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Behavioral Sciences, 2022 The frog-in-the-pan (FIP) phenomenon suggests that investors are more sensitive to abrupt price changes than gradual price changes in the stock market. Based on the cognitive-evolutionary model of surprise and the reinforcement learning model, this paper
Dapeng Liang +4 more
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Artificial Intelligence, 2022 In this paper we present a topological epistemic logic, with modalities for knowledge (modeled as the universal modality), knowability (represented by the topological interior operator), and unknowability of the actual world. The last notion has a non-self-referential reading (modeled by Cantor derivative: the set of limit points of a given set) and a ...
Baltag, Alexandru +2 more
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Electrophysiological indicators of surprise and entropy in dynamic task-switching environments
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013 This event-related brain potential (ERP) study aimed at bridging two hitherto widely separated domains of cognitive neuroscience. Specifically, we combined the analysis of cognitive control in a cued task-switching paradigm with the fundamental question ...
Bruno eKopp, Florian eLange
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The Narrative Affordances and Limitations of Internal Focalization for Creating Suspense and Surprise in Persian Detective Novels, A Case Study: Esmail Fassih’s the Falcon and the Owls [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2022 Various types of focalization are important elements in creating suspense and surprise. This study finds use of narrative discourse analysis in order to discover the narrative affordances and limitations of internal focalization for creating suspense and
Reza Nekoei +2 more
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IMF Working Papers, 2016 This paper investigates possible drivers of volatility in the South African rand since the onset of the global financial crisis. We assess the role played by local and international economic surprises, commodity price volatility, global market risk perceptions, and local political uncertainty.
Nasha Maveé +2 more
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Pupil dilation signals uncertainty and surprise in a learning gambling task
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2014 Pupil dilation under constant illumination is a physiological marker which modulation is related to several cognitive functions involved in daily decision making.
Claudio eLavin +6 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 When performing sequential manual actions (e.g., cooking), visual information is prioritized according to the task determining where and when to attend, look, and act.
Rebecca Martina Foerster
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021 Previous work demonstrates that music with more surprising chords tends to be perceived as more enjoyable than music with more conventional harmonic structures. In that work, harmonic surprise was computed based upon a static distribution of chords. This
Scott A. Miles +8 more
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A Free Energy Principle for Biological Systems
Entropy, 2012 This paper describes a free energy principle that tries to explain the ability of biological systems to resist a natural tendency to disorder. It appeals to circular causality of the sort found in synergetic formulations of self-organization (e.g., the ...
Friston Karl
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Is the market surprised by the surprise? [PDF]
International Journal of Disclosure and Governance, 2020 This study examines how the market reacts to earnings surprises with different characteristics such as future earnings prospects and historical surprises embedded in the earnings announced. We also explore the effect of corporate governance on market reaction to earnings information disseminated through earnings announcements.
Khine Kyaw +2 more
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