{"id":1329,"date":"2011-04-07T22:04:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T05:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2011-04-07T22:04:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T05:04:47","slug":"neurolab-1-2-0-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=1329","title":{"rendered":"NeuroLab 1.2.0 Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Version 1.2.0 of the Neurocognitive Linguistics Laboratory is now<br \/>\navailable at <a href=\"http:\/\/neurolab.bitbucket.org\">http:\/\/neurolab.bitbucket.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Highlights of this release include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The primary new feature in this release is the &#8220;Grid Item&#8221;.  This<br \/>\ntype of network item allows you to create a small &#8220;template&#8221; network,<br \/>\nalong with symmetrical connections to its top, bottom, and sides.<br \/>\nThen the program generates a huge grid consisting of repeated<br \/>\ninstances of your template, with each instance connected to its<br \/>\nneighbors via the edge connections.  The overall topology of the grid<br \/>\nis cylindrical; the sides wrap around, but the very top and bottom<br \/>\nrows can connect to other network items.<\/li>\n<li>A simple way to input and output text to a grid is provided via the<br \/>\n&#8220;Text IO Item&#8221;.  This is a network item that has 256 connections in<br \/>\nand out; if you connect it to a grid item that has 256 horizontal<br \/>\nrepeats it will feed your text (in UTF-8 format) byte by byte as<br \/>\nactivation to the different grid repeats, and output results from the<br \/>\ngrid if one of its outputs is activated.<\/li>\n<li>There are several UI improvements in version 1.2.0, including a<br \/>\npalette of network items from which you can drag items into the<br \/>\nnetwork editing area.<\/li>\n<li>The underlying network automaton is vastly sped up in version 1.2.0<br \/>\nby using seqlocks instead of mutexes to manage memory consistency.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can reply with questions or discussion about NeuroLab on this<br \/>\nmailing list.  Please report bugs via the issue tracker:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bitbucket.org\/kulibali\/neurocogling\/issues\/new\">https:\/\/bitbucket.org\/kulibali\/neurocogling\/issues\/new<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Neurocognitive Linguistics is an approach to linguistics developed by<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruf.rice.edu\/~lamb\/\">Sydney Lamb<\/a> which uses relational<br \/>\nnetworks to model what the brain actually does when it handles<br \/>\nlanguage. You can read more about it at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruf.rice.edu\/~lngbrain\/main.htm\">LangBrain site<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glottopedia.de\/index.php\/Neurocognitive_linguistics\">Glottopedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Neurocognitive Linguistics Lab (&#8220;NeuroLab&#8221; for short) is a program for<br \/>\nWindows, Mac OS X and Linux that allows you to experiment with<br \/>\nrelational networks using a convenient GUI, and record the results of<br \/>\nyour experiments in tabular form.<\/p>\n<p>Neurocognitive Linguistics Lab is Copyright (C) 2010,2011 Gordon<br \/>\nTisher, and available under the terms of the BSD License.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Version 1.2.0 of the Neurocognitive Linguistics Laboratory is now available at http:\/\/neurolab.bitbucket.org Highlights of this release include: The primary new feature in this release is the &#8220;Grid Item&#8221;. This type of network item allows you to create a small &#8220;template&#8221; network, along with symmetrical connections to its top, bottom, and sides. Then the program generates &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=1329\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NeuroLab 1.2.0 Released&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,7],"tags":[162],"class_list":["post-1329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-journal","category-linguistics","tag-neurolab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1334,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions\/1334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}