The only reason we remember things is to make better decisions. What is memory? Memory can be defined as any physical change that carries information about the historical past. Typically, in animal systems, memory is stored in physical changes inside How these physical changes affect information processing depends on how those systems compute information processing. In practice, memory needs to...

If a theory of concept composition aspires to psychological plausibility, it may first need to address several preliminary issues associated with naturally occurring human concepts: content variability, multiple representational forms, and pragmatic constraints. Not only do these issues constitute a significant challenge for explaining individual concepts, they pose an even more formidable chal...

Representational measurement is, on the one hand, an attempt to understand the nature of empirical observations that can be usefully recoded, in some reasonably unique fashion, in terms of familiar mathematical structures. The most common of these representing structures are the ordinary real numbers ordered in the usual way and with the operations of addition, +, and/or multiplication, ·. Intu...

This paper sets out a view about the explanatory role of representational content and advocates one approach to naturalising content - to giving a naturalistic account of what makes an entity a representation and in virtue of what it has the content it does. It argues for pluralism about the metaphysics of content and suggests that a good strategy is to ask the content question with respect to ...

Abstract There is accumulating evidence that distinct forms of domain-general inhibition underlie the selection lexical candidates from among co-activated representations in single-word production. It less clear whether similar control processes are engaged resolution syntactic conflict sentence This study assessed relative contribution three types inhibitory operating at different stages infor...