The right temporo-parietal junction (RTPJ) is consistently implicated in two cognitive domains, attention and social cognitions. We conducted multi-modal connectivity-based parcellation to investigate potentially separate functional modules within RTPJ implementing this cognitive dualism. Both task-constrained meta-analytic coactivation mapping and task-free resting-state connectivity analysis ...

Researchers studying complex cognition have grown increasingly interested in mapping symbolic cognitive architectures onto subsymbolic brain models. Such a mapping seems essential for understanding cognition under all but the most extreme viewpoints (namely, that cognition consists exclusively of digitally implemented rules; or instead, involves no rules whatsoever). Making this mapping reduces...

In this paper we present Drama, a distributed model of analogical mapping that integrates semantic and structural constraints on constructing analogies. Specifically, Drama uses holographic reduced representations (Plate, 1994), a distributed representation scheme, to model the effects of structure and meaning on human performance of analogical mapping. Drama is compared to three symbolic model...

Mapmaker Maps are essential while navigating through the environment. For instance, you might stop to consult a street map while traveling through Manhattan. Other maps are less concrete, however. Abstract spatial maps, for example, allow you to walk through a dark but familiar bedroom without bumping into the walls and furniture. This ability to mentally organize space is referred to as cognit...

Accomplishing even simple tasks depend on neuronal circuits to configure how incoming sensory stimuli map onto responses. Controlling these stimulus-response (SR) mapping rules relies on a cognitive control network comprising the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). Single neurons within the ACC convey information about currently relevant SR mapping rules and signal unexpected action outcomes, whic...

The local community is a complex socio-economic system, and its ability to function for an indefinitely long period of time (viability) is not investigated sufficiently today. The purpose of the research was, using the cognitive mapping, propose to the local community management developing their own management strategies to ensure its viability. Considering the weakly structured subject area of...

An assumption implied by much of the literature in information systems (IS) research is that people’s interpretations of technology at an early stage of use influence the way in which the technology gets adapted in the organization. Despite this acknowledgment, little insight is provided of how these interpretations can be elicited and only few studies suggest methods for doing so. In this pape...

In this paper we apply a formal ontological framework in order to deconstruct two prominent approaches to navigation from cognitive robotics, the Spatial Semantic Hierarchy of Kuipers and the Route Graph of Krieg-Brückner, Werner and others. The ontological framework is based on our current work on ontology specification, where we are investigating Masolo et al.’s Descriptive Ontology for Lingu...