Department of Biological Sciences, Gilman Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA Departments of Pathology and Molecular Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue Bronx, 0711 New York, New York 10461, USA Corresponding author. Tel: + 1 603 646 8706; Fax: +1 603 646 1347; E-mail: [email protected] Corresponding author. Tel: +1 718 43

Music perception is highly intertwined with both emotions and context. Not surprisingly, many of the users’ information seeking actions aim at retrieving music songs based on these perceptual dimensions – moods and themes, expressing how people feel about music or which situations they associate it with. In order to successfully support music retrieval along these dimensions, powerful methods a...

How can we approach the truth in a society? It may depend on various factors. In this paper, using a well-established truth seeking model, we show that the persistent free information flow will bring us to the truth. Here the free information flow is modeled as the environmental random noise that could alter one’s cognition. Without the random noise, the model predicts that the truth can only b...

According to Dworkin, “truth” is an interpretative concept. Why? Moral judgements are often the subject of disagreement because they result divergent conceptual understandings. If, on other hand, we want interpret concepts correctly, have deal with analysis underlying values attach these concepts. Dworkin understands true as a matter interpretation, which—and this misunderstood—is capable produ...

My research seeks to answer the question of how any agent that is tasked with making sense of its world, by finding explanations for evidence (e.g., sensor reports) using domain-general strategies, may accurately and efficiently handle incomplete evidence, noisy evidence, and an incomplete knowledge base. I propose the following answer to the question. The agent should employ an optimal abducti...

While people across the world value honesty, it is undeniable that can sometimes pay to be dishonest. This tension leads engage in complex behaviors stretch boundaries of honesty. Such include strategically avoiding information, dodging questions, omitting and making true but misleading statements. Though not lies per se, these are nonetheless deviations from honesty have serious interpersonal,...