Within the general objective of conceiving a cognitive architecture for image interpretation able to generate outputs relevant to several target user profiles, the paper elaborates on a set of operations that should be provided by a cognitive space to guarantee the generation of relevant descriptions. First, it attempts to define a working definition of contrast operation. Then, revisiting well...

While computational cognitive modeling has made great strides in addressing complex dynamic tasks, the modeling of individual differences in complex tasks remains a largely unexplored area of research. In this paper we present a straightforward approach to modeling individual differences, specifically age-related cognitive differences, in complex tasks, and illustrate the application of this ap...

This special issue of Cognitive Systems Research presents a collection of remarkable papers on cognitive modeling based on communications delivered at ICCM-2006, the Seventh International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (Fum, Del Missier, & Stocco, 2006) held in Trieste, Italy, from April 5th to 8th, 2006. Being the organizers and chairmen of the conference, we have been invited to serve as gu...

the appearance of new sciences and conflicts arising from reductionism in domain of science and knowledge, explains the necessity of interdisciplinary studies. some scientists believe the history of interdisciplinary studies is rooted in ancient greece, but in fact interdisciplinary studies started in industrial laboratories, the first center for interdisciplinary studies, about 150 years ago. ...

One of the central motivations for developing qualitative reasoning was the investigation of a “naïve physics“, with the aim to describe the physical world with human “everyday” concepts. This implies the idea that a formal description alone is not sufficient – it should take into account relevant findings from Cognitive Science about human concepts. In this article we (i) present main findings...

Recent research in psychology and neuroscience has identified both the critical role of emotion in decision-making and social interaction, and some of the mechanisms mediating the functioning of emotion. Yet the majority of cognitive architectures do not include models of emotion. In this paper I first motivate the need for including emotion in cognitive architectures, and then describe a gener...

A remarkable property of human cognition is the systematic co-occurrence of certain cognitive abilities. One challenge for cognitive science is to determine the (computational) principles that derive this property as part of a broader goal of establishing the foundations of cognitive architecture (i.e. the basic processes and modes of combination affording cognitive capacity) for a science of c...

Written by leading experts in the field, this volume presents some of the latest advances in cognitive informatics and cognitive computing. The chapters are based on selected and refined papers from the In a world of chaotic alignments, traditional logic with its strict boundaries of truth and falsity has not imbued itself with the capability of reflecting the reality. Despite various attempts ...

In order to better understand how humans acquire knowledge, one of the essential goals in cognitive science is to build a cognitive model of human learning. Moreover, a cognitive model that better matches student behavior will often yield better instruction in intelligent tutoring systems. However, manual construction of such cognitive models is time consuming, and requires domain expertise. Fu...