Recognition priming and distance estimation were used to investigate the mental representation of knowledge acquired from maps. In Experiment 1, recognition priming showed that cities close in route distance primed each other more than cities far in route distance, even when Euclidean distance was equated. Experiment 2 showed that this finding was robust and not an artifact of the way subjects ...

Adolescent females in this study knew more about their previously diagnosed sexually transmitted infections (STIs) than about other STIs, including ones that they had unknowingly contracted. They appeared to learn about STIs primarily after diagnosis, too late for effective prevention, early detection, or prompt treatment of their disease.

Sin ce 1981 the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (A IDS) has beco me the primary health care issue in this nation. Psychiatrists ha ve had a central role in caring for A IDS patients: they have been asked to evaluate and treat patie nt s with neuropsychiatric manifestations of AIDS and emot iona l react ions to the illn ess itself, as well as to treat those who are fearful of acquiri ng A ID...

This paper presents an approach to derive a colleague-oriented interpretation of knowledge which is obtained from several sources and includes also knowledge about relations between experts and domain objects, relations between experts, and even an expert’s opinion about himself. The method calculates the amount of support, which any knowledge source gets from his colleagues, and then it uses k...

BARLOW, STEVEN TODD. Spatial Knowledge Acquired Through Navigation In A LargeScale Virtual Environment. (Under the direction of Sharolyn Converse.) The effects of changes in elevation, route distance, route complexity, and non-spatial information on memory for a virtual environment were investigated. Thirty college students learned the layout of a two-story virtual environment through a series ...

Apraxia caused by left hemispheric stroke typically impairs skilled sequential movements. After stroke, apraxic patients need to reacquire motor skills by motor learning. The current study assessed for the first time incidental motor sequence learning in apraxic patients. Forty-eight human subjects (henceforth called "patients") with left hemispheric stroke affecting the middle cerebral artery ...

Teenage schoolchildren are often sexually active and first experiments with drugs can occur at this age. A questionnaire survey of the knowledge and source of information about the acquired immune deficiency syndrome was carried out on 232 15-year-olds at a school in Fife. The results showed that this younger age group is well-informed about AIDS, particularly methods of transmission of the vir...

We have constructed a set of ontologies modelled on conceptual structures elicited from several domain experts. Protocols were collected from various experts who advise on the selection/ specification and purchase of PCs. These protocols were analysed from the perspective of both the processes and the domain knowledge to reflect each expert’s inherent conceptualisation of the domain. We are par...

Web search has become an everyday activity for millions of people. Unfortunately, there is a number of well known problems associated with it. Two of those problems are to express an information need as a set of search terms and to actually present only the most relevant matches for this query once the search has been performed. This paper tackles those problems for limited domains where the am...

The automatic acquisition of usable domain knowledge is a challenging issue. Such knowledge can be employed to assist a user in searching a document collection. This can be done by suggesting query modification options based on the knowledge uncovered by analyzing the document collection. We acquire such knowledge by simply exploiting the documents’ markup structure. This gives us a domain mode...