To what extent do people anchor thoughts about social relationships in terms of space and time? Three studies used drawing and estimation tasks to further explore the conceptual structure of “social” distance. In the three studies, participants read short narratives, drew what they imagined happening during the narrative, then estimated both time and distance. In general, results suggest that t...

The presence and plasticity of dendritic ion channels are well established. However, the literature is divided on what specific roles these dendritic ion channels play in neuronal information processing, and there is no consensus on why neuronal dendrites should express diverse ion channels with different expression profiles. In this review, we present a case for viewing dendritic information p...

This article proposed the models of intelligence type multimedia teaching software focusing on thinking. The design of the models reflects the characteristics of network , intelligence , multimedia , the design of modules and focusing on thinking. It also constructed a platformof developing teaching softwares , on which the brand new I-CAI teaching softwares can be developed and the existent CA...

Locate the relations in R1¥{r *} on the x-axis at (a, 0, 0) (a∈Z), such that the length of each link becomes two. Leave the relations that have no link with the other relations in R1. In a similar way, locate the relations in R2¥{r *} on the y-axis. For each Ci, identify R’s subset Ri that is self-symmetric with respect to Ci. Then, among the relations in Ri, identify the relation r * that has ...

In this paper, we analyzed self-organizing map of conceptual and semantic relations for noun, discussing the semantic distinction between conceptual nouns for natural language processing and syntax acquisition, summarizing the lexical meaning and a detailed description of semantic lexical tagging of nouns. Our result reflects the noun-attribute associations and focuses on the conceptual relatio...

Line drawing maps are frequently used by people to exchange location information. Mobile robots in the future are expected to be able to communicate with people and thus to localize themselves using such maps. We therefore develop a method of outdoor localization using a stereo camera and a line drawing building map. Omnidirectional range data obtained by a stereo camera and a pan-tilt unit are...