Possible long-term effects of aircraft noise on children`s cognition
... long periods, are important to assess how the effects of noise change. For example, if children are not able to adapt to noise, its impacts on their cognition could increase over time. This study focused on the UK children who had been part of the original RANCH study. 461 pupils were tested, and da ...
... long periods, are important to assess how the effects of noise change. For example, if children are not able to adapt to noise, its impacts on their cognition could increase over time. This study focused on the UK children who had been part of the original RANCH study. 461 pupils were tested, and da ...
Understanding and Interpreting the Activities of Experts: a Cognitive
... Humans have a remarkable ability to visually interpret the activities of other humans, transform thes interpretations into knowledge and subsequently exploit this knowledge in acquiring related skills. Te by demonstration therefore constitutes a powerful training technique. Currently, teaching by de ...
... Humans have a remarkable ability to visually interpret the activities of other humans, transform thes interpretations into knowledge and subsequently exploit this knowledge in acquiring related skills. Te by demonstration therefore constitutes a powerful training technique. Currently, teaching by de ...
ppt - people.csail.mit.edu
... Three important tools for extending a robot’s perceptual abilities whose importance have been recognized individually are related and brought together. The first is active perception, where the robot employs motor action to reliably perceive properties of the world that it otherwise could not. The s ...
... Three important tools for extending a robot’s perceptual abilities whose importance have been recognized individually are related and brought together. The first is active perception, where the robot employs motor action to reliably perceive properties of the world that it otherwise could not. The s ...
Emotional Regulation and Autism Spectrum
... that occurs in adolescence. Myelination, the insulating of neurons crucial for fast nerve impulse, increases 100% during adolescence. Pathways are established by slashing unused synapses and branches, creating more efficient brain communication and control. The frontal lobes, which control executiv ...
... that occurs in adolescence. Myelination, the insulating of neurons crucial for fast nerve impulse, increases 100% during adolescence. Pathways are established by slashing unused synapses and branches, creating more efficient brain communication and control. The frontal lobes, which control executiv ...
Mirror Neurons, Embodied Simulation, and the Neural Basis of
... Mirror Neurons and the Understanding of Action Intentions So far we have seen that mirror neurons in macaque monkeys likely underpin a direct form of action understanding. However, human social cognition is far more sophisticated. We not only understand what others are doing but also why, that is, w ...
... Mirror Neurons and the Understanding of Action Intentions So far we have seen that mirror neurons in macaque monkeys likely underpin a direct form of action understanding. However, human social cognition is far more sophisticated. We not only understand what others are doing but also why, that is, w ...
Intelligent Systems: Reasoning and Recognition
... However an important barrier was the requirement for large amounts of data. The availability of programmable computers made possible automatic algorithms for learning for recognition. The internet and digital sensing have brought about easy access to large volumes of data, making this approach very ...
... However an important barrier was the requirement for large amounts of data. The availability of programmable computers made possible automatic algorithms for learning for recognition. The internet and digital sensing have brought about easy access to large volumes of data, making this approach very ...
4. Interaction - My Webspace files
... postulate says this: "A person's processes are psychologically channelized by the ways in which he anticipates events." (This and all subsequent quotations are from Kelly's 1955 The Psychology of Personal Constructs. ) This is the central movement in the scientific process: from hypothesis to experi ...
... postulate says this: "A person's processes are psychologically channelized by the ways in which he anticipates events." (This and all subsequent quotations are from Kelly's 1955 The Psychology of Personal Constructs. ) This is the central movement in the scientific process: from hypothesis to experi ...
SCM Sweb
... procedures or computations on these representations. • What kinds of representations are there? ...
... procedures or computations on these representations. • What kinds of representations are there? ...
Evolutionist of intelligence Introduction
... forthcoming). Sloman's paper presents a bold hypothesis that the evolution of the human mind actually involved the development of a several dozen of virtual machines that support various forms of self-monitoring. This, in turn, helps explain different features of our cognitive functioning. In passin ...
... forthcoming). Sloman's paper presents a bold hypothesis that the evolution of the human mind actually involved the development of a several dozen of virtual machines that support various forms of self-monitoring. This, in turn, helps explain different features of our cognitive functioning. In passin ...
Framework for Modeling the Cognitive Process
... shape or form, varying anywhere from concrete to abstract at any point in time. The overall flow of signals in this dimension tends toward increasing abstraction. Representation of signals as a function of space becomes a major modeling issue. We will discuss abstraction more later in this section. ...
... shape or form, varying anywhere from concrete to abstract at any point in time. The overall flow of signals in this dimension tends toward increasing abstraction. Representation of signals as a function of space becomes a major modeling issue. We will discuss abstraction more later in this section. ...
Review of The Cognitive Structure of Emotions
... be a (relatively) basic emotion, the framework presented here suggests that it is one of the most complex. A detailed discussion of this issue can be found in Ortony and Turner (1990). Having shown that many emotions can be classified using their taxonomy of appraisal types, the authors further sugg ...
... be a (relatively) basic emotion, the framework presented here suggests that it is one of the most complex. A detailed discussion of this issue can be found in Ortony and Turner (1990). Having shown that many emotions can be classified using their taxonomy of appraisal types, the authors further sugg ...
Embodied Cognition and the Extended Mind
... competence is placed on the table. According to this new vision, certain bodily acts – such as picking up various pieces, rotating those pieces to help pattern-match for possible fits, and trying out potential candidates in the target position – are deployed as central aspects of the agent’s problem ...
... competence is placed on the table. According to this new vision, certain bodily acts – such as picking up various pieces, rotating those pieces to help pattern-match for possible fits, and trying out potential candidates in the target position – are deployed as central aspects of the agent’s problem ...
References - Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action
... A. What kinds of systems do we study? 2 A minimal model for system: composition, environment, structure 3 Intentionality and “knowing about” 4 Are epistemic, intentional systems the most general? B. Organism-environment dualism 1 Binary opposites supported by organism-environment dualism 2 Notion of ...
... A. What kinds of systems do we study? 2 A minimal model for system: composition, environment, structure 3 Intentionality and “knowing about” 4 Are epistemic, intentional systems the most general? B. Organism-environment dualism 1 Binary opposites supported by organism-environment dualism 2 Notion of ...
History and Scope of Psychology
... Topics and Questions The origins and growth of psychology, from questions to a science The big question: do our human traits develop through experience (nurture), or are we born with them (nature)? Psychology’s biopsychosocial levels of analysis Psychology’s subfields Applying psychology ...
... Topics and Questions The origins and growth of psychology, from questions to a science The big question: do our human traits develop through experience (nurture), or are we born with them (nature)? Psychology’s biopsychosocial levels of analysis Psychology’s subfields Applying psychology ...
What is Development?
... Children act on their environment and learn from those interactions; they are motivated to learn Children construct their own knowledge based on their experiences with their environment and through social interactions. Each of the four stages is related to a specific age range and children in those ...
... Children act on their environment and learn from those interactions; they are motivated to learn Children construct their own knowledge based on their experiences with their environment and through social interactions. Each of the four stages is related to a specific age range and children in those ...
The Cognition of Engineering Design—An Opportunity of Impact
... lay the foundation for an exciting field of study. A goal of cognitive science is to seek generalities beyond domains where participants’ background knowledge influences performance. For engineering innovation, domain ...
... lay the foundation for an exciting field of study. A goal of cognitive science is to seek generalities beyond domains where participants’ background knowledge influences performance. For engineering innovation, domain ...
Physical Adaptation
... Darwin’s theory stated that the diversity of organisms on earth is the result of billions of years of adaptations to changing environments. (under arm) He didn’t coin the phrase “survival of the ...
... Darwin’s theory stated that the diversity of organisms on earth is the result of billions of years of adaptations to changing environments. (under arm) He didn’t coin the phrase “survival of the ...
A Critical Analysis of Empiricism
... “Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it? Russell gets straight into the problem of justification i.e. whether there is any justification of drawing inferences from past sense data. According to Russell’s view all knowledge is in some degree doub ...
... “Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it? Russell gets straight into the problem of justification i.e. whether there is any justification of drawing inferences from past sense data. According to Russell’s view all knowledge is in some degree doub ...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
... Knowledge may be declarative (passive knowledge as statements of fact about the world) or procedural (steps used to solve an algebraic equation are expressed). Heuristic knowledge:- a special type of knowledge used by humans to solve complex problems. Heuristics are the knowledge used to make good j ...
... Knowledge may be declarative (passive knowledge as statements of fact about the world) or procedural (steps used to solve an algebraic equation are expressed). Heuristic knowledge:- a special type of knowledge used by humans to solve complex problems. Heuristics are the knowledge used to make good j ...
Is Political Cognition Like Riding a Bicycle?
... More recently, Zaller (1990; Zaller & Feldman, 1992) took a more socialcognitive view of political attitude assessment. He suggested that most people have multiple considerations (i.e., facts and beliefs that could be considered) that are potentially relevant to most survey items. What varies from t ...
... More recently, Zaller (1990; Zaller & Feldman, 1992) took a more socialcognitive view of political attitude assessment. He suggested that most people have multiple considerations (i.e., facts and beliefs that could be considered) that are potentially relevant to most survey items. What varies from t ...
Intelligence without representation* Rodney A. Brooks
... Perhaps the strongest, traditional notion of intelligent systems (at least implicitly among AI workers) has been of a central system, with perceptual modules as inputs and action modules as outputs. The perceptual modules deliver a symbolic description of the world and the action modules take a sym ...
... Perhaps the strongest, traditional notion of intelligent systems (at least implicitly among AI workers) has been of a central system, with perceptual modules as inputs and action modules as outputs. The perceptual modules deliver a symbolic description of the world and the action modules take a sym ...
The Two Sides of Mimesis
... in particular, stemming from Girard’s theory. Aren’t human beings, after all, equally describable as empathic creatures, capable of fellow feelings, love, and altruism? Furthermore, one could argue that mimesis not only generates violence, but also art, culture and creativity. However, although ther ...
... in particular, stemming from Girard’s theory. Aren’t human beings, after all, equally describable as empathic creatures, capable of fellow feelings, love, and altruism? Furthermore, one could argue that mimesis not only generates violence, but also art, culture and creativity. However, although ther ...
emergence and the logic of explanation an argument for the unity of
... rise of self-organization concepts, the concept of emergence has been revisited. Actually, the latter may serve as a proper philosophical foundation of the former, if the selforganization paradigm is understood as a turn away from the mechanistic world view and if the philosophy of emergence gets ri ...
... rise of self-organization concepts, the concept of emergence has been revisited. Actually, the latter may serve as a proper philosophical foundation of the former, if the selforganization paradigm is understood as a turn away from the mechanistic world view and if the philosophy of emergence gets ri ...
Every contact leaves a trace: IPA as a method for Social Work research
... tapping into the unique nature of each human situation. Dilthey (as cited in Van Manen, 1990) suggested that at its most basic level, lived experience is about “our immediate, pre‐reflective consciousness of life: a reflexive or self‐given awareness which is, as awareness, unaware of itself,” (p ...
... tapping into the unique nature of each human situation. Dilthey (as cited in Van Manen, 1990) suggested that at its most basic level, lived experience is about “our immediate, pre‐reflective consciousness of life: a reflexive or self‐given awareness which is, as awareness, unaware of itself,” (p ...