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A complete specification of the model will require more investigation of the role of top-down inhibition among representations.
Forthcoming procedures for the analysis of electroacoustic music should derive from the synthesis of top-down and bottom-up views derived from different competences.
Thus, the refinement of abstract model into a detailed one is, in their interpretation, a feature of top-down design.
Experimental test in lowland tropical forest shows top-down effects through four trophic levels.
Research results to back up this top-down relationship are easily found.
This approach relieves the problems existing in a bottom-up approach and those in a top-down approach.
Repeated spatial or temporal coincidences between top-down expectation signals and bottom-up input signals reinforce the relative weights of signal exchanges in a given neural circuit.
The electoral majority the government rests on is top-down, not bottom-up, and thus is not one created by the voters' expressed preferences.
The column was subjected to several cycles of top-down freezing and thawing to simulate an active layer.
It is an account of the dangers of blueprint, top-down development and its focus on scientific control.
All the rich associations of "top-down" control were built into the discourse and nowhere questioned.
Increasing the information content of input representations minimizes the potential necessity for top-down processes.
Along with top-down support and reasonable expectations, here are further components in initial planning.
Produce by these small farmers was marketed either by ' top-down-created ' co-operatives or state owned crop authorities.
The richness of these bottom-up sources of redundancy leaves little room for any top-down sources to improve the phonological yield.
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