scholarly journals Individuals and non-individuals in cognition and semantics: The mass/count distinction and quantity representation

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Darko Odic ◽  
Paul Pietroski ◽  
Tim Hunter ◽  
Justin Halberda ◽  
Jeffrey Lidz
Keyword(s):  
Quantity Representation

The Event Search Engine

2012 ◽  
pp. 70-82
Author(s):  
Takeshi Okadome ◽  
Yasue Kishino ◽  
Takuya Maekawa ◽  
Koji Kamei ◽  
Yutaka Yanagisawa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Search Engine ◽  
Real World ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Real Space ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Browser ◽  
Quantity Representation ◽  
Data Segment ◽  
The Web

In a remote or local environment in which a sensor network always collects data produced by sensors attached to physical objects, the engine presented here saves the data sent through the Internet and searches for data segments that correspond to real-world events by using natural language (NL) words in a query that are input in an web browser. The engine translates each query into a physical quantity representation searches for a sensor data segment that satisfies the representation, and sends back the event occurrence time, place, or related objects as a reply to the query to the remote or local environment in which the web browser displays them. The engine, which we expect to be one of the upcoming Internet services, exemplifies the concept of symbiosis that bridges the gaps between the real space and the digital space.

Numerical Values Leave a Semantic Imprint on Associated Signs in Monkeys

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilka Diester ◽  
Andreas Nieder
Keyword(s):  
Size Effect ◽  
Distance Effect ◽  
Numerical Distance ◽  
Quantity Representation ◽  
Analog Magnitude ◽  
Visual Sign

Animals and humans share an evolutionary ancient quantity representation which is characterized by analog magnitude features: Discriminating magnitudes becomes more difficult with increasing set sizes (size effect) and with decreasing distance between two numerosities (distance effect). Humans show these effects even with number symbols. We wondered whether monkeys would show the same psychophysical effects with numerical signs and addressed this issue by training three monkeys to associate visual shapes with numerosities. We then confronted the monkeys with trials in which they had to match these visual signs with each other. The monkeys' performance in this shape versus shape protocol was positively correlated with the numerical distance and the magnitudes associated with the signs. Additionally, the monkeys responded significantly slower for signs with higher assigned numerical values. These findings suggest that the numerical values imprint their analog magnitudes characteristics onto the associated visual sign in monkeys, an effect that we also found reflected in the discharges of prefrontal neurons. This provides evidence for a precursor of the human number symbol knowledge.

scholarly journals Quantity representation in children and rhesus monkeys: Linear versus logarithmic scales

2008 ◽  
Vol 100 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Beran ◽  
Julie S. Johnson-Pynn ◽  
Christopher Ready
Keyword(s):  
Rhesus Monkeys ◽  
Quantity Representation

The Event Search Engine

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takeshi Okadome ◽  
Yasue Kishino ◽  
Takuya Maekawa ◽  
Koji Kamei ◽  
Yutaka Yanagisawa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Local Environment ◽  
Real Space ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Occurrence Time ◽  
Web Browser ◽  
Quantity Representation ◽  
Digital Space ◽  
Data Segment ◽  
The Web ◽  
Event Occurrence

In a remote or local environment in which a sensor network always collects data produced by sensors attached to physical objects, the engine presented here saves the data sent through the Internet and searches for data segments that correspond to real-world events by using natural language (NL) words in a query that are input in an web browser. The engine translates each query into a physical quantity representation searches for a sensor data segment that satisfies the representation, and sends back the event occurrence time, place, or related objects as a reply to the query to the remote or local environment in which the web browser displays them. The engine, which we expect to be one of the upcoming Internet services, exemplifies the concept of symbiosis that bridges the gaps between the real space and the digital space.

scholarly journals A wavelet-based framework for acquired radiometric quantity representation and accurate physical rendering

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 221-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luc Claustres ◽  
Mathias Paulin ◽  
Yannick Boucher
Keyword(s):  
Quantity Representation
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