Carrying out similarity and analogy comparisons can be modeled as the alignment and mapping of structured representations. In this article we focus on three aspects of comparison that are central in structure-mapping theory. All three are controversial. First, comparison involves structured representations. Second, the comparison process is driven by a preference for connected relational struct...

The main theoretical position of this paper is that it is the explicit problem solving support in concept mapping software that produces a stronger effect in problem solving performance than the implicit support afforded by the graphical functionality of concept mapping software. Explicit problem solving support activates cognitive functions such as knowledge representation, knowledge elicitati...

The Cognitive Map Probe (CMP) is a novel Virtual Reality interface that attempts to assess the cognitive mapping abilities of its users. The CMP uses a tangible user interface (TUI) in order to support natural acquisition and straightforward assessment of cognitive maps. It is directed at the assessment of early Alzheimer Disease (AD) by measuring the decline in cognitive mapping abilities, a d...

Objective Long-term strategic planning is necessary if an organization intends to go beyond its customers’ expectations and remain competitive. A balanced scorecard is considered as a mere scorecard without a strategic plan. Therefore, it will only report the important measures not a clear understanding of leading the whole organization towards success. Strategic planning as the rationale behi...

Human reasoning goes beyond knowledge about individual entities, extending to inferences based on relations between entities. Here we focus the use of in verbal analogical mapping, sketching a general approach assessing similarity patterns semantic words. This combines research artificial intelligence with work psychology and cognitive science, aim minimizing hand coding text inputs for tasks. ...

“What is the role played by aesthetics and politics of space,” asks Kanishka Goonewardena, “in producing reproducing durable disjunction between consciousness our urban everyday life […] now global structure social relations that itself ultimately responsible for spaces lived-experience?” (55). Goonewardena’s account “urban sensorium” describes mediatory, ideological space in this “gap,” inform...

Information Visualization can be considered as the task of mapping data entities in a source file to representation artefacts in a target visualization format. As such, mapping plays a significant role in this process. The field of Ontology Mapping presents a wealth of work in the information mapping domain which we propose to exploit by applying it to Information Visualization for the Semantic...

Information Visualization can be considered as the task of mapping data entities in a source file to representation artefacts in a target visualization format. As such, mapping plays a significant role in this process. The field of Ontology Mapping presents a wealth of work in the information mapping domain which we propose to exploit by applying it to Information Visualization for the Semantic...

Cancer survivors have lingering cognitive problems, however the anatomical basis for these problems has yet to be fully elucidated. Clinical studies as well as animal models of chemotherapy have pinpointed cell and volume loss to the hippocampus, however, few studies have performed shape analysis of the hippocampus on cancer survivors. This study used high-dimensional deformation mapping analys...