Lost thoughts: Implicit semantic interference impairs reflective access to currently active information.

Lost thoughts: implicit semantic interference impairs reflective access to currently active information.

Why do we lose, or have trouble accessing, an idea that was in the focus of attention only a moment ago, especially in the absence of any apparent distraction? We tested the hypothesis that accessing a single item that is already active is affected by implicit interference (interference of which we have little or no awareness). We presented masked words that were semantically related or unrelat...

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Lost Thoughts: Implicit Semantic Interference Impairs Reflective Access to Currently Active Information

[Thoughts on cognitive access to information in Brazil].

Semantic access to multilingual legal information

Celi S.R.L. curtoni/dini/[email protected] Center for Law in Information Society, Leiden University [email protected] NLP Group, Department of Computer Science,University of Sheffield [email protected] Departamento de Informática, Universidade de Évora [email protected] Arbeitsgruppe Rechtsinformatik, Universität Wien [email protected] Istituto di Teoria e Tecniche pe...

Socio-Semantic Health Information Access

We describe Cobot, a mixed initiative socio-semantic conversational search and recommendation system for finding health information. With Cobot, users can start a real time conversation about their health concerns. Cobot then connects relevant users together in the conversation also providing contextual recommendations relevant to the conversation. Conventional search engines and content portal...