25.1 Goals The purpose of this program is to conduct research relevant to the improvement of broadcast television systems. Some of the work is carried out in the Research Laboratory of Electronics and some in other parts of M.I.T., including the Media Laboratory. Audience research is carried out by Prof. W.R. Neuman in the Political Science Department. Reporting is by means of theses and publis...

The patient-physician relationship can be conceived as a process of structuring an ill-structured emotional-cognitive problem. So, new methods should be developed in order to capture the relations among emotions and cognitions, and physicians should be educated to recognize the influence of emotions on medical decision-making. The paper describes GRASP, an e-learning application based upon the ...

A key unresolved question in cognitive science is whether the brain uses asynchronous or synchronous patterns of information transmission. Using an auditory learning task combined with electrophysiological recordings, we reveal for the first time that cognitive plasticity during learning transforms an asynchronous into a synchronous transmission pattern to achieve rapid, error-free performance....

Thirty NF1-patients (mean age 11.7 years, SD = 3.3) and 30 healthy controls (mean age 12.5 years, SD = 3.1) were assessed on social skills, autistic traits, hyperactivity-inattention, emotional problems, conduct problems, and peer problems. Cognitive control, information processing speed, and social information processing were measured using 5 computer tasks. GLM analyses of variance showed sig...

AIMS To determine whether uncomplicated Type 2 diabetes is associated with impairment of cognitive function and information processing ability. METHODS Thirty-eight participants with uncomplicated Type 2 diabetes and 38 non-diabetic controls were studied. The two groups were comparable for age and premorbid intellectual ability, and did not have other medical disorders likely to affect cognit...

There has been considerable debate in the literature about the relative merits of information processing versus dynamical approaches to understanding cognitive processes. In this article, we explore the relationship between these two styles of explanation using a model agent evolved to solve a relational categorization task. Specifically, we separately analyze the operation of this agent using ...

Cognitive science has largely assumed we can understand the mind without taking consciousness into account. From an evolutionary perspective, this is not a plausible assumption. The sophisticated display of multiple types of information characteristic of consciousness could not have evolved unless these display formats were functionally integrated into the mind's information processing system. ...

The Scanner-Display system, called SCAD, is a device for communicating between computers and pictures. In its present form it can accept transparencies, measure the transmission at various points on the transparency, and convert this to a digital number. It can also accept digital data and produce pictures from it. The device is a transducer between digital computers and pictures. SCAD can be o...

The Cognitive Information Processing Group works on problems related to the analysis, manipulation, and simulation of the sense data in certain human perceptual and cognitive processes. Our major interest is increased understanding of visual processes; in particular, the ways by which humans can recognize and interpret pictorial information. Thus we do research on electronic methods for simplif...