Again, how about the two great theories of the twentieth century; relativity and quantum mechanics?Newton's theories of motion and gravitation were very close to right, and they would have been absolutely right if only the speed of light were infinite. However, the speed of light is finite, and that had to be taken into account in Einstein's relativistic equations, which were an extension and refinement of Newton's equations.
If light traveled at infinite speed, it would take light 0 seconds to travel a meter. At the speed at which light actually travels, however, it takes it 0.0000000033 seconds. It is that difference between 0 and 0.0000000033 that Einstein corrected for.
Conceptually, the correction was as important as the correction of Earth's curvature from 0 to 8 inches per mile was. Speeding subatomic particles wouldn't behave the way they do without the correction, nor would particle accelerators work the way they do, nor nuclear bombs explode, nor the stars shine. Nevertheless, it was a tiny correction and it is no wonder that Newton, in his time, could not allow for it, since he was limited in his observations to speeds and distances over which the correction was insignificant.
Newton's theory of gravitation, while incomplete over vast distances and enormous speeds, is perfectly suitable for the Solar System. Halley's Comet appears punctually as Newton's theory of gravitation and laws of motion predict. All of rocketry is based on Newton, and Voyager II reached Uranus within a second of the predicted time. None of these things were outlawed by relativity.
Hi @asimon, This is because the simulation uses a rotating mesh zone in a steady state simulation. This applies rotational forces within the zone thus allowing it to be simulated as steady state. To simulate the blades actually rotating you will need to us an AMI for the rotating zone and simulate using a transient model. This is much more computationally expensive.
One of the most firmly established factors determining the speed of human behavioral responses toward action-critical stimuli is the spatial correspondence between the stimulus and response locations. If both locations match, the time taken for response production is markedly reduced relative to when they mismatch, a phenomenon called the Simon effect. While there is a consensus that this stimulus-response (S-R) conflict is associated with brief (4-7 Hz) frontal midline theta (fmθ) complexes generated in medial frontal cortex, it remains controversial (1) whether there are multiple, simultaneously active theta generator areas in the medial frontal cortex that commonly give rise to conflict-related fmθ complexes; and if so, (2) whether they are all related to the resolution of conflicting task information. Here, we combined mental chronometry with high-density electroencephalographic measures during a Simon-type manual reaching task and used independent component analysis and time-frequency domain statistics on source-level activities to model fmθ sources. During target processing, our results revealed two independent fmθ generators simultaneously active in or near anterior cingulate cortex, only one of them reflecting the correspondence between current and previous S-R locations. However, this fmθ response is not exclusively linked to conflict but also to other, conflict-independent processes associated with response slowing. These results paint a detailed picture regarding the oscillatory correlates of conflict processing in Simon tasks, and challenge the prevalent notion that fmθ complexes induced by conflicting task information represent a unitary phenomenon related to cognitive control, which governs conflict processing across various types of response-override tasks.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Humans constantly monitor their environment for and adjust their cognitive control settings in response to conflicts, an ability that arguably paves the way for survival in ever-changing situations. Anterior cingulate-generated frontal midline theta (fmθ) complexes have been hypothesized to play a role in this conflict-monitoring function. However, it remains a point of contention whether fmθ complexes govern conflict processing in a unitary, paradigm-nonspecific manner. Here, we identified two independent fmθ oscillations triggered during a Simon-type task, only one of them reflecting current and previous conflicts. Importantly, this signal differed in various respects (cortical origin, intertrial history) from fmθ phenomena in other response-override tasks, challenging the prevalent notion of conflict-induced fmθ as a unitary phenomenon associated with the resolution of conflict.
The Simon Effect is a phenomenon in which reaction times are usually faster when the stimulus location and the response correspond, even if the stimulus location is irrelevant to the task. Recent studies have demonstrated the Simon effect in a three-dimensional (3-D) display. The present study examined whether two-dimensional (2-D) and 3-D locations simultaneously affected the Simon effect for stimuli in which a target and fixation were located on the same plane (ground or ceiling) at different 3-D depths, and the perspective effect produced a difference in the 2-D vertical location of the target stimulus relative to the fixation. The presence of the ground and ceiling plane was controlled to examine the contextual effects of background. The results showed that the 2-D vertical location and 3-D depth simultaneously affected the speed of responses, and they did not interact. The presence of the background did not affect the magnitude of either the 2-D or the 3-D Simon effect. These results suggest that 2-D vertical location and 3-D depth are coded simultaneously and independently, and both affect response selection in which 2-D and 3-D representations overlap.
After that comes a long discussion of how best to purify thiotimoline, and the effects of different impurities and additives on the speed of its dissolution, complete with several complex charts. This might be the cleverest and most cutting element of his satire; the paper spends only a sentence or two on the eye-popping, mind-bending revelation of thiotimoline's existence, then another four pages on dull experiments.
The cognitive processes underlying the ability of human performers to trade speed for accuracy is often conceptualized within evidence accumulation models, but it is not yet clear whether and how these models can account for decision-making in the presence of various sources of conflicting information. In the present study, we provide evidence that speed-accuracy tradeoffs (SATs) can have opposing effects on performance across two different conflict tasks. Specifically, in a single preregistered experiment, the mean reaction time (RT) congruency effect in the Simon task increased, whereas the mean RT congruency effect in the Eriksen task decreased, when the focus was put on response speed versus accuracy. Critically, distributional RT analyses revealed distinct delta plot patterns across tasks, thus indicating that the unfolding of distractor-based response activation in time is sufficient to explain the opposing pattern of congruency effects. In addition, a recent evidence accumulation model with the notion of time-varying conflicting information was successfully fitted to the experimental data. These fits revealed task-specific time-courses of distractor-based activation and suggested that time pressure substantially decreases decision boundaries in addition to reducing the duration of non-decision processes and the rate of evidence accumulation. Overall, the present results suggest that time pressure can have multiple effects in decision-making under conflict, but that strategic adjustments of decision boundaries in conjunction with different time-courses of distractor-based activation can produce counteracting effects on task performance with different types of distracting sources of information.
One of the most basic characteristics of the human cognitive system is the ability to trade off speed for accuracy in decision-making (e.g., Bogacz et al., 2006; Heitz, 2014; Luce, 1986; Pachella, 1974). Specifically, results from a variety of different perceptual decision-making tasks have shown that task processing time and accuracy jointly increase or decrease (e.g., Khodadadi et al., 2017; Miller et al., 2008; Rae et al., 2014; Steinemann et al., 2018). Investigating the underlying mechanisms of this joint function, the so-called speed-accuracy tradeoff (SAT), is a continuing concern within the field of cognitive psychology. The present study aims to contribute to this investigation by demonstrating that SATs can differentially affect task performance (i.e., reaction time (RT)) when making decisions in the presence of conflicting sources of information (e.g., Eriksen & Eriksen, 1974; Simon & Rudell, 1967). Moreover, we show that the somewhat paradoxical empirical finding of increased versus decreased mean congruency RT effects in Simon versus Eriksen tasks with time pressure can be explained within processing architectures that incorporate the idea of time-based processing of distracting information (i.e., location and flankers) by additionally examining the corresponding distributional RT patterns and simulating and fitting the data to the Diffusion Model for Conflict (DMC) tasks (Ulrich et al., 2015).
The specific goals of the above-mentioned SAT-Simon and SAT-Eriksen task studies differed in many respects, but the presence of SATs in all of these studies is at least partially explained by adjustments of decision boundaries (e.g., Dambacher & Hübner, 2015; Hedge et al., 2019; Van Veen et al., 2008). Furthermore, motor processes seem to be affected by SAT adjustments in both Simon (Servant et al., 2018; Van der Lubbe et al., 2001) as well as Eriksen task studies (e.g., Rinkenauer et al., 2004; Spieser et al., 2017). However, we noticed some hints that point to a crucial discrepancy when reviewing the effects of SAT manipulations on the congruency RT effects.Footnote 1 Although congruency effects were present in both Simon and Eriksen SAT-conflict paradigms, the Eriksen congruency effect was typically larger with accuracy compared to speed focus (e.g., Dambacher & Hübner, 2015; Hedge et al., 2019; Spieser et al., 2017; Wylie et al., 2009), whereas the Simon congruency effect was larger with speed compared to accuracy focus (e.g., Van der Lubbe et al., 2001; Van Veen et al., 2008). However, this observation has neither been discussed nor directly tested within a single experiment designed for that purpose. The primary goal of the present study was to directly test the hypothesis that speed pressure can differentially affect task performance with different sources of distracting information (i.e., irrelevant flankers vs. irrelevant location). Thus, participants were required to make choice responses to the same target letters in Simon and Eriksen tasks that alternated from block to block, and task variation was combined with an SAT manipulation.
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