Negative mental representations in infancy

Mental Representations of Lyrical Prose

The article analyzes mental representations of Russian lyrical prose texts. The texts demonstrate collective memory engrams that are defined by cultural and historical legacy of the nation and authors’ creative world perception. In architectonics of a lyrical prose text, sense perception reveals itself in accumulated underlying meanings and wisdom conveyed by expressive means. The author’s inte...

Sudden mental deterioration with convulsions in infancy.

A wide variety of diseases in infancy is associated with convulsions and mental deterioration. In many there are spasticity, ataxia or other abnormal neurological signs. In other children presenting with convulsions followed by mental deterioration there are no abnormal neurological signs apart from those of the mental changes. Most writers ascribe the mental changes to the convulsions, though ...

Mental Sampling in Multimodal Representations

Both resources in the natural environment and concepts in a semantic space are distributed “patchily”, with large gaps in between the patches. To describe people’s internal and external foraging behavior, various random walk models have been proposed. In particular, internal foraging has been modeled as sampling: in order to gather relevant information for making a decision, people draw samples...

Dynamic mental representations

Dynamic mental representations