Consequences of cognitive offloading: Boosting performance but diminishing memory

Cognitive Offloading Does Not Prevent but Rather Promotes Cognitive Development

We investigate the relation between the development of reactive and cognitive capabilities. In particular we investigate whether the development of reactive capabilities prevents or promotes the development of cognitive capabilities in a population of evolving robots that have to solve a time-delay navigation task in a double T-Maze environment. Analysis of the experiments reveals that the evol...

Boosting the Performance of Shared Memory

S hared memory multiprocessors make it practical to convert sequential programs to parallel ones in a variety of applications. Most such machines incorporate caches in each node, to allow data replication, and use a cache coherence protocol to ensure that a processor accesses the latest copy of the replicated data. An emerging class of shared memory multi-processors—nonuniform memory access mac...

Determinants of cognitive offloading

Boosting HMM performance with a memory upgrade

The state-of-the-art in automatic speech recognition is distinctly Markovian. The ubiquitous ‘beads-on-a-string’ approach, where sentences are explained as a sequence of words, words as a sequence of phones and phones as a sequence of acoustically stable states, is bound to lose a lot of dynamic information. In this paper we show that a combination with example-based recognition can be used to ...

Consequences of Diminishing Trust in Cyberspace

The cyberspace has become an integral part of modern day life—social, economic, political, religious, medical and other aspects. Without the availability of the Internet today’s businesses, government and society cannot function properly. Moreover, different online social media and blogosphere are bringing people together, providing platforms to share their ideas and allowing their voices to be...