Object concepts are critical for nearly all aspects of human cognition, from perception tasks
like object recognition, to understanding and producing language, to making meaningful …

This essay in the “anthropology of science” is about how cognition constrains culture in
producing science. The example is folk biology, whose cultural recurrence issues from the …

Analysis and case studies show that including different orientations toward the natural world
makes for more effective scientific practice and science education. The answers to scientific …

Good computer and video games like System Shock 2, Deus Ex, Pikmin, Rise of Nations,
Neverwinter Nights, and Xenosaga: Episode 1 are learning machines. They get themselves …

This text presents state-of-the-art methods for developing concepts appropriate for nursing. It
offers a wide array of approaches to concept development, ranging from the classic to the …

This groundbreaking monograph offers a mechanistic theory of the representation and use
of semantic knowledge, integrating the strengths and overcoming many of the weaknesses …

Abstract SUSTAIN (Supervised and Unsupervised STratified Adaptive Incremental Network)
is a model of how humans learn categories from examples. SUSTAIN initially assumes a …

Throughout the history of psychology, from its earliest philosophical phase through to
modern times, it has always been taken as an empirical fact that humans have a faculty to …

Wernicke (1900, as cited in GH Eggert, 1977) suggested that semantic knowledge arises
from the interaction of perceptual representations of objects and words. The authors present …

Tasks with a complex, dynamic visual component require not only the acquisition of
conceptual/procedural but also of perceptual/attentional skills. This study examined …