The two-stage theory of lexical production distinguishes the retrieval of lemmas from the subsequent retrieval of the forms of words. The information made available by lemma retrieval includes semantic and grammatical details that are specific to a particular word, but not the direct specification of its phonological or orthographic form. This theory makes very strong predictions regarding the ...

Patterns of suicidal behavior vary among cultures and along gender. Young South Asian immigrant women attempt suicide four times more often than young Dutch women. This article explores multidisciplinary explanations for suicidal behavior in this group. The interconnection of Durkheimian concepts of social integration and regulation with ecological insights into family relations and psychologic...

Previous research has yielded important understandings of how sexual minorities adjust to living in a heteronormative culture, but scholarly critiques of assimilation and Merton’s research on adaptations to deviance suggest value in examining whether there are distinct types of adaptation. Applying Merton’s definition of adaptations in anomic environments suggests that different patterns can be...

Although the hippocampus has not typically been identified as part of the language and aphasia circuit, recent evidence suggests that the hippocampus is closely related to naming, word priming, and anomic aphasia. A 59-year old woman with limbic encephalitis of possible autoimmune etiology, after recovery of consciousness, presented with severe memory impairment in both anterograde and retrogra...

The case of a patient with selective left hemispheric medial and lateral temporal lobe damage is described. The patient was of slightly supra-average intelligence and had no problems in normal memory functions, but was severely anomic with respect to people's names. One month post-onset, this deficit held for names of colleagues and friends she had gotten to know during the last 10 years prior ...

The neural correlates of identification and name retrieval have proved difficult to characterise because both occur highly automatically in normal language processing. Thus, although some evidence points to the left anterior temporal cortex (ATC) as a brain region underlying these functions, its relative role in semantic and lexical retrieval processes is still a matter of debate. Positron emis...

A formal framework for specifying and developing agents/robots must handle not only knowledge and sensing actions, but also time and concurrency. Researchers have extended the situation calculus to handle knowledge and sensing actions. Other researchers have addressed the issue of adding time and concurrent actions. Here both of these features are combined into a unified logical theory of knowl...

Software architecture constitutes the primary design of a software system. Consequently, architectural design decisions involved in architecture design have a key impact on the system in such aspects as future maintenance costs, resulting quality, and timeliness. However, the applied knowledge employed and the design decisions taken by soihvare architects are not explicitly represented in the d...

•Describing actions and their effects in a dynamic system •A set of first-order axioms, mainly includes: Dap (precondition axioms): For each A(~x), Poss(A(~x), s) ≡ φA(~x, s) Dssa (successor state axioms): For each fluent F (~y, s), F (~y, do(a, s)) ≡ ∨ iψ + i (~y, a, s) ∨ F (~y, s) ∧ ¬( ∨ j ψ − j (~y, a, s)) DS0 (an initial theory): All facts hold in the initial situation S0 Duna (unique name ...

We propose an action formalism that is based on description logics (DLs) and may be viewed as an instance of the Situation Calculus (SitCalc). In particular, description logic concepts can be used for describing the state of the world, and the preand post-conditions of actions. The main advantage of such a combination is that, on the one hand, the expressive power for describing world states an...