Climate change and other challenges to the stability and functioning of natural and
managed environmental systems are driven by increasing anthropogenic domination of the …

Objectives Falsification is regarded as a cornerstone of science. Anomalous data—even
when highly credible—do not always lead to an adjustment of theory. In this paper, we …

Philosopher Ned Block argues in this book that there is a" joint in nature" between
perception and cognition and that by exploring the nature of that joint, one can solve …

The rapid advancement of computing technologies has facilitated the implementation of
AIED (Artificial Intelligence in Education) applications. AIED refers to the use of AI (Artificial …

Research over the past decades has demonstrated the explanatory power of emotions,
feelings, motivations, moods, and other affective processes when trying to understand and …

Synthetic biology and bioengineering provide the opportunity to create novel embodied
cognitive systems (otherwise known as minds) in a very wide variety of chimeric …

Flexibility is a hallmark of memories that depend on the hippocampus. For navigating
animals, flexibility is necessitated by environmental changes such as blocked paths and …

We advance an account that grounds cognition, specifically decision-making, in an activity
all organisms as autonomous systems must perform to keep themselves viable—controlling …

Predictions of the timelines for when machines will be able to perform general cognitive
activities that rival humans, or even the arrival of “super intelligence”, range from years to …

Despite a growing number of functional MRI studies reporting exercise-induced changes
during cognitive processing, a systematic determination of the underlying neurobiological …