One of the problems encountered in Philosophy of Mind is that cognitive theories have a nontrivial dependence on the context of specific neurological makeups or mechanisms of individuals and species. Due to this context-dependency, for example, regularities or relationships between cognitive states are not considered genuine laws and cannot be directly related to neurological laws. The classica...

One of the major in imaging neuroscience is the integration of cognitive science with the empiricism of neurophysiology. The cognitive architectures and principles offered by cognitive science have been essential in shaping experimental design and image analysis strategies from the outset. Now some of the cognitive models and their assumptions (for example, cognitive subtraction) are being resv...

Although language processing is thought to frequently require cognitive control, little is known about the cognitive and neural basis of the control of language. Here, we demonstrate that processing of context by the PFC plays an important role in the control of language comprehension and production. Using a missing letter paradigm and fMRI, we found that increased activation in the PFC (but no...

Declines in the ability to process context information may represent a fundamental mechanism of age-related cognitive changes. Two components of context processing--activation/updating and maintenance--were examined in a sample of healthy younger and older adults, along with individuals suffering from early stage dementia of the Alzheimer's type (DAT). All older adult groups showed context acti...

Relevance theory challenges the traditional view of context, proposes the concept of cognitive context and a new inferential model. Its explanation of metaphor from the cognitive perspective is rather different from other metaphor theories. By discussing relevance theory’s views on context and metaphor respectively, this paper, based on the researches of contemporary scholars and pragmatists on...

Introduction: Campus life tends to make social and academic demands on college students. To cope with these demands, students are required to use their neurocognitive skills of problem- solving and planning intentional actions that target towards adaptation to college. This paper presents an illuminating perspective that would inform understanding of a new approach to cognitive neuroscience. Th...

The effectiveness of neurophysiologically triggered adaptive systems hinges on reliable and effective signal processing and cognitive state classification. While this presents a difficult technical challenge in any context, these concerns were particularly pronounced in a system designed for mobile contexts. This paper describes a neurophysiologically-derived cognitive state classification appr...

With the Logic of Demonstratives (LD), David Kaplan defines a new formal approach for indexical languages (languages containing expressions as ‘I’, ‘here’, ‘now’), introducing a double indexing into the definition of satisfiability and distinguishing the content and the character of an expression. In particular, the meaning of an indexical is provided by an ad hoc index which depends on the (ob...