The development of classical and contemporary informatics, the
cross-fertilization between computer science, software engineering, cognitive
science, and neuropsychology, has led to a whole range of extremely interesting
new research areas known as cognitive informatics. Cognitive informatics is the
transdisciplinary study of cognitive and information sciences that investigates
into the internal i... hiện toàn bộ
This article develops a theory for how caringbehavior fits into the makeup of
humans andother mammals. Biochemical evidence for threemajor patterns of
response to stressful orotherwise complex situations is reviewed. There is the
classic fight-or-flight response;the dissociative response, involving
emotionalwithdrawal and disengagement; and the bondingresponse, a variant of
which Taylor et al.(200... hiện toàn bộ
The canonical Buddhist account of the cognitive processes underlying our
experience of the world prefigures recent developments in neuroscience. The
developments in question are centered on two main trends in neuroscience
research and thinking. The first of these involves the idea that our everyday
experience of ourselves and of the world consists in a series of discrete
microstates. The second cl... hiện toàn bộ
Taste-aversion learning has been a popular paradigm for examining associative
processes because it often produces outcomes that are different from those
observed in other classical conditioning paradigms. One such outcome is
taste-mediated odor potentiation in which aversion conditioning with a weak odor
and a strong taste results in increased or synergistic conditioning to the odor.
Because this ... hiện toàn bộ
We investigated binocular rivalry in the twocerebral hemispheres of
callosotomized(split-brain) observers. We found that rivalryoccurs for complex
stimuli in split-brainobservers, and that it is similar in the twohemispheres.
This poses difficulties for twotheories of rivalry: (1) that rivalry
occursbecause of switching of activity between thetwo hemispheres, and (2) that
rivalry iscontrolled by a... hiện toàn bộ
The analysis of mental concepts suggests that the distinctionbetween the mental
and the nonmental is not ontologically fundamental,and that, whereas mental
processes are one and the same things as thebrain processes with which they are
correlated, dispositional mentalstates depend causally on and are, thus,
''distinct existences'' fromthe states of the brain microstructure with which
'they' are co... hiện toàn bộ
Despite the fact that the number of neurons in the human brain has been
identified in cognitive and neural sciences, the magnitude of human memory
capacity is still unknown. This paper reports the discovery of the memory
capacity of the human brain, which is on the order of 108432 bits. A cognitive
model of the brain is created, which shows that human memory and knowledge are
represented by relati... hiện toàn bộ