This is Part II of the two-part comprehensive survey devoted to a computing framework most
commonly known under the names Hyperdimensional Computing and Vector Symbolic …

Conceptual abstraction and analogy‐making are key abilities underlying humans' abilities to
learn, reason, and robustly adapt their knowledge to new domains. Despite a long history of …

In everyday discourse, people describe and point at things, but they also depict things with
their hands, arms, head, face, eyes, voice, and body, with and without props. Examples are …

Biological systems in nature have evolved for millions of years to adapt and survive the
environment. Many features they developed can be inspirational and beneficial for solving …

This article provides a synthesis and overview of a theory of cognitive development, rational
constructivism. The basic tenets of this view are as follows:(a) Initial state: Human infants …

We review psychological research bearing on major theories of metaphor comprehension. A
broad survey of behavioral studies is coupled with findings from recent meta-analyses of …

How is it possible to think new thoughts? What is creativity and can science explain it? And
just how did Coleridge dream up the creatures of The Ancient Mariner? When The Creative …

Distinctions have been proposed between systems of reasoning for centuries. This article
distills properties shared by many of these distinctions and characterizes the resulting …

The authors describe a constructionist theory that accounts for the knowledge-based
inferences that are constructed when readers comprehend narrative text. Readers …

Rationalization occurs when a person has performed an action and then concocts the
beliefs and desires that would have made it rational. Then, people often adjust their own …