Multiple lines of research in cognitive science have brought insight on the role that internal (cognitive) representations of situational context play in framing decision making and in differentiating expert versus novice decision performance. However, no single framework has emerged to integrate these lines of research, particularly the views from narrative reasoning research and those from si...

—We present the MobiLife approach to contextual adaptation of multimodal mobile applications for individual users. In particular, we show that integration of user-interface adaptation, contextualization and personalization components of the MobiLife system architecture enables a personal and situational context-dependent provisioning of applications such as the 'Multimedia Infotainer'. User pre...

Word learning has traditionally examined separately the role of constraints provided by the visual context (e.g. crosssituational learning) and the linguistic context (e.g. syntactic bootstrapping). We suggest that the combined investigation of these learning scenarios is important: Firstly, to determine whether cross-situational word learning applies when words are presented in sentences and, ...

Recent armed conflicts highlight the military’s need to develop new strategies that assist in situational assessment and planning for combating insurgent operations. Although insurgent warfare tactics have been used for thousands of years, the degree to which they have been recently employed presents an especially significant challenge. One of the challenges the intelligence community faces in ...

Previous research investigated the contributions of target objects, situational context and movement kinematics to action prediction separately. The current study addresses how these three factors combine in the prediction of observed actions. Participants observed an actor whose movements were constrained by the situational context or not, and object-directed or not. After several steps, parti...

PURPOSE This study was aimed at determining the role of prosody and situational context in children's understanding of expressive utterances. Which one of these 2 cues will help children grasp the speaker's intention? Do children exhibit a "contextual bias" whereby they ignore prosody, such as the "lexical bias" found in other studies (M. Friend & J. Bryant, 2000)? METHOD In the first experim...

tendency to najwa (religious whispering) and praying to god has been present in human soul from the time immemorial. in other words, the background of human’s god-seeking tendencies has been confirmed through historical and archeological excavations. attachment to the infinite source of being and coming to the divine threshold is a process that can be possible through prayers and that's th...

When looking for the referents of novel nouns, adults and young children are sensitive to cross-situational statistics (Yu and Smith, 2007; Smith and Yu, 2008). In addition, the linguistic context that a word appears in has been shown to act as a powerful attention mechanism for guiding sentence processing and word learning (Landau and Gleitman, 1985; Altmann and Kamide, 1999; Kako and Trueswel...