Adult semantic memory has been traditionally conceptualized as a relatively static memory
system that consists of knowledge about the world, concepts, and symbols. Considerable …

Uncertainty is an intrinsic part of life; most events, affairs, and questions are uncertain. A key
problem in behavioral sciences is how the mind copes with uncertain information. Quantum …

A central goal of neuroscience is to understand the representations formed by brain activity
patterns and their connection to behaviour. The classic approach is to investigate how …

Over the past years, distributed semantic representations have proved to be effective and
flexible keepers of prior knowledge to be integrated into downstream applications. This …

Similarity and categorization are fundamental processes in human cognition that help
complex organisms make sense of the cacophony of information in their environment. These …

Much of our understanding of human thinking is based on probabilistic models. This
innovative book by Jerome R. Busemeyer and Peter D. Bruza argues that, actually, the …

Multidimensionalscaling (MDS) isatechniquefortheanalysisofsimilarity or dissimilarity data
on a set of objects. Such data may be intercorrelations of test items, ratings of similarity on …

Two studies were conducted to obtain insights on how consumers form attitudes toward
brand extensions,(ie, use of an established brand name to enter a new product category). In …

The idea for this book came from the time the authors spent at the Statistics and Applied
Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina …

Embeddings have undoubtedly been one of the most influential research areas in Natural
Language Processing (NLP). Encoding information into a low-dimensional vector …