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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Mental simulation"”.
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Optimizing sensorimotor behaviors through information integration and mental simulation
… how implicit temporal rhythms are used during mental simulation of object trajectory with partial observations. By designing psychophysics experiments with varying spatial and temporal structures, I show that humans simulate temporal rhythms in addition to the kinematics when interacting with …
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Event prediction for modeling mental simulation in naturalistic decision making
… of the Western Hemisphere use modeling and simulation tools as an essential part of performing analysis and training their leaders and war fighters. Tremendous resources have been applied to increase the level of fidelity and detail with which real combat units are represented in computer …
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MENTAL SIMULATION AND PERCEPTIONS OF PROBABILITY: HOW COUNTERFACTUALLY REFLECTING UPON THE PAST ALTERS PERCEPTIONS OF MEANING
… and how its perception can be altered through mental simulation. Research suggests that counterfactual thinking can increase the perceived meaning of an event, but the influence of semifactuals on meaning has not yet been evaluated. This research examines the effect of counterfactual and …
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Learning to act with objects, relations and physics
… Virtual Tools game, structured action spaces and mental simulation are crucial to explaining human behavior. These action spaces are both object-oriented and relational, and their representations can be learned with techniques such as deep reinforcement learning or program induction to enable …
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A Possible Self Program for the Foreign Language Class
… frameworks that support the use of mental imagery for possible self enhancement; and articulate and evaluate a pedagogical intervention designed for the foreign language class. This intervention will allow students to explore and develop prominent and vivid mental representations …
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The interpretation and exploitation of information in criminal investigations
… hypotheses about investigative information using mental simulation, tolerating high levels of uncertainty throughout the ‘investigation’ and paying particular attention to investigative opportunities. This research suggests that successful detectives need the ability to imagine multiple potential …
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The interpretation and exploitation of information in criminal investigations
… hypotheses about investigative information using mental simulation, tolerating high levels of uncertainty throughout the ‘investigation’ and paying particular attention to investigative opportunities. This research suggests that successful detectives need the ability to imagine multiple potential …
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Seizure prediction and control in epilepsy
… (Bruzzo et al. 2007), in order to study mental simulation of biological and non-biological movement in paranoid schizophrenics (PS). Immediately after the presentation of a real movement, participants had to imagine or re-enact the very same movement. By key release and key press …
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Examining the Preparatory Function of Counterfactual Thinking: Evidence on Content, Benefits, and Evaluation of Forgone Outcomes
… posits that the primary purpose of this form of mental simulation is to prepare individuals for the future. However, recent findings have presented challenges to this dominant view. The debate on this topic has recently centered around the possibility that these contradictory results may have …
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Counterfactual, prevention and causal thinking about workplace slip and trip accidents : a study of safety professionals, managers and accident subjects
… follows an unexpected event and involves the mental simulation of an alternative outcome which can be either better or worse than the original one. In general, exceptional and controllable events are selected for change over those that are routine and uncontrollable, and actions are likely to …
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Examining the impact of multisensory language on perception and imagination: how can botanic gardens use audio description to enhance access for blind and partially sighted visitors?
… vivid sensory imagery due to the evidence for mental simulation, and the over-arching theory of grounded cognition. The secondary hypothesis is that metaphorical language might be more effective in helping listeners generate imagery due to the ability of metaphor to convey vivid and specific …
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From Words to Worlds: Bridging Language and Thought
… our plans. Language, in turn, stocks our mental inventories with new concepts and theories, communicating ideas that we might not otherwise have discovered by thinking on our own even over the course of a lifetime. How do we make meaning from language, and how, in turn, does the meaning we …
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Neural Mechanisms of Motor Imagery and Training-Induced Plasticity: Hypnotizability Relevance to Microgravity Adaptation
… motor skills. Motor imagery (MI), defined as the mental simulation of movement without overt execution, can counteract sensorimotor alterations by activating the sensorimotor system independently from actual movement execution. On Earth, both physical and MI training (MIT) are reported to improve …
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Action Simulations in Acquisition Cost Estimates
… The current work examines the influence of mental simulations of product acquisition on estimates of acquisition costs. We suggest that simulations of product acquisition lead estimates to reflect the influence of consumers' current physical states on the experience of a particular cost. …
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Hands-On Realism: Perception, Imagination, and Speech in Brecht's Poetry
… encounter with recollections from the past and simulations of possible futures. In such poems, against the tempting fiction of the passive spectator, Brecht shows us perceivers in action, who bring reality dynamically and critically into view. Chapter 1 outlines the striking echo of such poems …
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Probing student engagement with size and distance in introductory astronomy
… two camps: those that assume that thinking is a "mentalese activity" involving symbolic manipulation. Most importantly, these symbolic elements are "amodal" in that they are not derived from the sensory modalities. On the other hand, Embodied Cognition assumes that these symbols arise from the …