Informal judgments of sentence acceptability have long been the primary source of evidence about grammaticality in syntax, and have been controversial just as long. In the past decade, there has been growing interest in collecting and analyzing acceptability judgments according to the formal protocols of experimental psycholinguistics, an approach sometimes called experimental syntax. This arti...

This paper proposes the adoption of rule-based supervisor with logical agents as implementation of a reasoning layer embedded in cognitive robotic controllers where the world model representation is built from the output of a layer of deep learning perception modules. In this way the logical augmented cognitive robot could self-check in situations were safety and security issues have an impact ...

Researchers have developed a large number of ontology-mapping algorithms in recent years. However, ontology mapping is hardly a fully automated task and users must verify and fine-tune the mappings resulting from automated algorithms. Both academic and industry researchers have focused on the algorithms themselves and largely ignored the issue of cognitive support for users in the task of analy...

In this paper we propose a method to create data-driven mappings from components of cognitive models to brain regions. Cognitive models are notoriously hard to evaluate, especially based on behavioral measures alone. Neuroimaging data can provide additional constraints, but this requires a mapping from model components to brain regions. Although such mappings can be based on the experience of t...

In order to test between subtractive and ratio theories of stimulus comparison, judges were asked to estimate "ratios" and "differences" of easterliness and westerliness of U.S. cities. "Difference" judgments fit the subtractive model, and "ratio" judgments fit the ratio model. However, "ratios" and "differences" were monotonically related, contrary to the theory that judges compute both relati...

BACKGROUND Cognitive mapping is a participatory research methodology that documents, in visual form, a construct of the local environment in which people live and work. We adapted this method to provide detailed data about study locales to inform recruitment and retention strategies for HIV prevention community based clinical trials. METHODS Four cognitive mapping studies were undertaken betw...