Routes to Knowledge

Modeling Human Knowledge of Routes: Partial Knowledge and Individual Variation

Commonsense knowledge of large-scale space (the cog-nitive map) includes several diierent types of knowledge: of sensorimotor, topological, and metrical spatial relationships. Sensorimotor knowledge is deened as that knowledge which is necessary to reconstruct a route from memory after travel along that route in a large-scale environment. A representation for route knowledge is proposed with su...

Routes to greener plastics

How to hide a dimension from view Compacted dimensions are essential ingredients of advanced string theories; the extra dimensions used to describe the world are hidden from view, or compacted. Pendry et al. used concepts of transformation optics, in which metamaterials are designed to produce specific optical properties, to show theoretically that compacted dimensions could be possible in plas...

Routes to embodiment

Research on embodiment is rich in impressive demonstrations but somewhat poor in comprehensive explanations. Although some moderators and driving mechanisms have been identified, a comprehensive conceptual account of how bodily states or dynamics influence behavior is still missing. Here, we attempt to integrate current knowledge by describing three basic psychological mechanisms: direct state ...

Degenerate routes to chaos.

We present examples of simple dynamical systems containing alternative routes to chaos which are degenerate with a period-doubling route. The existence of degenerate routes implies the possibility of having more entangled dynamical behaviors hidden in observations based on a single-variable time series, possibly requiring, therefore, special care to discriminate them. A model system allowing th...

Routes to allograft survival.