Education and learning stand out among many application areas of cognitive computing due to their practical appeal as well as their research challenge. We can gauge the level of research challenge once we recognize the broad spectrum of human learning, the complex and not fully understood human learning process, and various influencing factors of learning, such as pedagogy, technology, and soci...

The aim of the present paper is to provide a general overview of cognitive dissonance theory. We begin by defining the basic concepts and summarizing the principal postulates of the theory. We point to possible classifications of the theory in terms of different forms of scholarship and types of theory by considering relevant philosophical and methodological assumptions. We go on to discuss the...

Planetarian March 2014 Introduction The planetarium has undergone an evolution in delivery (Yo, Chaplin, & Goldsworth, 2011). No longer do some planetariums use analog projectors to display the stars, but rather use digital projectors to create immersive cosmic environments on a grand scale using a multimedia format of images, video, sound, and narration (Rosenfield et al, 2010). Does this new ...

1.1 Perception and its constancy Born and developed in the middle of 1970’s, cognitive science is a kind of intersectional and integrative science aiming to study both the working principle and the developing mechanism of human brain and psyche. It is a product from the processes of intersection, infiltration and aggregation of such sciences as psychology, computer science, neurology, linguisti...

The field of cognitive science studies latent, unobservable cognitive processes that generate observable behaviors. Similarly, cognitive neuroscience attempts to link latent cognitive processes with the neural mechanisms that generate them. Although neural processes are partially observable (with imaging and electrophysiology), it would be a mistake to 'skip' the cognitive level and pursue a pu...

Coxeter Theory is a fascinating example of a mathematical theory where the cognitive roots of mathematical thinking are directly evident. The paper contains an informal discussion, made from a mathematician’s point of view, of possible cognitive aspects of the theory. We hope that it will be interesting to mathematicians and cognitive scientists alike.

Recent accounts of pretense have been underdescribed in a number of ways. In this paper, we present a much more explicit cognitive account of pretense. We begin by describing a number of real examples of pretense in children and adults. These examples bring out several features of pretense that any adequate theory of pretense must accommodate, and we use these features to develop our theory of ...

In a previous paper (Compléments pour une théorie des distorsions cognitives, Journal de Thérapie Comportementale et Cognitive, 2007), we did present some elements aimed at contributing to a general theory of cognitive distortions. Based on the reference class, the duality and the system of taxa, these elements led to distinguish between the general cognitive distortions (dichotomous reasoning,...

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Background Complementary Feeding between 6 and 24 months of age underlies nutritional habits in adulthood which can be formed by mothers through these habits. This study was conducted in Kerman aiming to apply the social cognitive theory (SCT) in feeding practices of mothers for their children aged 6 to 24 months. Materials and Methods This quasi-experimental study, controlled before and aft...