Spatial Cognition is an interdisciplinary research area that among other things serves as a testbed for numerous approaches to knowledge representation and for results from artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, soft computing, geography, biological cybernetics, and robotics. Spatial and temporal granularity are of particular relevance in spatial cognition for at least two different rea...

Perception: Intuitively, perception is the process of becoming aware of physical objects or phenomena through the senses. However, to define it as an observable phenomenon without resorting to a highly subjective concept such as awareness, one must include additional measurable criteria. A less involved and more up to date view is that perception is the mental function by means of which the phy...

Understanding the human neuro-anatomy of face recognition is a long-standing goal of Cognitive Neuroscience. Studies of patients with face recognition impairment following brain damage (i.e., acquired prosopagnosia) have revealed the specificity of face recognition, the importance and nature of holistic/configural perception of individual faces, and the distribution of this function in the vent...

This study aims at investigating the perception and production of the English nasals /m/ and /n/ in syllable-final position by 20 Brazilian EFL learners and 3 native speakers of American English. Perception was assessed by means of both a discrimination and an identification test. Production data was collected by means of a Sentence Reading Test. The results from the perception tests revealed t...

The purpose of this research was to analyzing the perception and technical knowledge of wheat farmers in shoushtar township, Khouzestan province, Iran regarding organic farming products. The research method employed was correlative-descriptive. The population consisted of wheat farmers in Shoushtar township Khuzestan Province of Iran. A random sample of wheat farmers (n = 163) was selected. The...

background: injection of local anesthesia is one of the most important reasons for development of avoidance behavior in children. efforts have been performed to decrease pain perception of injection. the present research evaluated the effect of cooling the injection site on pain perception before infiltration of local anesthetics. materials and methods: a prospective single-blind crossover clin...

Studies on human visual perception measurement for perceptual robotics are described. The visual perception is mathematically modelled as a probabilistic process obtaining and interpreting visual data from an environment. The measurement involves visual openness perception in virtual reality, which has direct implications for navigation issues of actual autonomous robotics. The perception is qu...

Action perception links have been argued to support the emergence of action understanding, but their role in infants' perception of distal goals has not been fully investigated. The current experiments address this issue. During the development of means-end actions, infants shift their focus from the means of the action to the distal goal. In Experiment One, we evaluated whether this same shift...