The article analyzes mental representations of Russian lyrical prose texts. The texts demonstrate collective memory engrams that are defined by cultural and historical legacy of the nation and authors’ creative world perception. In architectonics of a lyrical prose text, sense perception reveals itself in accumulated underlying meanings and wisdom conveyed by expressive means. The author’s inte...

In this paper, the function of receptive and processing neurons is distinguished from that of neuronal circuits. The former, which are inside the circuits, collect and elaborate sensorial information to build “objects” which are spatially and temporally well-structured and vary in intensity. These objects are the modal components of sensory systems: hot/cold, smooth/rough, green, table, sound, ...

Note to readers. What follows are drafts of six chapters of our book in progress, Seductions and Shortcuts: Fallacies in the Cognitive Economy, which is volume 3 of our omnibus work, A Practical Logic of Cognitive Systems, published by Elsevier/NorthHolland. The six chapters that appear here have been drafted as stand-alone pieces, and they have not yet been integrated into a smoothly flowing u...

E d i t o r ’ s N o t e : G e o r g e M . Llewellyn is President and cofounder of Estimation, Inc. and also, over the period of the last fourteen years, has been active in the development and improvement of computerized estimating and job management programs. Mr. Llewellyn, author of many articles on the subject, has served as consultant to workshop programs held by universities and colleges of...