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Information and Mental Representation

open access: yesProceedings, 2020
Information has been used to explain mental representation. However, whether it succeeds in explaining the mentality of mental representation is an issue.
Wei Jiang
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Distributed loci of control: Overcoming stale dichotomies in biology and cognitive science

open access: yesRivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 2023
We argue that theoretical debates in biology and cognitive science often are based around differences in the posited locus of control for biological and cognitive phenomena.
Daniel C. Burnston, Antonella Tramacere
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Laypeople’s Affective Images of Energy Transition Pathways

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2018
This paper explores the public perception of energy transition pathways, that is, individual behaviors, political strategies, and technologies that aim to foster a shift toward a low-carbon and sustainable society. We employed affective image analysis, a
Gisela Böhm   +3 more
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Ontologies, Mental Disorders and Prototypes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
As it emerged from philosophical analyses and cognitive research, most concepts exhibit typicality effects, and resist to the efforts of defining them in terms of necessary and sufficient conditions.
A Lieto   +33 more
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Placing Abstract Concepts in Space: Quantity, Time and Emotional Valence

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2018
Research has shown that abstract concepts are often conceptualized along horizontal and vertical axes. However, there are mixed results concerning which axis is preferred for which type of conceptual domain.
Greg Woodin, Bodo Winter
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The neural representation of mental beliefs held by two agents [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Neuroimaging research has demonstrated that mentalizing about false beliefs held by other people recruits the temporo-parietal junction (TPJ). However, earlier work was limited to a single agent that held a false belief. We investigated the effect of two
Brass, Marcel   +4 more
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In-group and Out-group: Dynamics of the «Russia – West» Social Distance Online and Offline

open access: yesСоциологическая наука и социальная практика, 2021
The article reveals a theoretical and empirical study of the social distance symbolic scale expressing “in-group” – “out-group” perceptions, expressed in the oppositions “Russia” – “West”, “Russian men – Western men”.
Zinaida V. Sikevich, Anna A. Fedorova
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Ineffability: The very concept [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In this paper, I analyze the concept of ineffability: what does it mean to say that something cannot be said? I begin by distinguishing ineffability from paradox: if something cannot be said truly or without contradiction, this is not an instance of ...
Gäb, Sebastian
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Cognitive Flexibility in Schoolchild Through the Graphic Representation of Movement

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Neuroconstructivism postulates the progressive complexity of mental representation over the course of cognitive development and the role of the graphic representation of movement in the transformation of mental schemas, cognitive flexibility, and ...
MᵃLuz Urraca-Martínez   +1 more
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Investigating Differences between Graphical and Textual Declarative Process Models [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Declarative approaches to business process modeling are regarded as well suited for highly volatile environments, as they enable a high degree of flexibility.
A. Baddeley   +16 more
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