A fundamental issue about memory and its different forms is whether learning can occur without the development of conscious knowledge of what is learned. Amnesic patients and control subjects performed a serial reaction time task, exhibiting equivalent learning of an imbedded repeating sequence as measured by gradually improving reaction times. In contrast, four tests of declarative (explicit) ...

The capability of making use of existing prior knowledge is an important challenge for Knowledge Discovery tasks. As an unsuper-vised learning task, clustering appears to be one of the tasks that more beneets might obtain from prior knowledge. In this paper, we propose a method for providing declarative prior knowledge to a hierarchical clustering system stressing the interactive component. Pre...

Translation of new knowledge into practice proceeds through 3 stages, from awareness through acceptance to adoption. Translational research focuses almost exclusively on the first 2 stages. We argue that improving the disappointing results of translation efforts will require a detailed understanding of how adoption takes place. We summarize research in cognitive science that illustrates how acc...

Declarative learning, the ability to learn facts and concepts by experience and to adapt the declarative memory structures appropriately, forms the basis of human competencies. We argue that a viable architecture for declarative learning must be able to cope with novel information, and to demonstrate four core competencies knowledge comprehension, assimilation, utilisation and accommodation. Th...

We describe the parallels between findings from cognitive science and neuroscience and Common-Sense Models in four areas: (1) Activation of illness representations by the automatic linkage of symptoms and functional changes with concepts (an integration of declarative and perceptual and procedural knowledge); (2) Action plans for the management of symptoms and disease; (3) Cognitive and behavio...

In artificial intelligence to solve the problem user require a knowledge base, consist all information related to problem domain and a method for manipulating the knowledge for finding the solution. For better result knowledge should be organized in better way. Hence, a structure for that knowledge is required. The knowledge representation techniques are divided in to two categories declarative...

This paper depicts theoretical results obtained in the line of projects related to constructing dialogue applications based on a formal cognitive model of a human-machine dialogue. One of the aims of the paper is to propose an appropriate model of question-answering dialogue, which can be used in designing relevant computer software. The theory proposes formal descriptions of declarative and pr...

Amnesic patients (n = 8), who have severely impaired declarative memory, learned a probabilistic classification task at the same rate as normal subjects (n = 16) but subsequently were impaired on transfer tests that required flexible use of their task knowledge. A second group of controls (n = 20) rated the questions on the transfer tests according to whether the questions simply reinstated the...