Virtual reality displays, such as head-mounted displays (HMD), afford us a superior spatial
awareness by leveraging our vestibular and proprioceptive senses, as compared to …

This article reviews the effects of lesions to the frontal cortex on the ability to carry out active
thought, namely, to reason, think flexibly, produce strategies, and formulate and realize …

A comprehensive proposal for a conceptual framework for describing conscious experience
in dreams, integrating philosophy of mind, sleep and dream research, and interdisciplinary …

Strong AI—artificial intelligence that is in all respects at least as intelligent as humans—is
still out of reach. Current AI lacks common sense, that is, it is not able to infer, understand, or …

Inferences about spatial arrangements and relations like “The Porsche is parked to the left of
the Dodge and the Ferrari is parked to the right of the Dodge, thus, the Porsche is parked to …

All living creatures inscribe their activity in space. Human beings acquire knowledge of this
space by traversing it, listening to verbal descriptions, and looking at maps, atlases, and …

Abstract Reasoning is a process of inference from given premises to new conclusions.
Deductive reasoning is truth-preserving and conclusions can only be either true or false …

This paper proposes how various disciplinary theories of cognition may be combined into a
unifying, sub-symbolic, computational theory of cognition. The following theories are …

This paper examines second-language vocabulary memorization. The use of augmented
reality (AR) under visuospatial bootstrapping (VSB), a novel approach developed from work …

An important characteristic of knowledge is that it exists at multiple levels of abstraction. This
article illustrates how different levels of abstraction influence perception, comprehension …