Imagination is a fundamental ability of humans which resides in the cognitive system. We propose a connectionist model that generates images from a given sentence after trained on a dataset of image-sentence pairs. The model is composed of language model and image model that are connected with a latent variable constrained by a prior distribution. The latent variable encodes dual information an...

To understand the communication challenges ahead, one must first understand how completely absent biomedical rejuvenation is from the wildest dreams of the general population. Looking back over the short history of Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) advocacy, I find it ironic that some very early critics dismissed this journal’s long-term predictions as ‘‘science fiction.’’ ...

search Assistant to the Burden Mental Research Trust, and one of the particularly interesting features of the book is the comparison between the two sets of statistics. At the outset, Miss Griffiths set herself the task of investigating the imaginative content of the minds of elementary infant school children, and devised a new means of technique for this purpose. She selected thirty London, an...

The pedagogical imagination: the republican legacy in twenty-first-century French literature and film / Leon Sachs. pages cm Summary: " Study of French education and republicanism as represented in twenty-first century French literature and film " — Provided by publisher.

informative account of the journal, register, letter and minute books, and of the many other series deriving from the Society's idiosyncratic structure and practice over more than three centuries. The private archival mysteries of the Society from "lapsed certificates" and "archived papers" to "Bulloch's Roll" are revealed briefly and clearly, rendering the archive intelligible for the research...

The present experiments suggest that imagery perspective--first person (own) versus third person (observer's)--influences source-monitoring judgments. Imagination inflation (Garry, Manning, Loftus, & Sherman, 1996) occurs when imaginary experience with events is mistaken for real experience. In Experiment 1, the perspective used to visualize real past events depended on memory test wording ("re...

A grounded embodied approach to the instruction of computational abstractions provides concrete representations for characteristically abstract symbols. If the perceptual symbols that comprise a pre-defined scenario are fundamentally grounded in human behavior (e.g. walking), does the mere act of embodiment influence how these behaviors are represented in a computational artifact? Prior researc...

The astounding capacity for the human imagination to be engaged across a wide range of contexts is limitless and fundamental to our day-to-day experiences. Although processes of imagination are central to human psychological function, they rarely occupy center stage in academic discourse or empirical study within psychological and neuroscientific realms. The aim of this paper is to tackle this ...

This study aims to explore the application of STEM-I (STEM-Imagination) project-based learning activities and its effects on the effectiveness, processes, and characteristics of STEM integrative knowledge learning and imagination development for female high school students. A total of 72 female high school students were divided into 18 teams. Students were provided with a place to discuss, shar...

In the early modern era the notion of imagination was made responsible for phenomena which were later explained in terms of embryology, genetics, psychology, bacteriology or other scientific disciplines. Images, often seated in the upper abdomen (hypochondriac region) or the womb (hysteria), were regarded as powerful influences on material reality. In the course of the seventeenth and eighteent...