Cognition

Embodied Cognition as Interactive Cognition

What abstract conditions concerning embodiment are necessary, together with formal conditions, for a specification of sufficient conditions for cognition? A material environment does more than realise one formal specification. There is no one base specification on which all the formal specifications that it realises supervene. Thus a relationship with a material environment may defy comprehensi...

Evolved Cognition and Artificial Cognition

The implicit claim is that such a machine can learn at speeds comparable to learning in humans, and will not require evolutionary time-scales, despite having no specific knowledge about the environment initially, nor even any concepts (an ontology) specific to the environment. This is closely related to the ancient "tabula rasa" theory of knowledge acquisition, summarised here: http://en.wikipe...

The Cognition of the City at Night

Human presence and accordingly establishing suitable condition for social interactions are important factors in shaping urban spaces. Caring to different aspects of improving environmental qualities especially perception aspect and ease of perception from the environment with legibility improvement is an element that was emphasized from the base of urban design. The role of time, commence of da...

Social Cognition of Gender and Language

The question, Do men and women use language differently played a central part in the emergence of feminist socio linguistics more than two decades ago, and it casts a long shadow. This paper focuses on the literature that has contributed to the understanding of the major research questions underlying two major strands, language and gender, concentrating on the development of the literature from...

kant on the embodied cognition