A total of 1,760 females and males were assessed for cognitive social comparison processes regarding physical appearance. Participants ranged in age from middle school (7th and 8th graders) to college juniors and seniors. Multidimensional scaling techniques were used as the analytical strategy. The results revealed the existence of two primary comparison dimensions: weight/non-weight and muscle...

The traditional view has been that Cognitive Linguistics (CL) is incompatible with formalization. Cognitive linguistics is serious about embodiment and grounding, including imagery and image-schemas, force-dynamics, real-time processing, discourse considerations, mental spaces, context, and so on. It remains true that some properties of embodied language, such as context sensitivity, can not be...

Insights 1 from cognitive semantics suggest that conceptual mapping and combination processes play a role at several levels in natural language interpretation. It has been proposed by Lako (1987) and Johnson (1987) that such correspondence-making plays a role not only in communicative but in reasoning processes, and, in particular, mathematical reasoning. This proposal suggests that abstract ma...

In this paper we present our object-oriented framework jde+, which is the second implementation of our cognitive behavior-based architecture JDE. This framework uses schemas as the building block of robot applications. They are combined in dynamic hierarchies to unfold behaviors. The schema interfaces and the distributed action selection mechanism are key issues in this hierarchical composition...

This paper describes our work on integrating distributed, concurrent control in a cognitive architecture, and using it to classify perceived behaviors. We are implementing the Robot Schemas (RS) language in Soar. RS is a CSP-type programming language for robotics that controls a hierarchy of concurrently executing schemas. The behavior of every RS schema is defined using port automata. This pro...

Cognitive linguistics and experimental psychology have produced tantalizing hints that a substantial portion of language is encoded in the mind in the form of spatial representations that are grounded in perception and action. Researchers represent these spatial aspects using "image schemas" that depict verbs of motion or spatial prepositions via a 2-D layout of generic icons. In two experiment...

script theory perspective on human sexual behavior. Its basic from nonsexual aspects of life to specifically sexual experience” ceive the world as “cognitive schemas,” which he defined as: “A stories (scripts) were most satisfied with their respective scenes experienced as well as the set of expectations. This research studied the content of age schemas and different ways schematic and aschemat...