transmitted through the interface/control logic 834; however, it is contemplated that data may be transmitted directly between the queues and the memory 802 and processor 803.
At step 630, data transmission is initiated on a clock edge of an even clock cycle, which coincides with the issuance of the data strobes on the even clock cycle.
A bus comprising a plurality of bus lines configured to convey device configurable data from a first device to a second device during transmission of a request and further configured to convey the device configurable data from the second device to the first device during transmission of a reply to the request.
www.wipo.int /cgi-pct/guest/getbykey5?KEY=99/15980.990401&ELEMENT_SET=DECL   (8344 words)

  
 AMIDiag - Industry Standard PC Diagnostics
It is a variation of electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM) that, unlike flash memory, is erased and rewritten at the byte level, which is slower than flash memory updating.
A generic name for various kinds of DRAM that are synchronized with the clock speed that the microprocessor is optimized for.
Since the operating environment and varying conditions affect access time, this is usually given as an average.
www.amidiag.com /support/glossary.cfm   (11666 words)

  
 Biljana Stevanovski
Previous research that has purported to examine encoding into visual short-term memory has used materials that are easily verbalised and materials that are not easily verbalised.
The present experiments investigated whether there are differences in encoding into visual short-term memory for easily verbalised (e.g., alphanumeric characters) and less easily verbalised (e.g., coloured disks) materials.
Results elucidate the contributions of verbal and visual short-term memory to investigations that have purportedly examined encoding into visual short-term memory.
www.science.mcmaster.ca /~BBCS/2004/viewabstract.php?id=93&symposium=0   (199 words)

  
 The Death of Implicit Memory
Explicit memory tasks make reference to the initial encoding episode, and are associated with subjective awareness of engaging in recall.
For example, the level of performance in explicit memory tasks is strongly influenced by the depth of processing at encoding, but is not influenced by the match of the perceptual characteristics of the stimuli (e.g.
Implicit memory phenomena are distinct from explicit memory phenomena at a neural and information processing level, but there is such variety among the implicit memory phenomena that nothing holds them together in a common category.
psyche.cs.monash.edu.au /v2/psyche-2-15-willingham.html   (5705 words)

  
 Individual neurons reveal complexity of memory within the brain
For example, researchers identified 16 of the 105 neurons that significantly changed activity with different stages of memoryencoding, storage and retrieval — and found that in 13 of those, changes were observed in only one modality (auditory, six; text, four; objects, three).
For example, it may be possible to externally activate neurons related to memory encoding in order to enhance memory.
Although nerve cells that change activity during the use of memory are widely distributed in the brain, individual neurons generally respond to specific aspects of memory.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2002-01/uow-inr010302.php   (691 words)

  
 Journal of Vision - The rapid time-course of visual working memory consolidation, by Vogel, Woodman, & Luck
Performance on this memory task revealed that encoding larger memory arrays required longer amounts of uninterrupted processing time than smaller arrays to reach asymptotic levels, which supports the general proposal that consolidation is highly capacity limited.
This procedure allowed us to quantify the rate of information accrual in visual working memory.
In the present study, we sought to measure the time-course of the encoding process more directly, using a procedure in which consolidation is interrupted at various time points.
www.journalofvision.org /2/7/270   (691 words)

  
 Evidence Sets and Contextual Genetic ALgorithms
Indirect genetic encoding is not only a more biologically correct model of genetic natural selection, but it also allows the evolution of different solutions from the same descriptions, which is important for adaptation, and additionally yields tremendous genetic information compression.
Failing to recognize this emergent symbolic level, does not allow the distinction between self-organizing systems such as autocatalytic networks [Kauffman, 1993], from living systems whose genetic memory does not require larger and larger autocatalytic networks to develop more and more complicated morphologies.
The indirect encoding of solutions for a particular problem in genetic algorithms is referred to as contextual since the intermediate dynamical systems may depend on inputs other that just the genetic description, such as environmental observables.
www.c3.lanl.gov /~rocha/dissert.html   (691 words)

  
 Neuromodulation: Acetylcholine and memory consolidation - Hasselmo (ResearchIndex)
12 Encoding and retrieval of episodic memories: role of choline..
I will then describe electrophysiological data that support this concept and suggest that the two stages are linked to different stages of the sleep--wake cycle when encoding and consolidation might occur.
2 Memory and amnesia: resistance to disruption develops for ye..
citeseer.ist.psu.edu /hasselmo99neuromodulation.html   (691 words)

  
 noto_abstr_Velardi_uk.html
The relationship between semantic memory and episodic memory, and the principle of encoding specificity, imply the link, at brain level, between the space of reality, experience and language, despite the separation accounted in most linguistic studies.
The spreading activation model [Anderson 1983] is a modeling closing the gap between the two memory, and, among others, opened the door to the connectionist approach.
Inside memory theory there are categorical model of so-called semantic memory, in charge of the world knowledge of individuals, as well as the shared lexical and grammatical background.
ww2.unime.it /scef/filling/noto_abstr_Velardi_uk.html   (1055 words)

  
 08366.010621&ELEMENT_SET=DECL
Two SDMAs 416 are provided, one of them to output data to memory and one to input data from memory.
Even in the context of a ring network, in which data propagates from one device to another around a loop or ring (and is overwritten when a device desires to insert its own data), a device on a TDMA network could transmit information (such as a digital audio sample) anytime during its assigned time slice.
Several modes of data transmission are possible and the selected mode determines the number of lanes in a frame.
www.wipo.int /cgi-pct/guest/getbykey5?KEY=01/08366.010621&ELEMENT_SET=DECL   (13145 words)

  
 Chilkat Charset Encoding Convert ActiveX Component for utf-8, shift-jis, big5, euc-kr, iso-2022-jp, and many more.
Until a license is purchased, this component is limited (per method call) to a maximum of 500 bytes in memory-to-memory conversions, or 1000 bytes in file conversions.
Chilkat Charset Encoding Convert ActiveX Component for utf-8, shift-jis, big5, euc-kr, iso-2022-jp, and many more.
This ActiveX component converts text from any language encoding to any other.
www.chilkatsoft.com /ChilkatIConv.asp   (13145 words)

  
 memory
One of the most popular models of memory sees memory as a present act of consciousness, reconstructive of the past, stimulated by an analogue of an engram called the "retrieval cue." The engram is the neural network representing fragments of past experiences which have been encoded.
Not only could Penfield only elicit "memories" in about one out of every thirteen patients, he did not provide support for the claim that what was elicited was actually a memory and not a hallucination, fantasy or confabulation.
Furthermore, the Freudian model often assumes that childhood sexual abuse is usually unconsciously repressed and that psychological problems in adulthood are caused by the unconscious memory of childhood abuse.
skepdic.com /memory.html   (2918 words)

  
 Memory in Psychology
In 4 experiments, the authors explored the role of the frontal lobes (FLs) in source memory, the extent to which they may be involved in the encoding and/or retrieval of source or context, and the conditions under which the source memory deficit in older people may be reduced or eliminated.
The mathematical memory models tutorial is an introduction to some of the major psychological models of memory that have a mathematical component.
We review the idea of working memory as a short duration system in which small amounts of information are simultaneously stored and manipulated in the service of a task and that syntactic processing in sentence comprehension requires such a storage and computational system.
www.psychology.org /links/Environment_Behavior_Relationships/Memory   (1168 words)

  
 Unicode Transformation Formats
UTF-8 is a variable-length multibyte encoding which means that you cannot calculate the number of characters from the mere number of bytes and vice versa for memory allocation and that you have to allocate oversized buffers or parse and keep counters.
UTF-8 is a reasonably compact encoding: ASCII characters are not inflated, most other alphabetic characters occupy only two bytes each, no basic Unicode character needs more than three bytes and all extended Unicode characters can be expressed with four bytes so that UTF-8 is no worse than UCS-4.
But it is stateful and quite unrestricted and perhaps a bit more complicated to decode or produce than all the other encoding schemes listed here.
www.czyborra.com /utf   (1168 words)

  
 Memory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Semantic memory allows the encoding of abstract knowledge about the world, such as "Paris is the capital of France".
Declarative memory can be further sub-divided into semantic memory, which concerns facts taken independent of context; and episodic memory, which concerns information specific to a particular context, such as a time and place.
A basic and generally accepted classification of memory is based on the duration of memory retention, and identifies three distinct types of memory: sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Memory   (1568 words)

  
 UTCS Neural Nets Group Research: Episodic Memory
Inspired by Damasio's convergence-zone idea, the inputs to the memory are assumed to be represented locally in perceptual maps, and the memory encoding is a sparse random pattern in the hippocampus.
Episodic memory is the record of events that the individual experiences throughout his/her/its life.
Such a memory can be analyzed mathematically and simulated computationally, and it suggests how the hippocampal memory can have a high capacity even with sparse connectivity and a relatively small number of computational units.
nn.cs.utexas.edu /pages/research/memory.html   (359 words)

  
 Computational Memory Lab: Episodic Memory
Episodic (or autobiographical) memory is memory for events that are embedded in a temporal context.
Our latest work on age-related changes in episodic memory is discussed in Kahana, M., Rizzuto, D. and Schneider, A., 2005 and Howard, M., Wingfield, A. and Kahana, M. In addition to behavioral and theoretical analyses of episodic memory, we also explore the neurophysiology of episodic memory with both scalp and intracranial electroencephalographic (iEEG) recordings.
By including older participants, who as a group are impaired in their use of episodic memory, we aim to determine whether the aging process selectively or differentially impairs certain memory processes.
memory.psych.upenn.edu /research/research_episodic_memory.php   (714 words)

  
 Working memory definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms
Working memory is involved in the selection, initiation, and termination of information-processing functions such as encoding, storing, and retrieving data.
Working memory is a system for temporarily storing and managing the information required to carry out complex cognitive tasks such as learning, reasoning, and comprehension.
One test of working memory is memory span, the number of items, usually words or numbers, that a person can hold onto and recall.
www.medterms.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=7143   (247 words)

  
 KTH in your Pocket: Cognitive processes, working memory, memory consolidation and language
Working memory is a short-term memory of limited capacity engaged in both encoding of information to, and retrieval of information from, long-term memory.
It is shown that memory consolidation by long-term potentiation, based on repeated activations of neocortical patterns, may be guided by neuromodulated dynamics of the medial temporal lobe via short-term couplings acting as pointers.
By means of a biophysical model of working memory, it is shown that neuronal adaptivity of excitatory neurons can control several aspects of network dynamics in a coordinated way to account for the observed capacity with respect to resolution and perception of different objects.
www.kth.se /forskning/pocket/project.asp?id=3603   (247 words)

  
 Australian False Memory Association: Allegations of Childhood Abuse Repressed Memories or False Memories? ( Donald M Thomson )
Memory researchers have found it useful to conceptualise memory as comprising three stages: the encoding or perceptual stage, the retention stage, and the retrieval stage.
The inaccessibility of the memories of early trauma is explained by the concept of repressed memory.
A third circumstance under which repressed memories become accessible is when, through the effluction of time, the person has a perception of safety and the unconscious mechanism relaxes and allows the repressed memory to seep through to consciousness.
www.afma.asn.au /DonThomson1.htm   (5474 words)

  
 Psychological Science : Chapter 7: Home
The process of memory is composed of three stages: encoding, storage, and retrieval.
This enhancement of memory appears to be related to the release of glucose that accompanies the increase in epinephrine levels and the associated increase in arousal.
Researchers agree that memory is served by multiple systems; some psychologists focus on memory content as the basis for defining the different systems and others focus on the process of memory storage as the way to differentiate among systems.
www.wwnorton.com /psychsci/ch7_overview.htm   (1122 words)

  
 Universität des Saarlandes - Kognitive Gedächtnispsychologie
Implicit memory for color in object recognition: After we had observed that the probability of color encoding is maximized with multiple-colored objects, we used these objects in an implicit memory test.
Obviously, these indirect memory effects in the implicit task are based on the same memory traces that are used in the explicit memory task.
Explicit memory was influenced by color changes although color was neither intentionally encoded nor relevant for episodic recognition.
www.uni-saarland.de /fak5/excops/transfer/index.php?content=farbe   (804 words)

  
 Psychological Science : Chapter 7: Home
The process of memory is composed of three stages: encoding, storage, and retrieval.
Explicit memory involves the effortful storage and retrieval of declarative information and takes two forms: episodic memory, which is our memories of our personal experiences, and semantic memory, which is our memories of facts and information.
This enhancement of memory appears to be related to the release of glucose that accompanies the increase in epinephrine levels and the associated increase in arousal.
www.wwnorton.com /psychsci/ch7_overview.htm   (1122 words)

  
 Haberlandt 1999: Chapter 5: Memory for skills
He compared priming and explicit memory as a function of various encoding conditions, which included the no-context, context, and the generate condition.
Implicit memory is in essence unconscious, unlike explicit memory which involves conscious and deliberate recollection of knowledge.
Various studies have demonstrated a dissociation between implicit and explicit memory, and most of those studies have focused on priming, and perception and performance enhancement resulting from prior experience with a task.
www.cc.gatech.edu /~jimmyd/summaries/haberlandt1999a.html   (922 words)

  
 A New Theoretical Framework For Explicit and Implicit Memory
Memory for different kinds of information may be dealt with by partially distinct brain structures that mediate encoding, storage and retrieval processes that are algorithmically identical (which is more likely if the regions have similar cytoarchitectonics as applies, for example, with different neocortical regions).
Explicit memory and ISIM tap semantic, perceptual and episodic information which is likely to be represented primarily in the neocortex so the synaptic changes should increase the degree to which the neurons representing the separate informational components of the memory are interconnected.
In other words, ISIM and explicit memory differ in that the former is unaware memory whereas the latter is aware memory, but both are mediated by the same two kinds of mechanism (fluency and attribution) that operate on largely common kinds of memory representation.
psyche.cs.monash.edu.au /v3/psyche-3-02-mayes.html   (20805 words)

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