The Effectiveness of Group Training Concepts Choice Theory on Cognitive Emotional Regulation Strategies and Social Adjustment in HIV-Positive Prisoners

This study presents original evidence that abstract and concrete concepts are organized and represented differently in the mind, based on analyses of thousands of concepts in publicly available data sets and computational resources. First, we show that abstract and concrete concepts have differing patterns of association with other concepts. Second, we test recent hypotheses that abstract conce...

A new cognitive approach to religion is bringing fresh insights to our understanding of how religious concepts are maintained, acquired and used to motivate and direct actions. This approach suggests that seemingly extraordinary thoughts and behaviours can be supported by quite ordinary cognition and may thus be termed 'natural'. Simultaneously, this research is expanding the domain of concepts...

Vygotsky posed a variety of meaningful ideas for education in his short life. This paper focuses on everyday concepts and mathematical concepts or scientific concepts from his theory, reorganizing these ideas according to a new idea of sublated concepts. Using a series of interviews from a third grade fraction class in Japan, the paper discusses how everyday and mathematical concepts arise out ...

1) The facility with numbers and calculations, 2) The art of avoiding unnecessary calculations, 3) Memorizing formulas and theorems, 4) Understanding and finding proofs, 5) Solving problems with well-described procedures, 6) Solving problems for which there are no well-described procedures, 7) Understanding abstract mathematical concepts, 8) Creating new mathematical concepts, and clarifying an...

This mixed-methods study investigates the effects of student attitudes and behaviours on the outcomes of learning mathematics with computer tools. A computer tool was used to help students develop the mathematical concept of function. In the whole sample (N = 521), student attitudes could account for a 3.4 point difference in test scores between individuals on a 10-point scale. General attitude...

Symmetry (similarity under transformation) in sensorimotor data streams can be used to derive and represent concepts from percepts, and exploit them in a cognitive framework. This entails finding mechanisms to extract symmetries out of sensorimotor data and convert them into intuitive representations; ”intuitive” implying that the representations created should have a semantic meaning to them. ...

We study learning scenarios in which multiple learners are involved and “nature” imposes some constraints that force the predictions of these learners to behave coherently. This is natural in cognitive learning situations, where multiple learning problems co-exist but their predictions are constrained to produce a valid sentence, image or any other domain representation. Our theory addresses tw...

In this Focus Issue, two interrelated concepts, namely, deterministic chaos and cognitive abilities, are discussed.

One of the key goals of network administration is configuring a network that is always operating at an optimal state. However, this goal is increasingly time-consuming and expensive as networks increase in size and complexity. One path to offsetting the increasing cost is in the implementation of a network that manages itself – known as a cognitive network. This paper will introduce the concept...