Sometimes the key to making a good startup is modifying an existing idea with slight improvements.
To test these specific ideas, we modified an established paradigm, spontaneous location recognition (Ennaceur et al., 1997; Warburton et al., 2000), to allow parametric manipulation of the load on pattern separation.
To test these specific ideas, we modified an established paradigm, spontaneous location recognition (SLR) (Ennaceur et al., 1997; Warburton et al., 2000), to allow parametric manipulation of the load on pattern separation (Bekinschtein et al., 2013).
In a hierarchy the power to kill or modify a new idea is often vested in a single person, whose parochial interests may skew decisions.
And we're not above borrowing and modifying a good idea someone else invented.
The religion-is-an-instinct theory is a modified version of an idea developed by Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics, who was not involved in the new study.
In Britain, the Labor Party is contemplating a proposal to give $14,000 to every 18-year-old to invest either in his education or in a house -- a modified version of an idea proposed by Bruce Ackerman, a law professor at Yale University, in his book "The Stakeholder Society".
Richard Owen, England's leading anatomist at the time, argued that over time God created new species by modifying a basic anatomical idea, an "archetype". Darwin, finally, recognized that fossils recorded the evolution and extinction of life, as natural selection and other natural factors changed species through time.
"And there are the same fears one might have about genetically modified crops the idea that a modification may move into relatives, may jump in and out, or may not be expressed in the way that you expect".
Behavioural and cognitive-behavioural treatments, which are included in these programs, are based on the idea that modifying an individual's responses to his or her condition will reduce disability and suffering from chronic pain.
