Tag: cognitive science
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September 06, 2009 08:38 AM EDT --
Update: I first posted this on Gather on October 27, 2007. I had a point I wanted to make, about the future we may reasonably expect to come to pass. That future is in many ways being . . .
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March 14, 2009 04:10 PM EDT --
Lets start with our own experience of consciousness. We begin by looking at the simple idea of being aware of something. But this being aware begins in us as a lacuna . . .
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May 17, 2007 10:57 AM EDT --
(or how tagging transforms the solitary browsing experience into a community building social one)
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In a previous article, I contemplated the cognitive science aspect of tagging . . .
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July 02, 2006 05:10 PM EDT --
For Laura Stuart Mercer, artist of the invisible, in answer to Daniel Dennett's philosophical dismissal of 'qualia' in his books, CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLAINED and SWEET DREAMS. Unfortunately . . .
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February 05, 2007 05:18 AM EST --
For Jill Pazereckas, prolific and talented young pre-Simulationist poet, writer, photographer, and mixed media artist, who mediates the futility and despair of today’s runaway world via an inner . . .
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December 29, 2007 06:12 AM EST --
Cognitive scientist and experimental psychologist Steven Pinker is well-known for a number of popular science books on language (The Language Instinct, 1994; Words and Rules, 2000), as well as on . . .
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February 14, 2006 06:09 PM EST --
In the summer between finishing my degree and joining the corporate world, I taught cognitive science to fifteen highschoolers.
Just a kid out of grad school, with barely twenty minutes of time in front . . .
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March 25, 2009 01:27 PM EDT --
for Ann M., with admiration for her great critical skill, and capacity to nurture artists. This poem is part of an ongoing literary salon she is conducting on Gather about surrealism. Please visit the . . .
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April 05, 2007 10:38 AM EDT --
[or how the lower cognitive cost of tagging makes it so darn popular]
Will Evans
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At the start, let me confess that I struggled with this topic. From my . . .
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October 03, 2006 12:10 PM EDT --
What I should write is an article using my blend of Information Architecture and new Pre-Simulation formulations to explain to Gatherites how the Web 2.0 experience transforms the writing/reading experience . . .
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February 08, 2007 11:01 PM EST --
Information Architecture (that is – what I do) – the words themselves are enough to cause the eyes of most executives and Gatherites to glaze over, and of course, my grandmother, who is still . . .
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March 26, 2007 03:58 PM EDT --
-w/e
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So I was recently thinking that Web-based applications, like all software applications, are obviously intended for people to use to solve goals. Not . . .
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March 31, 2008 12:32 PM EDT --
Starting in the 70's some Republican Party strategists began to explore how they could strengthen their Party's position in national politics and extend their influence over more American . . .
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February 07, 2007 06:07 AM EST --
“The metaphors we use constantly in our everyday language profoundly influence what we do, because they shape our understanding. [It is said] that metaphors are pervasive because they reflect how . . .
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February 12, 2007 06:40 AM EST --
Researchers at the MIT McGovern Institute for Brain Research have used a biological model to train a computer model to recognize objects in busy street scenes, such as cars or people. Their very innovative . . .
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May 16, 2007 08:04 AM EDT --
(or the rich get richer effect)
Duncan Watts (author of Six Degrees) wrote an article in the New York Times about the rich get richer effect. He reports on a series of experiments on the web where they . . .
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February 13, 2007 04:48 AM EST --
Why does it seem that so many Information Architects seem like they are running off and either co-opting the semantics of cognitive science or scared shitless when other IAs do? What do cognitive science . . .
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