Toward a Thinking Microscope

Toward a computational microscope for neurobiology

Although great strides have been made in neurobiology, we do not yet understand how the symphony of communication among neurons leads to rich, competent behaviors in animals. How do local interactions among neurons coalesce into the behavioral dynamics of nervous systems, giving animals their impressive abilities to sense, learn, decide, and act in the world? Many details remain cloaked in myst...

Toward a taxonomy of future thinking

Thinking Green: Toward Swedish FrameNet++

Access to multi-layered lexical, grammatical and semantic information representing text content is a prerequisite for efficient automatic understanding and generation of natural language. A FrameNet is considered a valuable resource for both linguistics and language technology research that may contribute to the achievement of these goals. Currently, FrameNet-like resources exist for a few lang...

The Disposition Toward Critical Thinking

There is a set of characterological attributes thought to be associated with developing success at critical thinking (CT). This paper explores the disposition toward CT theoretically, and then as it appears to be manifest in college students. Factor analytic research grounded in a consensus-based conceptual analysis of CT described seven aspects of the overall disposition toward CT: truth-seeki...

Toward objective selection of representative microscope images.

Scientists wishing to communicate the essential characteristics of a pattern (such as an immunofluorescence distribution) currently must make a subjective choice of one or two images to publish. We therefore developed methods for objectively choosing a typical image from a set, with emphasis on images from cell biology. The methods involve calculation of numerical features to describe each imag...