In peer assessment, the awarding grades might not accurately reflect the students’ achievement due to potential rating bias or individual abilities. The proposed methodology aims at aggregating students’ ratings to reduce personal bias using agent negotiation. We consider individual learning styles of assessors into the negotiation process and show by an illustrative example and an experiment h...

The thesis is an exploration of the relations between know-how, abilities, and ordinary knowledge of facts. It is shown that there is a distinctively practical sort of know-how and a corresponding interpretation of 'S knows how to 0', and that this special sort of know-how, while possessing representational content, is not simply ordinary knowledge-that. The view rests on a novel distinction be...

Reports that exposure to music causes benefits in nonmusical domains have received widespread attention in the mainstream media. Such reports have also influenced public policy. The so-called "Mozart effect" actually refers to two relatively distinct phenomena. One concerns short-term increases in spatial abilities that are said to occur from listening to music composed by Mozart. The other ref...

We show that a number of problems of modern cosmology may be addressed and solved in the framework of multidimensional gravity with high-order curvature invariants, without invoking other fields. As applications of this approach, we mention primordial inflation and particle production after it; description of the modern accelerated stage of the Universe with stable compact extra dimensions; con...

ne of the more praiseworthy trends in the recent history of psychology has been an increased illingness among cognitive and differential psychologists to seek inspiration in theories and echniques developed outside their own fields. In particular, workers in these two, traditionally eparate fields now realise that they have mutual interests and that there is much to be gained by tudying the lit...

Over the decades, creativity and imagination research developed in parallel, but they surprisingly rarely intersected. This paper introduces a new theoretical model of creative visual imagination, which bridges creativity and imagination research, as well as presents a new psychometric instrument, called the Test of Creative Imagery Abilities (TCIA), developed to measure creative imagery abilit...