Forthcoming chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Spontaneous Thought 2 Where do spontaneous thoughts come from? It may be surprising that the seemingly straightforward answers " from the mind " or " from the brain " are in fact an incredibly recent, modern understanding of the origins of spontaneous thought. For nearly all of human history, our thoughts – especially the most sudden, insightful, an...

Science hackathons can help academics, particularly those in the early stage of their careers, to build collaborations and write research proposals.

This paper presents the research project IFUN Interest and Interdisciplinary Instruction in Science and Mathematics. As researchers in mathematics and science education we are basically interested in how students’ learning and understanding in these subjects might be improved. Many research studies indicate that students’ interest in science and mathematics declines during lower secondary schoo...

In the development of humanoids, both the appearance and behavior of the robots are significant issues. However, designing the robot’s appearance, especially to give it a humanoid one, was always a role of the industrial designer. To tackle the problem of appearance and behavior, two approaches are necessary: one from robotics and the other from cognitive science. The approach from robotics tri...

WikiSilo is a tool for theorizing across interdisciplinary fields such as Cognitive Science using a specific vocabulary and structure. It is designed to show if a particular cognitive theory is complete and coherent at multiple levels of discourse, and commensurable with and relevant to a wider domain of cognition. WikiSilo is also a minimalist theory and methodology about effectively doing sci...

We outline the notion of trust and two formal models developed to solve the trust problem in multi-agent systems. The limitations of these models, and their similarities with classical AI models (which stress centrally-stored representations of the world) are examined. We then consider trust as a Distributed Cognition problem, and suggest an agent design framework, inspired by Distributed Cogni...

New statistic based models provide a wide area of prediction equipments for different science areas. Among these fields biology have just entered the contest of interdisciplinary sciences. Drug discovery is a long and expensive process which could be decreased with theoretical approaches. In this study, 500 reported assayed anti cancer molecules were extracted from Science Direct articles, sket...

Objective. To evaluate pharmacy and nursing student self-perceptions of interdisciplinary communication skills, faculty member perceptions of interdisciplinary communication skills, and changes in those skills after increasing the interdisciplinary education content. Design. Two cohorts of pharmacy and nursing (bachelors of science in nursing, BSN) students in respective, semester-long research...

OBJECTIVES This paper addresses the issue of interdisciplinary collaboration between medical and non-medical professions in health and social care. The introduction defines basic terms such as interdisciplinary cooperation, interdisciplinary team, and health and social care. Additionally, it highlights the significance and contribution of interdisciplinary collaboration in the care of the patie...