The thesis is an exploration of the relations between know-how, abilities, and ordinary knowledge of facts. It is shown that there is a distinctively practical sort of know-how and a corresponding interpretation of 'S knows how to 0', and that this special sort of know-how, while possessing representational content, is not simply ordinary knowledge-that. The view rests on a novel distinction be...

Reports that exposure to music causes benefits in nonmusical domains have received widespread attention in the mainstream media. Such reports have also influenced public policy. The so-called "Mozart effect" actually refers to two relatively distinct phenomena. One concerns short-term increases in spatial abilities that are said to occur from listening to music composed by Mozart. The other ref...

We show that a number of problems of modern cosmology may be addressed and solved in the framework of multidimensional gravity with high-order curvature invariants, without invoking other fields. As applications of this approach, we mention primordial inflation and particle production after it; description of the modern accelerated stage of the Universe with stable compact extra dimensions; con...

ne of the more praiseworthy trends in the recent history of psychology has been an increased illingness among cognitive and differential psychologists to seek inspiration in theories and echniques developed outside their own fields. In particular, workers in these two, traditionally eparate fields now realise that they have mutual interests and that there is much to be gained by tudying the lit...

Over the decades, creativity and imagination research developed in parallel, but they surprisingly rarely intersected. This paper introduces a new theoretical model of creative visual imagination, which bridges creativity and imagination research, as well as presents a new psychometric instrument, called the Test of Creative Imagery Abilities (TCIA), developed to measure creative imagery abilit...

Does music make you smarter? Music listening and music lessons have been claimed to confer intellectual advantages. Any association between music and intellectual functioning would be notable only if the benefits apply reliably to nonmusical abilities and if music is unique in producing the effects. The available evidence indicates that music listening leads to enhanced performance on a variety...

ment do not reach the university, ninety per cent do not finish the high school and sixty-five per cent do not complete the elementary grades constitutes conclusive evidence that our existing scheme of presentation is satisfying only an exceedingly small group. Economic consideration of the individual and the training necessary to enable him "to be worth his keep," demand that we ascertain very...

Added 27 Jul 2014] Many researchers work on systems that learn. Different sorts of things can be learnt, including abilities of many kinds, and applications of those abilities. Learnable abilities include (in no significant order): abilities to label, abilities to describe, abilities to predict, abilities to manipulate directly or to control indirectly, abilities to perform actions of varying c...

T he practice of nonverbal communication relies on a range of innate and developed foundational processes. One foundation underlying the use of nonverbal communication focuses on individual differences in the abilities to communicate nonverbally. This ability, or skill, approach is akin to a personality perspective in that it focuses on individual differences in the sending (encoding), receivin...

This paper discusses the difficulties of measuring modeling abilities within examinations. Modeling abilities are inherently difficult to measure since they imply cognitive processes that may not become evident in the result of a written examination. In addition, for a given problem there exists a wide variety of valid models that may just differ in the employed modeling language, technique, or...