a r t i c l e i n f o Individuals' goal-directed activity in one situation can affect their behavior in a later, ostensibly unrelated situation. This effect can depend on whether the latter behavior is also goal-directed or is performed automatically. Three studies showed that participants' rate of speaking in the course of performing a speech shadowing task has a positive influence on the spee...

The current study used fMRI in humans to examine goal-directed navigation in an open field environment. We designed a task that required participants to encode survey-level spatial information and subsequently navigate to a goal location in either first person, third person, or survey perspectives. Critically, no distinguishing landmarks or goal location markers were present in the environment,...

This paper presents a short survey of fuzzy and neural approaches to Information Retrieval. The goal of such approaches is to de ne exible Information Retrieval Systems able to deal with the inherent vagueness and uncertainty of the retrieval process. In this survey we address if and how some approaches met their goal.

In this paper we present a short survey of fuzzy and Semantic approaches to Knowledge Extraction. The goal of such approaches is to define flexible Knowledge Extraction Systems able to deal with the inherent vagueness and uncertainty of the Extraction process. In this survey we address if and how some approaches met their goal.