cerebral pacemaker

a hypothetical group of nerve cells in the brain that are believed to regulate the rhythms of brain waves in the cerebral hemispheres. The cerebral pacemaker is believed to be located at the base of the brain, in the region of the hypothalamus or in the reticular formation.

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January 14th 2025

Kruskal–Shepard scaling

a type of multidimensional scaling applied to judgments of similarity or dissimilarity for pairs of items (e.g., cities). The dissimilarities are represented by distances between items in a highly dimensional space: Larger distances indicate greater dissimilarity. [William Henry Kruskal (1919–2005), U.S. statistician; Roger N. Shepard (1929– ), U.S. experimental and cognitive psychologist]