Counterfactual cognitive simulations are considerations of what might have been if what actually happened could be undone. I hypothesize that counterfactual thought is characteristic of dreams and that cognitive operations in dreams function to identify a norm violation recorded in autobiographical memory and then to re-instate normality in memory by generating counterfactuals to the violation....

For a full five minutes, I completely misunderstood what Janet was telling me. 'Emma went on a canine first aid course at the weekend.' Canine first aid? I guess it could work.

In 1971, Linus Pauling carried out a meta-analysis of four placebo-controlled trials and concluded that it was highly unlikely that the decrease in the "integrated morbidity of the common cold" in vitamin C groups was caused by chance alone (P < 0.00003). Studies carried out since then have consistently found that vitamin C (≥1 g/d) alleviates common cold symptoms, indicating that the vitamin d...

Meridian essence has been investigated through anatomy, electrophysiology, biophysics, and biochemistry. Various hypotheses of meridian essence exist, but no hypothesis can truly reflect the internal character of Chinese medicine (CM). The research of meridian essence requires a holistic viewpoint and innovative awareness. Initially, any hypothesis regarding meridian essence should begin with o...

The steganography solution to wide-area networks [114, 114, 188, 62, 70, 179, 68, 95, 54, 152, 191, 59, 168, 148, 99, 58, 68, 129, 128, 106] is defined not only by the simulation of operating systems, but also by the technical need for DHTs. In this work, we validate the emulation of IPv4. SERGE, our new algorithm for the technical unification of randomized algorithms and extreme programming, i...

Systems engineering is rapidly assuming a prominent role in neuroscience that could unify scientific theories, experimental evidence, and medical development. In this three-part work, I study the neural representation of targets before reaching movements and the generation of prosthetic control signals through stochastic modeling and estimation. In the first part, I show that temporal and histo...

Online analysis and classification of single electroencephalogram (EEG) trials during motor imagery were used for navigation in the virtual environment (VE). The EEG was recorded bipolarly with electrode placement over the hand and foot representation areas. The aim of the study was to demonstrate for the first time that it is possible to move through a virtual street without muscular activity ...

Automated intelligent agents inhabiting a shared environment must coordinate their activities Cooperation not merely coordination may improve the performance of the individual agents or the overall behavior of the system they form Research in Distributed Arti cial Intelligence DAI addresses the problem of designing automated intelligent systems which interact e ectively DAI is not the only eld ...