The diversity of methods, contents and tests used in the study of eyewitness memory may have contributed to discrepancies in results in this ®eld. In this experiment, using incidental or intentional learning, we examine the recall and recognition of actions and details concerning the central and peripheral information of a kidnapping. A similar pattern emerges in free recall, hits and recogniti...

Research on initial conceptual knowledge and research on early statistical learning mechanisms have been, for the most part, two separate enterprises. We report a study with 11-month-old infants investigating whether they are sensitive to sampling conditions and whether they can integrate intentional information in a statistical inference task. Previous studies found that infants were able to m...

although it is not often thought of, elderly abuse is a frequently occurring phenomenon. especially when an older patient dies, maltreatment is low on the list of possible causes of death. there are, however, signs that may point in the direction of abuse. these can either be on the patient’s body, in the surroundings, or within the story as to how the patient died. attention should be paid to ...

People regularly need to cope with new challenging situations that cannot be mastered by only applying routine procedural skills and knowledge. Independently updating one’s set of skills and knowledge base in the context of technologically rich environments is essential to meet the changing lifeand workplace requirements. This paper proposes the creation and maintenance of landscapes of network...

The acquisition of causal knowledge is a primary goal of childhood; yet most of this knowledge is known already to adults. We argue that causal learning which leverages social reasoning is a rapid and important route to knowledge. We present a computational model integrating knowledge about causality with knowledge about intentional agency, but using a domaingeneral mechanism for reasoning. Inf...

In this paper, we study the problem of imitation learning of hierarchical policies from demonstrations. The main difficulty in learning hierarchical policies by imitation is that the high level intention structure of the policy, which is often critical for understanding the demonstration, is unobserved. We formulate this problem as active learning of Probabilistic State-Dependent Grammars (PSDG...

Any attempt to include learning competences in agent technologies, involves the problem of integrating such competences in the rationality of the agents. This work discusses the design of learning intentional agents in a multiagent system (MAS). Learning intentionally means that these agents learn to adopt their intentions under practical reasoning considerations, specified in terms of Beliefs,...

Although middle school teachers use a variety of ELL textbooks, many lack effective criteria to critically select materials that represent a wide range of L2 learning strategies. This study analyzed the illustrated and written content of 33 ELL textbooks to determine the range of L2 learning strategies represented. The researchers chose an intentional, convenience sample from each textbook to f...

This paper reports a case study investigating and comparing three word-learning methods [i.e. Meaning-Given, Meaning-Inferred with Multiple Choices (Meaning-Inferred with MC as below), and Pure Meaning-Inferred] in two modes of learning (i.e. incidental and intentional learning, ICL & ITL respectively as below) in terms of the retention of L2 word meanings in a Chinese University. Findings sugg...