Search results for "Memory"

The effect of perceptual interference on prioritization of feature dimensions in visual working memory

2022

Il diavolo, il turco, il giudeo. Rappresentazioni dell’«altro» nella cultura tradizionale siciliana

2020

Oggi forse più di ieri, la ricerca affannosa dell’identità sospinge verso la creazione «di un’alterità assoluta che incombe come un nemico minaccioso» (al-T. Labīb 2006: 29). E questa richiesta di identità collettiva si cimenta nel recupero, nella costruzione, talora nell’invenzione di memorie condivise, nella costruzione e ri-costruzione di un ipotetico passato comunemente vissuto che si fonda su eventi, reali o immaginari (e per questo non meno “veri”) considerati cruciali (Lewis 2000: 27). Il turcu niuru, o più semplicemente u turcu, figura archetipica dell’immaginario mitico-rituale, condensato «di ogni pregiudizio antiarabo e anti islamico» (Said 2001: 35) era e resta, a dispetto di og…

Humanoid Cognitive Robots That Learn by Imitating: Implications for Consciousness Studies.

2018

While the concept of a conscious machine is intriguing, producing such a machine remains controversial and challenging. Here we describe how our work on creating a humanoid cognitive robot that learns to perform tasks via imitation learning relates to this issue. Our discussion is divided into three parts. First, we summarize our previously-detailed framework for advancing the understanding of the nature of phenomenal consciousness. This framework is based on identifying computational correlates of consciousness. Second, we describe a cognitive robotic system that we recently developed that learns to perform tasks by imitating human-provided demonstrations. This humanoid robot uses cause-ef…

Hypervisor-assisted Atomic Memory Acquisition in Modern Systems

2019

Reliable memory acquisition is essential to forensic analysis of a cyber-crime. Various methods of memory acquisition have been proposed, ranging from tools based on a dedicated hardware to software only solutions. Recently, a hypervisor-based method for memory acquisition was proposed (Qi et al., 2017; Martignoni et al., 2010). This method obtains a reliable (atomic) memory image of a running system. The method achieves this by making all memory pages non-writable until they are copied to the memory image, thus preventing uncontrolled modification of these pages. Unfortunately, the proposed method has two deficiencies: (1) the method does not support multiprocessing and (2) the method does…

Lessons learned on student engagement from the nature of pervasive socio‐digital interests and related network participation of adolescents

2021

The rise of modern socio-digital technologies has fundamentally changed the everyday environments in which young people communicate with each other and cultivate interests. To gain a more sophisticated understanding of this phenomenon, this study provides in-depth, qualitative insights into adolescents’ experiences of their socio-digital developmental ecologies. The 15 interview participants were recruited based on a previously conducted questionnaire. The semi-structured theme interview addressed the socio-digital aspects of the participants’ interest-driven behaviours and related networks with the aid of participant-generated egocentric maps. The data not only qualitatively enrich the pic…

Intranasal Insulin Administration to Prevent Delayed Neurocognitive Recovery and Postoperative Neurocognitive Disorder: A Narrative Review

2021

Delayed neurocognitive recovery and postoperative neurocognitive disorders are major complications of surgery, hospitalization, and anesthesia that are receiving increasing attention. Their incidence is reported to be 10–80% after cardiac surgery and 10–26% after non-cardiac surgery. Some of the risk factors include advanced age, level of education, history of diabetes mellitus, malnutrition, perioperative hyperglycemia, depth of anesthesia, blood pressure fluctuation during surgery, chronic respiratory diseases, etc. Scientific evidence suggests a causal association between anesthesia and delayed neurocognitive recovery or postoperative neurocognitive disorders, and various pathophysiologi…

Skrzydlate słowa - (nie)stałe elementy pamięci zbiorowej

2017

Skrzydlate słowa, czyli spopularyzowane częstym przytaczaniem jednostki języka, autorstwo lub źródło których można ustalić, są nieodłącznym elementem pamięci zbiorowej. W artykule zostaje postawione pytanie, na ile stały lub niestały jest to element i co wpływa na utrwalenie danego skrzydlatego słowa w kodzie danej wspólnoty. Częściową odpowiedź dają wyniki ankiety przeprowadzonej wśród studentów.

The Hungarian writer of the Lost Time : memory and poetical imitation in Krúdy Gyula’s work

2015

Gyula Krúdy’s (1878-1933) oeuvre admittedly represents a peculiar kind of conundrum within the confines of literary modernism in Hungarian literature. While the most significant authors of the early 20th century drew inspiration from Western European literary forms and preferred to distance their works from previous prose traditions, Krúdy’s fiction remained closely linked to those narrative forms inherent to 19th century Hungarian prose. His motive for continuing to use these narrative forms did not stem from a blind desire to follow tradition, but rather originated from a conscious effort to renew and reform the heritage bequeathed upon him by past authors. Thus, the strange dichotomy tha…

Single-event effects of space and atmospheric radiation on memory components

2017

Electronic memories are ubiquitous components in electronic systems: they are used to store data, and can be found in all manner of industrial, automotive, aerospace, telecommunication and entertainment systems. Memory technology has seen a constant evolution since the first practical dynamic Random- Access Memories (dynamic RAMs) were created in the late 60's. The demand for ever-increasing performance and capacity and decrease in power consumption was met thanks to a steady miniaturization of the component features: modern memory devices include elements barely a few tens of atomic layers thick and a few hundred of atomic layers wide. The side effect of this constant miniaturization was a…

The feasibility of working memory tablet tasks in predicting scholastic skills in classroom settings

2019

Cognitive assessment in natural group settings facilitates data collection but poses threats to the validity. In this study, tablet‐based working memory (WM) tasks, the counting span, and reading span were used in predicting 12‐year‐old children's (N = 837) scholastic skills and fluid intelligence in a classroom with environmental noise. WM tasks had excellent internal consistency, correlated with scholastic skills, and accounted for more of the variance in cognitive performance (grade point average, fluid intelligence, scholastic skills) compared with individually administered (n = 190) digit span task. Furthermore, the multilevel analysis revealed that compared with the classrooms with no…