Describes the outlines of a computational explication of the belief–desire theory of emotion, a variant of cognitive emotion theory. According to the proposed explication, a core subset of emotions including surprise are nonconceptual products of hardwired mechanisms whose primary function is to subserve the monitoring and updating of the central representational system of humans, the belief–de...

Purpose The emerging consumer-dominant logic of marketing captures consumers’ active and primary role in a range mainstream processes such as branding, product development sales. However, driving pro-social behaviour change has not yet received close attention. purpose this paper is to introduce explore consumer dominance social marketing. authors propose definition (CDSM) explicate five key el...

The computational model presented here, Grasping Affordances (GA) model, provides a precise explication of the notion of affordance in the context of grasping actions carried out by monkeys. This explication is consistent with both direct perception theories and neuroscientific models of monkey brains, insofar as the identification of grasping affordances requires, according to this model, neit...

This research studies a relatively unexplored aspect of expertise - the ability to detect causal relational patterns in multiple contexts - and demonstrates learning processes that foster this ability. Using the Ambiguous Sorting Task (AST), in which domain information competes with causal patterns, we previously found that science experts spontaneously noticed and sorted by causal patterns suc...