Decision Support Systems (DSS) derive information from ingested data streams and present it to cognitive agents (usually human users) for exploitation. DSS generally have multiple data sources available, each having its own characteristics. Users must select from among these data sources based upon their perceived processing needs. This we call the Information Source Selection (ISS) Problem. It...

INTRODUCTION Growing evidence suggests that physical activity, healthy diets, and social engagement may promote cognitive health. Popular media helps establish the public health agenda. In this study, we describe articles about cognitive health in top-circulating women's and men's magazines. METHODS To identify articles on cognitive health, we manually searched all pages of 4 top-circulating ...

Adolescents may seek to understand family conflict by seeking out confidants. However, little is known about whom adolescents seek, whether and how such support helps youth, and the factors that predict which sources are sought. This chapter offers a conceptual model of guided cognitive reframing that emphasizes the behavioral, cognitive, and affective implications of confidant support as well ...

Once cognitive biological phenomena are recognized as necessarily having ‘dual’ information sources, it is easy to show that the information theory chain rule implies isolating coresident information sources from crosstalk requires more metabolic free energy than permitting correlation. This provides conditions for an evolutionary exaptation leading to dynamic global broadcasts of interacting c...

M e t h o d s Data sources: Cochrane Dementia and Cognitive Improvement Group Specialized Register, which included citations obtained from 24 databases. The Eisai Inc. drug company was contacted for unpublished studies. Study selection and assessment: Randomized, placebo-controlled trials of donepezil in patients with vascular cognitive impairment or vascular or mixed dementia. Methodological q...

Deep cognitive activation occurs when a thought is so accessible as to have measurable effects on behavior or judgement, but is yet not consciously reportable. This state of mind has unique properties mimicking some characteristics of the psychoanalytic unconscious, but following theoretically from a consideration of processes of cognitive activation. The sources and consequences of deep cognit...

objective: previous studies have shown that menopausal women are more likely to experience depression. however, there are few studies that investigated the cognitive mechanism that may have a role in developing depression in menopausal women. thus, the present study aimed to investigate the mediating role of life satisfaction in the relation between subjective evaluation of stressors and depres...

INTRODUCTION Limited research has examined primary care providers' communication with patients about maintaining cognitive functioning. Our study's objective was to compare the perceptions of consumers and primary care providers related to beliefs and communication practices about lifestyle behaviors beneficial for overall health and for maintaining cognitive functioning. METHODS In 2009, we ...