Instinctive Action

Intuition as Instinctive Dialogue

A multimodal dialogue system which answers user questions in natural speech presents one of the main achievements of contemporary interaction-based AI technology. To allow for an intuitive, multimodal, task-based dialogue, the following must be employed: more than explicit models of the discourse of the interaction, the available information material, the domain of interest, the task, and/or mo...

A Theory Of Instinctive Information Sharing

Recent psychology research suggests that people have an innate tendency to share information. This brings a new perspective to existing information sharing research. We elaborated a new theory with the central construct of need for information sharing. This need for information sharing is a measure of an individual’s innate need to share information with others. We also developed measurement it...

Rapid Spatial Learning Controls Instinctive Defensive Behavior in Mice

Instinctive defensive behaviors are essential for animal survival. Across the animal kingdom, there are sensory stimuli that innately represent threat and trigger stereotyped behaviors such as escape or freezing [1-4]. While innate behaviors are considered to be hard-wired stimulus-responses [5], they act within dynamic environments, and factors such as the properties of the threat [6-9] and it...

Instinctive Plant Tolerance Towards Abiotic Stresses in Arid Regions

Instinctive and Cognitive Reasoning: a Study of Response Times*

Lecture audiences and students were asked to respond to virtual decision and game situations at gametheory.tau.ac.il. Several thousand observations were collected and the response time for each answer was recorded. There were significant differences in response time across responses. It is suggested that choices made instinctively, that is, on the basis of an emotional response, require less re...