Flexibility Linda B. Smith Human intelligence reveals both remarkable stability and nimble flexibility. Stability emerges from the incorporation of the past into the present. Flexibility, in turn, requires an abandoment of (or selection among) past ways, a shifting of responses to meet new circumstances. All of cognitive science, one way or another, is concerned with processes of stability and/...

This paper presents JUDGEMAP2 model for judgment based on DUAL cognitive architecture. Context is considered like the content of WM that comprises both some external elements from the surrounding environment and some internal memories elicited from the LTM. The paper focuses on the mechanisms of construction of the dynamic content of the WM. In JUDGEMAP2, the mechanism responsible for building ...

The 4D/RCS Reference Model Architecture for Unmanned Vehicle Systems provides a methodology for conceptualizing, designing, engineering, integrating, and testing intelligent systems software for vehicle systems with any degree of autonomy. Many of the components of this architecture require the integration of cognitive functions to provide this autonomy. KEEL (Knowledge Enhanced Electronic Logi...

near-fault ground motions with long-period pulses can place severe demands on structures near an active fault. these pulse-type ground motions can be represented by pulse sequences with simple shapes. half-sinusoidal pulse sequences are used to approximate recorded ground motions and dynamic responses of sdof system under the excitation of these pulse sequences are studied. four cases are consi...

All psychodynamic theories of personality and psychopathology are based on the notion of conflict involving unconscious forces. In classical Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the conflict is between primitive sexual and aggressive impulses arising from the id, and the demands of external reality, and of conscience, processed respectively by the ego and the superego. The sexual and aggressive impu...

This paper explores how a general cognitive architecture can pragmatically facilitate the development and exploration of interactive music interfaces on a mobile platform. To this end we integrated the Soar cognitive architecture into the mobile music meta-environment urMus. We develop and demonstrate four artificial agents which use diverse learning mechanisms within two mobile music interface...

Cognitive experiments indicate the presence of discontinuities in brain dynamics during high-level cognitive processing. Nonlinear dynamic theory of brains pioneered by Freeman explains the experimental findings through the theory of metastability and edge-of-criticality in cognitive systems, which are key properties associated with robust operation and fast and reliable decision making. Recent...

As a key component of urban rail transit systems, communications-based train control (CBTC) is an automated train control system using train-ground communications to ensure efficient operation of rail vehicles. In addition to CBTC systems, passenger information systems (PISs) are adopted in urban rail transit systems to improve quality of service (QoS) offered to customers. The interference bet...