Cognitive Scientists have long grappled with the question how concepts are grounded in experiences. Recent years have witnessed a surge of interest in the grounding of conceptual knowledge in perceptual processes and actions. Important questions that have been part of the debate range from the necessity of grounding (from a theoretical perspective) to possible mechanisms (from an empirical pers...

The main aim of this project is the use of cognitive processes to provide intelligent behaviour to robots, so that they can: reason about what they are identifying while they are navigating, build maps where the most relevant information is included, learn in an intuitive way as human beings do, get useful information from the high amount of data obtained from sensors and to interpret them emot...

Over the past several years, the concept of automaticity of higher cognitive processes has permeated nearly all domains of psychological research. In this review, we highlight insights arising from studies in decision-making, moral judgments, close relationships, emotional processes, face perception and social judgment, motivation and goal pursuit, conformity and behavioral contagion, embodied ...

ed in Proof 3 and that ANDS reproduced in the earlier example. However, the comparison between the subject's proof and ANDS's proof of the same theorem also points up a number of dissimilarities. The first of these is that some of the subject's statements never appear in ANDS's assertion or subgoal trees. This is true, for example, of the sentence in Line c of Table 3 ("if. . . there is an M an...

Creativity depends on how people think. Obviously, it depends on many other factors as well, such as the environment, one's culture, and individual abilities (e.g., Sternberg 1988). Nonetheless, mental processes are, in our view, the essence and the engine of creative endeavors. Although there are many useful and productive approaches to understanding creativity, the creative cognition approach...

The relationship between our actions and their perceivable results is ruled by what we call the laws of nature. It is general understanding that our actions act upon real objects which react according to the laws of nature what then can be perceived. Virtual Reality Facilities (VRFs) simulate the action-perception relationship in a physically correct manner but whithout involving real objects o...

Abstract Research on cancer narratives has not contextualised emotional and cognitive processes in stages of coping. The study examined linguistic indicators affective 31 Malaysian survivors. analysis the 58,787-word transcript using Linguistic Inquiry Word Count ( liwc ) software revealed that coping with is a case mind over emotions, 12.52% words related to 4.17% processes. Frequently used li...