By Maria Nowakowska
This hugely unique paintings extends and enriches our realizing of the theoretical equipment of cognitive technology and highlights a few new elements and chances for constructing this interdisciplinary topic. the writer examines the theoretical and methodological foundations of cognitive technology and explores its usefulness as a descriptive and explanatory tool.
The issues lined diversity from such particularly unexplored ones as observability networks and their regulations, random and semi-random fuzzy gadgets, and family members among subjective and target time, via judgement formation, descriptions, and texts, to extra conventional topics studied through cognitive scientists, particularly, visible belief, reminiscence, and verbal exchange. In her remedy of every subject, the writer develops new conceptual representations of the phenomenon analyzed, postulates acceptable mechanisms, and formulates explanatory hypotheses.
Dr. Nowakowska treats cognitive tactics via a suite of interrelated theories, from varied views and on a variety of degrees of generality. She departs from the knowledge processing paradigm and proposes new options and ideas in line with mental intuitions and mechanisms. Her paintings stresses the issues of cognitive boundaries and distortions in addition to the generative, managed, and dynamic personality of cognition
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Let us now consider another type of question connected with time, namely, that of duration. 9 Summary and Discussion 53 viewpoint, than an assertion about the order of events. The former is based on a presupposition that time is measurable on an interval scale. Again, one may ask the same question as before. In the nonfuzzy case, one may consider what conditions have to be met by a class of statements concerning comparison of time intervals to imply measurability of time on an interval scale. This measurability means, roughly speaking, that it is meaningful to say that some temporal distance is "twice as long" as another, etc.
16 by allowing the decision of equality of stimuli A and B. 71) where d > Ois some threshold. In the opposite case, stimulus AorB is asserted as longer depending on whether xA(t) > xB(t) + d or xA(t) < xB(t) — d. Let us now calculate the probability, given the initial values of stimuli to be m(A) and m(B), that stimulus A will be judged as longer than stimulus B. 16. 40 1 A New Theory of Time Looking at Fig. 3, it is clear that, at the comparison time, the memory trace of stimulus A equals XA = xA(t* + TB + tc), and hence it has the normal distribution N{m{A),a2{t* + TB + tc)).
5 Some Problems of Existence of Events 43 the first stimulus becomes increasingly fuzzy. Consequently, the probability that it will be judged as of the same duration as the second stimulus should increase with an increase in the duration of the pause. One should remember, however, that the model covers a relatively small range of possible durations of time intervals. In other words, when the length of the pause exceeds a critical value, other mechanisms of remembering begin to operate. Consequently, for experimental results restricted to short durations of stimuli and the pause, one can use maximum likelihood methods to estimate the values tc, k/σ, and d/σ.
