Sensitivity and response time improvements in millimeter-wave spectrometers

Sensitivity and response time improvements in a millimeter‐wave spectrometer

Review of Scientific Instruments ◽

10.1063/1.1137061 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 53 (6) ◽

pp. 769-775 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

W. F. Kolbe ◽

B. Leskovar

Keyword(s):

Response Time ◽

Millimeter Wave ◽

Wave Spectrometer

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Thin Film Inspection with Millimeter-Wave Reflectometer

Research in Nondestructive Evaluation ◽

10.1080/09349849508968223 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 89-100

Author(s):

H. C. Han ◽

E. S. Mansueto

Keyword(s):

Thin Film ◽

Millimeter Wave

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Temporal Prediction Errors Affect Short-Term Memory Scanning Response Time

Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie) ◽

10.1027/1618-3169/a000339 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 63 (6) ◽

pp. 333-342

Author(s):

Roberto Limongi ◽

Angélica M. Silva

Keyword(s):

Response Time ◽

Short Term Memory ◽

Estimation Error ◽

Predictive Coding ◽

Time Estimation ◽

Prediction Errors ◽

Memory Scanning ◽

Short Term ◽

Term Memory ◽

Temporal Prediction

Abstract. The Sternberg short-term memory scanning task has been used to unveil cognitive operations involved in time perception. Participants produce time intervals during the task, and the researcher explores how task performance affects interval production – where time estimation error is the dependent variable of interest. The perspective of predictive behavior regards time estimation error as a temporal prediction error (PE), an independent variable that controls cognition, behavior, and learning. Based on this perspective, we investigated whether temporal PEs affect short-term memory scanning. Participants performed temporal predictions while they maintained information in memory. Model inference revealed that PEs affected memory scanning response time independently of the memory-set size effect. We discuss the results within the context of formal and mechanistic models of short-term memory scanning and predictive coding, a Bayes-based theory of brain function. We state the hypothesis that our finding could be associated with weak frontostriatal connections and weak striatal activity.

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