This thesis explores the role of orientation selectivity and contrast gain control with respect to Barlow's normative redundancy reduction hypothesis in simple models of the early visual system. Our general approach uses ...

In event semantics, manner adverbs are analysed as 'predicates of events'. However, many such event predicates have variants that apply to individuals instead of events; e.g. : 'to answer the question stupidly' vs. 'a ...