Resource-Adaptive Cognitive Processes

Description

This book investigates the adaptation of cognitive processes to limited resources. The central topics of this book are heuristics considered as results of the adaptation to resource limitations, through natural evolution in the case of humans, or through artificial construction in the case of computational systems; the construction and analysis of resource control in cognitive processes; and an analysis of resource-adaptivity within the paradigm of concurrent computation. The editors integrated the results of a collaborative 5-year research project that involved over 50 scientists. After a motivation of resource-adaptive cognitive processes and self-adaptive systems, the editors organized 22 chapters into 5 sections dealing with resource-bounded and resource-adaptive cognitive processes in human information processing and human-machine systems, and the related technology transfer issues. The book will benefit researchers in the fields of artificial intelligence, computer science, computational linguistics and psychology. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Resource-Adaptive Cognitive Processes....Pages 1-10 Front Matter....Pages 11-11 Visuo-spatialWorking Memory as a Limited Resource of Cognitive Processing....Pages 13-34 From Resource-Adaptive Navigation Assistance to Augmented Cognition....Pages 35-53 Error-Induced Learning as a Resource-Adaptive Process in Young and Elderly Individuals....Pages 55-76 An ERP-Approach to Study Age Differences in Cognitive Control Processes....Pages 77-93 Simulating Statistical Power in Latent Growth Curve Modeling: A Strategy for Evaluating Age-Based Changes in Cognitive Resources....Pages 95-117 Conflicting Constraints in Resource-Adaptive Language Comprehension....Pages 119-141 The Evolution of a Connectionist Model of Situated Human Language Understanding....Pages 143-167 Front Matter....Pages 169-169 Assessment of a User’s Time Pressure and Cognitive Load on the Basis of Features of Speech....Pages 171-204 The Shopping Experience of Tomorrow: Human-Centered and Resource-Adaptive....Pages 205-237 Seamless Resource-Adaptive Navigation....Pages 239-265 Linguistic Processing in a Mathematics Tutoring System: Cooperative Input Interpretation and Dialogue Modelling....Pages 267-289 Resource-Bounded Modelling and Analysis of Human-Level Interactive Proofs....Pages 291-311 Front Matter....Pages 313-313 Comparison of Machine Learning Techniques for Bayesian Networks for User-Adaptive Systems....Pages 315-336 Scope Underspecification with Tree Descriptions: Theory and Practice....Pages 337-364 Dependency Grammar: Classification and Exploration....Pages 365-388 ΩMEGA: Resource-Adaptive Processes in an Automated Reasoning System....Pages 389-423