In this essay I argue that a broadly Kantian strategy for demonstrating and explaining the existence, semantic structure, and psychological function of essentially non-conceptual content can also provide an intelligible and 10 defensible bottom-up theory of the foundations of rationality in minded animals. Otherwise put, if I am correct, then essentially non-conceptual content constitutes the s...

Consonants and vowels differ in the extent to which they are perceived categorically. We use a Bayesian model of speech perception to explore factors that might cause this difference. Simulations show that perception of vowels, fricatives, and stop consonants can all be captured under a single model in which listeners use their knowledge of phonetic categories to infer the sound that a speaker ...

In the semantics of programming languages one can view programs as state transformers, or as predicate transformers. Recently the author has introduced ‘stateand-effect’ triangles which capture this situation categorically, involving an adjunction between stateand predicate-transformers. The current paper exploits a classical result in category theory, part of Jon Beck’s monadicity theorem, to ...

We will study the existence of different types of the Riesz Decomposition Property for the lexicographic product of two partially ordered groups. A special attention will be paid to the lexicographic product of the group of the integers with an arbitrary po-group. Then we apply these results to the study of n-perfect pseudo effect algebras. We show that the category of strong n-perfect pseudo-e...

All people share knowledge of cultural stereotypes of social groups--but what are the origins of these stereotypes? We examined whether stereotypes form spontaneously as information is repeatedly passed from person to person. As information about novel social targets was passed down a chain of individuals, what initially began as a set of random associations evolved into a system that was simpl...

Scott’s information systems provide a categorically equivalent, intensional description of Scott domains and continuous functions. Following a well established pattern in denotational semantics, we define a linear version of information systems, providing a model of intuitionistic linear logic (a newSeely category), with a “set-theoretic” interpretation of exponentials that recovers Scott conti...

The efficiency of final classification score as a selective criterion for improving genetically the twelve components of type descriptively classified by HolsteinFriesian Association of America was examined. Comparisons were between selection on final score and direct selection on each descriptive trait, and between selection on final score and selection on several least squares indexes includi...

Copyright © 2006, Idea Group Inc., distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI is prohibited. This article (further referred to as Math-I), and the next one (further referred to as Math-II, see p. 359), form a mathematical companion to the article in this encyclopedia on Generic Model Management (further referred to as GenMMt, see p.258 ). Articles Math-I and II ...

We examined the interactions between visual recognition memory, working memory, and categorization by examining 6-month-old infants' (N = 168) memory for individual items in a categorized list (e.g., images of dogs or cats). In Experiments 1 and 2, infants were familiarized with 6 different cats or dogs, presented one at a time on a series of 15-s familiarization trials. When the test occurred ...