Cognition can be defined as computation over meaningful representations in the brain to
produce adaptive behaviour. There are two views on the relationship between cognition and …

A central goal of neuroscience is to understand the representations formed by brain activity
patterns and their connection to behaviour. The classic approach is to investigate how …

Abstract The Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) was developed over the last two decades
by consistently putting together theories from areas such as formal ontology in philosophy …

BACKGROUND Ever since Edward Tolman's proposal that comprehensive cognitive maps
underlie spatial navigation and, more generally, psychological functions, the question of …

Over the past years, distributed semantic representations have proved to be effective and
flexible keepers of prior knowledge to be integrated into downstream applications. This …

The cognitive concept of representation plays a key role in theories of brain information
processing. However, linking neuronal activity to representational content and cognitive …

Conceptual engineering is a branch of philosophy that is concerned with assessing
representational devices such as concepts and words. Conceptual engineers looks for the …

Much of our understanding of human thinking is based on probabilistic models. This
innovative book by Jerome R. Busemeyer and Peter D. Bruza argues that, actually, the …

In this paper, an overview of human–robot interactive communication is presented, covering
verbal as well as non-verbal aspects. Following a historical introduction, and motivation …

Abstract dolce, the first top-level (foundational) ontology to be axiomatized, has remained
stable for twenty years and today is broadly used in a variety of domains. dolce is inspired by …