• Such constraints do not mean cognition is set by adaptive behavior (or autopoiesis) alone, but instead that cognition requires "some kind of information processing. (wikipedia.org)
  • The present work focuses on the computational nature of a panoramic representation that is proposed to link visual and mnemonic functions during natural behavior. (biorxiv.org)
  • S/he will be based at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), University of Amsterdam, but also be closely linked to the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University, Nijmegen. (lu.se)
  • This is the more astonishing because there is a clear transition in the graphic representations of children from object-based to space-based constructions ( Lange-Küttner, 2008a , 2020 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • I charge that while they provide a better explanation of aspects of cognition, they fail to address fundamental questions to do with the intentionality of our mental states towards the world. (cognitivephilosophy.net)
  • In rejecting representation, they keep pushing the fundamental question of intentionality further and further back. (cognitivephilosophy.net)
  • What Are Neural Representations? (pitt.edu)
  • Gopnik argues that children's understanding of their own beliefs (and other intentional states) is mediated by the same internal representations as their understanding of the beliefs of others, and hence there is nothing ``privileged'' or ``direct'' about access to first-person intentional states. (cmu.edu)
  • Pushing the Envelope of Associative Learning: Internal Representations and Dynamic Competition Transform Association into Development. (igi-global.com)
  • D. E. Rumelhart, G. E. Hinton and R. J. Williams, ``Learning Internal Representations by Error Propagation'', in D. E. Rumelhart and J. L. McClelland (eds. (lu.se)
  • In philosophy, embodied cognition holds that an agent's cognition, rather than being the product of mere (innate) abstract representations of the world, is strongly influenced by aspects of an agent's body beyond the brain itself. (wikipedia.org)
  • Thus, the embodiment thesis can be specified as follows: Many features of cognition are embodied in that they are deeply dependent upon characteristics of the physical body of an agent, such that the agent's beyond-the-brain body plays a significant causal role, or a physically constitutive role, in that agent's cognitive processing. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mental representations also allow people to experience things right in front of them-however, the process of how the brain interprets and stores the representational content is debated. (wikipedia.org)
  • Invariant representation of physical stability in the human brain. (mit.edu)
  • Invariant representations of mass in the human brain. (mit.edu)
  • Topographic representation of high-level cognition: Numerosity or sensory processing? (ox.ac.uk)
  • Although visual imagery is more likely to be recalled, mental imagery may involve representations in any of the sensory modalities, such as hearing, smell, or taste. (wikipedia.org)
  • Domain-general spatial modulation of motor responses by number representations. (cmu.edu)
  • This refers to a representation of an environment based on an individual's own body-centred spatial frame of reference (understanding the location of landmarks and paths in relation to the self). (surrey.ac.uk)
  • In a spiking artificial neuron network model of the dorsal visual path it is shown how time-integration of spatial views can give rise to such a representation and how it can subsequently be used to perform memory-based spatial reorientation and visual search. (biorxiv.org)
  • Genetic contributions to visuospatial cognition in Williams syndrome: Insights from two contrasting partial deletion patients. (surrey.ac.uk)
  • Thus, the evolution of the complexity of mental event representations also provides insight into the evolution of the structure of language. (lu.se)
  • The evolution of language from social cognition. (upenn.edu)
  • Here, we review instructive examples of living organisms solving diverse problems and propose competent navigation in arbitrary spaces as an invariant for thinking about the scaling of cognition during evolution. (mdpi.com)
  • The evolution of social cognition in Archosauria: Gaze following and play as windows to social cognition in dinosaurs [Doctoral thesis]. (lu.se)
  • This double sense attributed to the embodiment thesis emphasizes the many aspects of cognition that researchers in different fields-such as philosophy, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, psychology, and neuroscience-are involved with. (wikipedia.org)
  • A mental representation (or cognitive representation ), in philosophy of mind , cognitive psychology , neuroscience , and cognitive science , is a hypothetical internal cognitive symbol that represents external reality or its abstractions . (wikipedia.org)
  • Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. (mpi.nl)
  • SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Age-related impairments in value representation and updating during reward-based learning are associated with declines in the catecholamine modulation with age. (jneurosci.org)
  • Gomez, 1991), that the propositional attitudes they involve find an early behavioral manifestation in toddlers' pretend play (Leslie, 1987), and that the capacity for meta-representation is specifically human (Karmiloff-Smith, 1979a, 1979b). (cmu.edu)
  • On the origins of physical cognition in corvids [Doctoral thesis]. (lu.se)
  • A mental representation of an event contains two vectors representing a cause as well as a result but also entities such as. (lu.se)
  • It is closely related to the extended mind thesis, situated cognition, and enactivism. (wikipedia.org)
  • Proponents of the embodied cognition thesis emphasize the active and significant role the body plays in the shaping of cognition and in the understanding of an agent's mind and cognitive capacities. (wikipedia.org)
  • With this opposition the embodiment thesis intends to reintroduce an agent's bodily experiences into any account of cognition. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some authors explain the embodiment thesis by arguing that cognition depends on an agent's body and its interactions with a determined environment. (wikipedia.org)
  • Another approach to understanding embodied cognition comes from a narrower characterization of the embodiment thesis. (wikipedia.org)
  • We do not fundamentally disagree with Gopnik's general thesis that common representations subserve theory-of-mind computations for both first- and third-person states. (cmu.edu)
  • Contours of Cognition [Doctoral thesis]. (lu.se)
  • This general characterization of embodiment faces some difficulties: a consequence of this emphasis on the body, experience, culture, context, and the cognitive mechanisms of an agent in the world is that often distinct views and approaches to embodied cognition overlap. (wikipedia.org)
  • Acknowledging that language provides a window on both cognition and culture, the project bridges the gap between psychological and cultural approaches to the senses. (lu.se)
  • In contrast to theories of naïve or direct realism , the representational theory of mind postulates the actual existence of mental representations which act as intermediaries between the observing subject and the objects , processes or other entities observed in the external world. (wikipedia.org)
  • For example, when someone arrives at the belief that their floor needs sweeping, the representational theory of mind states that they form a mental representation that represents the floor and its state of cleanliness. (wikipedia.org)
  • According to this version of the theory, the mental representations were images (often called "ideas") of the objects or states of affairs represented. (wikipedia.org)
  • She goes on to claim that these common representations take the form of an explicit theory that is directly analogous to a scientific theory. (cmu.edu)
  • However, we claim that the developmental pattern of success and failure on theory-of-mind tasks can be better understood in terms of progress refinement and elaboration of the representations that underlie intentional states, rather than in terms of discrete stages of improvement in access to fully-specified representations. (cmu.edu)
  • Next we will focus on the theory itself by introducing the four primary types of information - the situation model components, its Levels of Representation and finally two other basic types of knowledge used in situation model construction and processing (general world knowledge and referent specific knowledge). (wikibooks.org)
  • In the late 1980's, Browns, Collins, and Duguid developed situated cognition, which is also known as situated learning theory. (ubc.ca)
  • Furthermore, the situated cognition theory is based on a sociocultural setting over an individual setting. (ubc.ca)
  • As Driscoll discusses about the antecedents of the Situated Cognition Theory, he brings up the argument that Brown et al. (ubc.ca)
  • It would be a mistake, however, to suppose that cognition consists simply of building maximally accurate representations of input information. (wikipedia.org)
  • The fundamental connection between event representations and language is that de-clarative sentences express events (or states). (lu.se)
  • Finally, the components of the event representation show up in language, where causes and effects are expressed by verbs, agents and patients by nouns (modified by adjectives), locations by prepositions, etc. (lu.se)
  • Consultant on language and its representation of space. (buffalo.edu)
  • Research Center for Language and Cognition. (buffalo.edu)
  • How can we leverage digital technologies to enhance second language learning and bilingual representation? (lu.se)
  • In this talk, I outline the approach of digital language learning (DLL) for L2 acquisition and representation, and provide a theoretical synthesis and analytical framework with respect to DLL's current and future promises. (lu.se)
  • Accounting for such discoveries requires a distributed cognition (DC) analysis, as DC focuses on the roles played by external representations in cognitive processes. (ed.gov)
  • In contrast, we study discovery processes and argue that discoveries emerge from the processes of 'building' the computational representation. (ed.gov)
  • In an attempt to reconcile cognitive science with human experience, the enactive approach to cognition defines "embodiment" as follows: By using the term embodied we mean to highlight two points: first that cognition depends upon the kinds of experience that come from having a body with various sensorimotor capacities, and second, that these individual sensorimotor capacities are themselves embedded in a more encompassing biological, psychological and cultural context. (wikipedia.org)
  • A comparison between humans and non-human primates suggests that human causal cognition is based on reasoning about the underlying forces that are involved in events, while other primates hardly understand external forces. (lu.se)
  • Second, the thinking concerning forces in causation is used to motivate a model of human event cognition. (lu.se)
  • Clancey (1997) claims that the nature of situated cognition is based on the notion that every human thought made is tailored to the surrounding environment. (ubc.ca)
  • The research project will use behavioral and EEG experiments as well as individual-differences studies to investigate the function of neurally active representations. (escop.eu)
  • The original focused on how Husserl's work anticipated advancements in cognitive science and embodied cognition research. (cognitivephilosophy.net)
  • Two analytical lenses which constitute two strands of research commonly seen as incompatible due to their different units of analysis - affect as linguistic representation and affect as practice - are combined to elucidate the aligning potentials of affect in communicative acts. (lu.se)
  • The cognitive roles played by such computational representations in discovery are not well understood. (ed.gov)
  • We present a theoretical analysis of the cognitive roles such representations play, based on an ethnographic study of the building of computational models in a systems biology laboratory. (ed.gov)
  • As a result, they have come up with an approach, called situated cognition, which stresses on the roles of feedback, emergence, and mutual organization in intelligent behaviour (Clancey, 1997). (ubc.ca)
  • Kirshner and Whitson (1997) stated that cognition is believed to be created through activities that are both social and situated in nature, where one learns through mimicking what experts do (as cited in Driscoll, 2005). (ubc.ca)
  • Topics include a six-way distinction into political issues (e.g. fiscal household), social issues (e.g. health care), humanitarian issues, environment, representation (e.g. ceremonial duties) and campaign speeches. (lu.se)
  • However, DC analyses by and large have not examined scientific discovery, and they mostly focus on memory offloading, particularly how the 'use' of existing external representations changes the nature of cognitive tasks. (ed.gov)
  • Memory & Cognition, 37, 65 - 72. (uregina.ca)
  • Memory & Cognition, 33, 633 - 647. (uregina.ca)
  • Effects of multiplication practice on product verification: Integrated structures model or retrieval-induced forgetting?Memory & Cognition, 32, 324-335. (uregina.ca)
  • Examining the Hierarchical Nature of Scene Representations in Memory. (queensu.ca)
  • Situation models not only form a central concept in theories of situated cognition that helps us in understanding how situational information is collected and how new information gets integrated, but they can also explain many other phenomena. (wikibooks.org)
  • An embodied model of cognition opposes the disembodied Cartesian model, according to which all mental phenomena are non-physical and, therefore, not influenced by the body. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mental representation is the mental imagery of things that are not actually present to the senses. (wikipedia.org)
  • [3] In contemporary philosophy , specifically in fields of metaphysics such as philosophy of mind and ontology , a mental representation is one of the prevailing ways of explaining and describing the nature of ideas and concepts . (wikipedia.org)
  • Mental representations (or mental imagery) enable representing things that have never been experienced as well as things that do not exist. (wikipedia.org)
  • With this chapter we introduce the concept of a "situation model" (van Dijk&Kintsch, 1983, "mental model": Johnson-Laird, 1983), which is the mental representation of what a text is about. (wikibooks.org)
  • Mutual understanding in dialogue requires convergence on mental representations of meaning between interlocutors. (lu.se)
  • Peek-a-boo: Occlusion Reasoning in Indoor Scenes with Plane Representations We address the challenging task of occlusion-aware indoor 3D scene understanding. (nec-labs.com)
  • The building process integrates manipulations in imagination and in the representation, creating a 'coupled cognitive system' of model and modeler, where the model is 'incorporated' into the modeler's imagination. (ed.gov)
  • We address these issues here by way of Dennett's appeal to use computational thinking as an analytical tool, specifically we employ the Common Model of Cognition. (researchgate.net)
  • we employ the Common Model of Cognition. (researchgate.net)
  • Novel computational representations, such as simulation models of complex systems and video games for scientific discovery (Foldit, EteRNA etc.), are dramatically changing the way discoveries emerge in science and engineering. (ed.gov)
  • However, if the environment contains uncertain information that cannot be easily observed, individuals apply trial and error strategies to update their value representations according to previous outcomes until they collect knowledge about the hidden information in the environment. (jneurosci.org)
  • a - d , f ) A simple way to gain insight into function is to use ribbon representation colored by sequence features: for example, domains ( a ), SNPs ( b ), exons ( c ), protein binding sites ( d ) and sequence conservation ( f ). ( e ) An effective way to show overall shape is with nonphotorealistic rendering using flat colors and outlines. (nature.com)
  • Affective alignments as representation or practice are significant because affective connections made between actors, objects, actions and understandings are ways of looking at the indirect mobilization of the issue communicated. (lu.se)
  • This is illustrated by an analysis of the causal cognition required for early hominin tool use. (lu.se)
  • Since the whole purpose of music representation is computer analysis, retrieval, or synthesis, most of the representation systems focused on representation of musical notation, particularly, the Common Western Notation (CWN), because of its effectiveness in representing discrete elements of music. (springer.com)
  • Extrapolating these findings to racial prejudice in media coverage, it can be anticipated that negative stereotypical representations in the media pertain especially to more culturally distinct outgroups than those outgroups culturally closer to the national ingroup. (degruyter.com)