Conditional inference patterns are influenced by the availability of counterexamples. We show that aside of the semantic counterexamples that are stored in long-term memory, there is an additional pool of counterexamples that stem from conversational implicatures. Experiment 1 showed that for young adults the retrieval of pragmatic counterexamples requires working memory resources. Experiment 2...

Memory is essential to many cognitive tasks including language. Apart from empirical studies of memory effects on language acquisition and use, there lack sufficient evolutionary explorations on whether a high level of memory capacity is prerequisite for language and whether language origin could influence memory capacity. In line with evolutionary theories that natural selection refined langua...

Cultural evolution occurs through the transmission of cultural traits, and we consider the meme as the unit of cultural transmission. We construct an agent-based model representing the processes by which cultural transmission occurs and to link these to the community-scale phenomena arising from agent interactions. We base our model on small communities of e-Puck robots, and following work on m...

In 2023, the medical community of Russia is celebrating two closely related significant historical events. They are 115th anniversary from birth B.V. Petrovsky, an outstanding personality in Russian medicine, Academician Academy Sciences, and 60th foundation Petrovsky National Research Center Surgery.The article presents little-known materials to cultural heritage keeping memory him. The paper ...

As an indicator that shows the existence and the structure of a society, cultural heritage is a concept that is fundamentally based on the transmission of cultural values and objects among the generations. This feature of the concept requires effective use of information and communication technologies (ICT). Libraries, archives and museums are cultural institutions that efficiently use ICT in o...