Older and younger adults' abilities to use context information rapidly during ambiguity resolution were investigated. In Experiments 1 and 2, younger and older adults heard ambiguous words (e.g., fires) in sentences where the preceding context supported either the less frequent or more frequent meaning of the word. Both age groups showed good context use in offline tasks, but only young adults ...

The reality of analogies between words is refuted by noone (e.g., I walked is to to walk as I laughed is to to laugh, noted I walked : to walk :: I laughed : to laugh). But computational linguists seem to be quite dubious about analogies between sentences: they would not be enough numerous to be of any use. We report experiments conducted on a multilingual corpus to estimate the number of analo...

A great deal of research has been conducted on how humans reason about probability, yet it remains unknown what mental computations support this ability. Research on the development of the Approximate Number Sense (ANS) has shown that performance in a magnitude (i.e., estimations of integers) discrimination task is well fit by a psychophysical model (Halberda & Feigenson, 2008). Whether or not ...

Valentine’s face-space suggests that faces are represented in a psychological multidimensional space according to their perceived properties. However, the proposed framework was initially designed as an account of invariant facial features only, and explanations for dynamic features representation were neglected. In this paper we propose, develop and evaluate a computational model for a twofold...

As of today, multiple diseases have been associated with shape and volumetric changes in the brain’s ventricular system. Undoubtedly, the transport mechanisms in the cerebrospinal fluid play an important role, but the knowledge about the related phenomena is still limited. Computational fluid dynamics calculations, which may shed light on the underlying mechanisms, need detailed, topologically ...

The paper concerns the socio-spatial dynamics of imitation within a computational model of land use selection and change. Specifically, it reports investigations of the success of imitation in relation to alternative ways of choosing a course of action, in the context of different degrees and kinds of spatio-temporal heterogeneity. Simulation experiments with the model are the main method emplo...

Environmental problems have been considered very important for a long time. We believe that they should be examined from an interdisciplinary view so as to reach a solution because they have been caused as the consequence of complex interactions among various factors. This paper proposes a new model termed ColorChanger. By using this model, we aim to explore the nature of ecological problems be...

This study proposes a computational model of the discourse segments in lyrics to understand and to model the structure of lyrics. To test our hypothesis that discourse segmentations in lyrics strongly correlate with repeated patterns, we conduct the first large-scale corpus study on discourse segments in lyrics. Next, we propose the task to automatically identify segment boundaries in lyrics an...