Affordances are opportunities for action for a given animal (or animals) in a given
environment or situation. The concept of affordance has been widely adopted in the …

This paper aims to examine the evolutionary role of affordances, that is, the possibilities for
action available in our environments. There are two allegedly competing views for …

This chapter analyzes how some spaces or places become distributors of cultural values.
The relevance of these places lies in the fact that, together with a direct relationship with …

As a functional feature of our species, language, it is argued, cannot be understood outside
the domain of biological organization. The established view of language as a tool used for …

DISEÑO INSTITUCIONAL E INNOVACIONES DEMOCRÁTICAS realizar, cuya importancia
está en que devienen estructuras de irradiación de los valores socialmente considerados …

Dementia is the progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the
body beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Dementia persons cannot …

This article presents silence as a cognitive tool to comprehend the environment. Two
dimensions of silence are addressed: a natural mechanism and human beings' social and …

Design has usually been linked to art and applied in scenarios related to everyday life. Even
when design has, on occasion, made its way into the world of academia, it has always been …

In this paper, first I review the basic theories—concept and computational realization of
abduction. Then I brefly review chance discovery which focuses on rare and novel events. In …

Глубокий кризис, переживаемый наукой о языке, в значительной мере обусловлен
традиционным семиотическим подходом к языку как инструменту: это выводит его за …