According to cognitive psychology and related disciplines, the development of complex
problem-solving behaviour in biological agents depends on hierarchical cognitive …

Crosslinguistic research on domains including kinship, color, folk biology, number, and
spatial relations has documented the different ways in which languages carve up the world …

Cognitive linguists and psychologists have often argued that language is best understood as
an association network; however while the network view of language has had a significant …

Metamaterials are emerging as a new paradigmatic material system to render
unprecedented and tailorable properties for a wide variety of engineering applications …

Humans live in a perceptual world. All of humanity's accomplishments, from agriculture to
space travel, depend on us being able to interact with the world through seeing, feeling …

Unbelievable Errors defends an error theory about all normative judgements: not just moral
judgements, but also judgements about reasons for action, judgements about reasons for …

In the previous chapter, we have proposed that fluency increases with typicality and
decreases with conceptual ambiguity (postulate 11.2). When the object has been …

The phenomenon of multimodality is central to our everyday interaction.'Hybrid'modes of
communication that combine traditional uses of language with imagery, tagging, hashtags …

Hyperdimensional (HD) computing is a promising paradigm for future intelligent electronic
appliances operating at low power. This paper discusses tradeoffs of selecting parameters …

Researchers have suggested that the vocabularies of languages are oriented towards the
communicative needs of language users. Here, we provide evidence demonstrating that the …