This paper present a novel Dynamic Enactment Support to Specify and Execute Methods with the process model called Map. Maps describe the intentions that can be achieved in a process, strategies to achieve these intentions, and possible orders of intention achievements. When the user has selected the intention he wants to achieve along with the strategy he wants to use, the corresponding method ...

Mental representation is a fundamental aspect of advanced cognition. An understanding of the evolution of mental representation is essential to an understanding of the evolution of mind. However, being a decidedly mental phenomenon, its evolution is difficult to study. We hypothesize how interactions between adaptation levels may cause emergence of isomorphism between a cognitive system and its...

public: Universal lexical entry that is available to the entire community of speakers. This is what most people typically mean by the expression “public word.” Abstract private: Mental lexicon entry that is private to an individual. This is (roughly speaking) the same thing as Origgi and Sperber’s second type of mental token.private: Mental lexicon entry that is private to an individual. This i...

Forearm vascular conductance (FVC) increases in response to mental stress (verbal mental arithmetic) in young people. However, the effect of healthy aging and mental stress on FVC is unknown. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that FVC and cutaneous vascular conductance (CVC) would be attenuated in older adults compared to young adults. In 13 young (27 ± 1 year) and 11 older (62 ± 1 year) ...

This paper presents an approach to simulate the mental activities of children during their interaction with computers through their spoken language. The mental activities are categorized into three states: confidence, confusion and frustration. Two knowledge sources are used in the detection. One is prosody, which indicates utterance type and user’s attitude. The other is embedded key words/phr...

Previous work has shown that various symptoms of unilateral neglect, including the pathological shift of the subjective midline to the right, may be improved by a short adaptation period to a prismatic shift of the visual field to the right. We report here, in two neglect patients the improvement of imagery neglect after prism exposure. Despite a strong neglect observed for mental images, as we...

Atlantia Food Clinical Trials Ltd has considerable experience in conducting clinical studies exploring the potential health benefits of probiotics, in a variety of health areas including digestive health and cardiovascular health. In this whitepaper we explore a relatively new area in the field of probiotics, namely the use of probiotics to promote mental health and wellbeing. A psychobiotic wa...

Gestures are related to the mental states and unfolding processes of thought, reasoning and verbal language production. This is especially apparent in the case of metaphors and metaphoric gestures. For example, talking about the importance of an idea by calling it a big idea and gesturing to indicate that large size is a manifestation of the use of metaphors in language and gesture. We propose ...

The authors report the case of a woman with a right basal ganglia lesion and severe mental-rotation impairments. She had no difficulty recognizing rotated objects and had intact left-right orientation in egocentric space but was unable to map the left and right sides of external objects to her egocentric reference frame. This study indicates that the right basal ganglia may be critical componen...

BACKGROUND The Mental Health Country Profile is a tool that was generated by the International Mental Health Policy and Services Project to inform policy makers, professionals and other key stakeholders about important issues which need to be considered in mental health policy development. The Mental Health Country Profile contains four domains, which include the mental health context, resource...