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Does anyone have any pointers to cogpsych work on the locus of memory for
concurrent goals? I need to understand what cognitive resources are taxed by
maintaining several concurrent goals, each intimately associated with a complex
(and possibly interacting) deep domain model.

I'm trying to work out whether task (read `subgoal') -oriented displays could
be an influential factor in relieving cognitive load in this situation.

Comments welcome.

--
Graham Higgins 
<< gjh@hplb.hpl.hp.com || gjh@hplb.hp.co.uk || gjh@hplb.uucp >>
<< My opinions above are exactly that: my own, and opinions. >>
From: jdover01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
Newsgroups: sci.cognitive
Subject: Re: Proposal for FAQ
Date: 29 Sep 92 01:36:38 GMT
Organization: University of Louisville

In article <1992Sep23.005500.2102@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, jiazhang@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Jiajie Zhang) writes:
> In article <1992Sep23.000633.15121@u.washington.edu> monaghan@cac.washington.edu (Tracy Monaghan {IS}) writes:
> 
> <>>	intelligence, consciouness, awareness, thinking, learning
> <>
> <>Not only the faq should not contain definitions for these terms, there
> <>should be a solid explanation of why there are not definitions for
> <>them. If you really believe that these terms are easily defined, or (in
> <>fact) definable at all, then you are in for a rude surprise. For
> <>evidence, please see the recent wars in comp.ai.philosophy concerning
> <>attempts to define any of these terms.
> <
> <Now I never said these were definable, easily or otherwise.  It just seems
> <if you're going to study in a field, you should be able to define the your
> <area of study.  So to make it (possibly) easier, how about a definition of
> <cognition? 
> 
> Oh, yes, it's indeed easier.
> 
> cognition = intelligence + consciouness + awareness + thinking + learning
> 
> :-)
> 
> Jiajie Zhang
> zhang@canyon.psy.ohio-state.edu

Ohhh, grief! "Cognition" and  "Thinking" are generally synonymous; 
Intelligence = f(learning); and Consciousness = Awareness is accepted by most.
But a FAQ? How many topics in Ethology, Neuropsychology, Linguistics,
Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Psychology, Artificial Intelligence,
Human-Factors, &c. should be included/covered?

Instead, if anybody's been keeping track, how about a group bibliography, i.e.,
just a list of the works cited, discussed, or suggested (as a reply to a
request for info.) in this newsgroup?

My $0.02 worth.
Newsgroups: sci.cognitive,sci.lang
From: peeters@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (bert peeters)
Subject: Cognitive linguistics summary - Sorry...
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 06:15:14 GMT

The textfile called "Cognitive linguistics" which I offered to make
available to anyone interested was actually so far requested by about
15 people. Due to my ignorance in electronic file transmission I sent
to all these people a corrupted file, a fact one quick respondent
kindly pointed out to me. The problem has now been fixed, and as 
someone suggested that files of about 25K were within the limits of
what can be sent via the newsgroups rather than privately, I will
now send the whole thing that way. Ignore it if you wish; enjoy it
otherwise. Sorry about the mess.

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Department of Modern Languages               002 202344
University of Tasmania at Hobart        Fax: 002 207813
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Newsgroups: sci.cognitive
From: hucka@engin.umich.edu (Michael Hucka)
Subject: Hampson's "Connectionist Problem Solving"
Reply-To: hucka@engin.umich.edu
Organization: University of Michigan AI Lab
Distribution: sci
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 05:22:58 GMT

I recently came across a reference to a book by Steven Hampson:

  Connectionist Problem Solving
    Steven Hampson
    1990, Birkhauser, Boston.

It is supposed to present a connectionist model of adaptive problem solving.

I was just wondering whether anyone had read this and could offer a review of
it.
--
-- Mike
_____________________________________________________________________________
Mike Hucka                     | Internet: hucka@engin.umich.edu    
University of Michigan AI Lab  | 1101 Beal Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2110
Newsgroups: sci.cognitive,cs.cogsci,ac.q.500
From: dgiddens@ucs.indiana.edu (Deb Giddens - SPHS)
Subject: A Colloquium Announcement.  (Notice the start time - 3:00pm)
Organization: Indiana University
Errors-To: cognoscente-admin@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 14:41:48 GMT



  The Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences
               Indiana University


                Colloquium Series

                    presents



                  David Ingram
                    Professor
         University of British Columbia



     "The Categories of Phonological Delay"


      Friday, October 9th,  3:00 - 4:00pm
                 SPHS Room 018


Co-Sponsored by:  Department of Linguistics; Speech Research
Laboratory, Department of Psychology; Learnability Project,
Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences
Newsgroups: sci.cognitive,cs.cogsci,ac.q.500
From: artist1@rdrc.rpi.edu (Artist # 1)
Subject: Need intro/popular txt (exists?) on quantum neurodynamics
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 04:46:03 GMT

I read with interest Mr. Erwin's description of the Appalacian Conf.
on Behavioral Neurodynamics.

Could someone guide me to an introductory or popular text outlining
quantum neurodynamics, which was a primary topic at the conference?

Please write me at
artist1@rdrc.rpi.edu

Thanks,

David Blair

Newsgroups: sci.cognitive
From: CARDOSO <CARD@UNB.CA>
Subject: CogSci Program
Organization: The University of New Brunswick
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 03:40:12 GMT

Greetings!

I am part  of a group of people planing to start an undergraduate program
in Cognitive Science at the University of New Brunswick.  We are presently
discussing what courses should make up a suitable curriculum.  (What
courses are other universities offering? Would you mail us your calendar?)
If you have a Cog. Sci. program at your university, or if you have some
thoughts or expertise in this area, please share with us some of your ideas.
Your advice will be most appreciated.
Please email your comments to me, at the address below, or post to this
group if you feel it appropriate.
Thank you.

John Cardoso
Psychology Department.
University of New Brunswick
Fredericton, N.B., Canada, E3B 6E4
(email: cardoso@unb.ca)

Newsgroups: sci.cognitive,cs.cogsci,ac.q.500
From: Candace Shertzer <cshertze@silver.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: REMINDER:  Cognitive Science Colloquium tonight (10/5) in PSY101
Organization: Indiana University
Errors-To: cognoscente-admin@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 14:16:31 GMT
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
From: al+@pitt.edu (Alan Lesgold, Secretary/Treasurer)
Newsgroups: sci.cognitive
Subject: Cognitive Science Society Membership Requests
Date: 1 Oct 92 19:23:56 GMT
Organization: Cognitive Science Society
Originator: al@rift.lrdc.pitt.edu

Due to the number of requests generated by my earlier message, we are running a
couple days behind in sending out applications for membership in the Society.
Please be patient, but contact me if you don't receive email confirmation
of your requesty within a week.  Thanks.
--Alan
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Newsgroups: sci.cognitive,cs.cogsci,ac.q.500
From: Robert Peterson <ropeters@milo.psych.indiana.edu>
Subject: Cognitive Lunch, 10/7/92
Organization: Indiana University
Errors-To: cognoscente-admin@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 14:47:04 GMT


Cognitive Lunch, Wed., Oct. 7
Psychology Conference Room; 12:15-1:15


Speaker:  Dr. Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov
          Department of Psychology
          University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

                 
	    
	    Response Time Analysis of Sensory Processing


Simple RT is assumed to be additively decomposable into a
signal-dependent and a signal-independent components, of which the
first is of primary interest for sensory processing models and the
second is a nuisance component ideally to be "subtracted" from RT.
Given the universal applicability of Grice's modelling language to
simple (and choice) RT, the two components can be modelled in terms of
two concatenated deterministic processes (a signal-dependent and a
signal-independent one) each terminating when it reaches a certain
critical level: the critical levels for both processes are
stochastically preset and signal-independent. A traditional approach
then will translate into the assumption that the distributions of the
two critical levels are mutually independent, which is supposed to be a
great and almost forced simplification, if RTs are to be analyzable at
all.  In fact, the simplification turns out to be quite dubious, and in
practice it forces one to reduce RT distributions to their first two
moments only.  A much greater simplification, appreciably increasing
the analytic power of RT analysis, is provided by the assumption that
the two critical levels are positively rank-order-correlated: a low
"readiness to detect" corresponds to a low "readiness to respond,"
using one possible interpretation.  Under certain rather weak
assumptions the two models can be tested against each other, and at
least in one such experimental test the positive
rank-order-correlation model (in its strongest version -- a functional
interdependence) wins convincingly. This test is related to visual
motion detection, and if one accepts the positive rank-order
correlation model, the potential falsifiability of any specific model
of motion detection increases manyfold.   The experimental test is
based on so-called asymptotic zero assumption: the signal dependent
component converges to zero as signal strength increases.  If one drops
this assumption, the results of the test allow another interpretation:
the signal-independent component of RT is virtually a constant.
Surprisingly, this is the implicit assumption made by Grice in his
actual modelling of RT distributions, the assumption which has been
universally regarded as totally unjustifiable.
From: mora@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (juan mora)
Newsgroups: sci.cognitive,cs.cogsci,ac.q.500
Subject: Syntax talk next Wednesday
Date: 2 Oct 92 23:57:08 GMT
Organization: Indiana University
Errors-To: cognoscente-admin@silver.ucs.indiana.edu


	The Syntax Reading Group at Indiana University presents the
third lecture in its Multidisciplinary Seminar:

	The Indiana Lecture Series in Formal Syntax:
	Phrase structure and the Lexicon

sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculties


                           Peggy Speas

                University of Massachusetts, Amherst
 
            NULL ARGUMENTS IN FUNCTIONAL PROJECTIONS
 
      		     Wednesday October 7 1992

		  Ballantine Hall 005, at 7:30 pm
 

If you need a copy of the abstract and information about background 
readings, send a message to JROORYCK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU
Newsgroups: sci.space
From: st17a@judy.uh.edu (University Space Society)
Subject: Re: Controversy over V-2 anniversary
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 21:03:00 GMT

In article <1ao4dsINNe1k@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, bafta@cats.ucsc.edu (Shari L Brooks) writes...
> 
>In article <4OCT199219005821@judy.uh.edu> 
>wingo%cspara.decnet@Fedex.Msfc.Nasa.Gov writes (in response to Mary Schafer's
>post decrying the WWII actions leading up to the creation/manufacture of the
>V-2):
> [stuff deleted] 
>I fail to see how the actions of these others have any bearing whatsoever
>on the actions Van Braun did or did not do whilst still in Nazi Germany.
>If people, corporations or governments managed to get away with what some
>would consider inexcusable crimes, that does not *excuse* the crimes of
>those who were caught.  Good grief, this is a lesson we all learned in
>elementary school.
> 
>-- 
>If you blow fire against the wind, take care to not get the smoke in your eyes.
>      Big & Growly Dragon-monster        |       bafta@cats.ucsc.edu
>     ------> shari brooks <-------       |       bafta@ucscb.ucsc.edu
>                             All opinions are my own.

Like I said you missed the point. You deleted the part about concerning the
fact that nowhere has Von Braun or any of the team outside of Arthur Rudolf
EVER been accused of mistreating anoyone that worked for them.  Arthur Rudolf
who was was in a postition of authority at the Meittlework plant has been 
accused but no evidence has ever been brought forth to support the accusations.
He was railroaded out of the US by the OSI by them threatening to take his
NASA pension. If you are so concerned about this why do you not look at
what the Israeli's have said about Rudolf which is that they are not interested
because he was not involved in the mistreatment. Now if you want to keep this
up either come up with some evidence that neither the US or Israeli government
has or just shut up because you do  not know what you are talking about.

Dennis, University of Alabama in Huntsville


Newsgroups: sci.space
From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)
Subject: Re: Space and Presidential Politics
Organization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow
Distribution: sci
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 20:00:44 GMT

In article <PGWRES01.92Sep30141946@c52.ucs.usl.edu> pgwres01@ucs.usl.edu (Fraering Philip G) writes:

>\My sources within the Clinton campaign...

>Allen, I have a question for you:
>How do you get "sources?"

Generally from other sources :-)

Usually if I know who I want to talk to I call them and try them
directly or via their staff. I explain to them about the column I write
and ask if they can give me information. Generally they appreciate that
somebody is helping them do what they want to do and help. Frequently as
I work with them on one issue, other issues come up and they connect
me with other sources who can help with that issue. Often these people
will only talk on condition I never use their name.

  Allen
-- 
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Allen W. Sherzer | "If they can put a man on the Moon, why can't they     |
|  aws@iti.org     |  put a man on the Moon?"                               |
+----------------------206 DAYS TO FIRST FLIGHT OF DCX----------------------+
From: m0102@tnc.UUCP (FRANK NEY)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: another sad anniversary
Date: 4 Oct 92 18:21:12 GMT
Reply-To: m0102@tnc.UUCP (FRANK NEY)
Organization: The Next Challenge, Fairfax, Va.


How about posting the full address of the DSES so that I can contact
them?  Boulder CO just won't work fast enough.
-- 
The Next Challenge - Public Access Unix in Northern Va. - Washington D.C.
703-803-0391 To log in for trial and account info.
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Miscellaneous responses to hypersonic questions
Date: 29 Sep 92 19:34:09 GMT
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <BvBF4M.6IE@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Josh 'K' Hopkins) writes:
>>... said that budget constraints forced it's retirement
>>not damage.  it was damaged, but not totalled.  also they siad that
>>the damage was avoidable and that they could fix and work their way
>>up to mach 8, maybe higher...  so to test scramjet technology.
>
>My informationa says the A-2 was "damaged to an irreperable degree," ...

Miller's "The X-Planes" says "...some serious damage, not the least of
which was the heat damage in the ventral fin area, and some additional
heat-related damage to other parts of the basic structure.  In light of
these problems [the heat damage, the poor performance of the ablator,
and the loss of the dummy scramjet], and in consideration of the fact
that ... X-15A-2 was obviously nearing the end of its service life, a
decision was made to ground it..."

>>does anyone know what the Vmax for the X-15 was? ...
>Top speed was 4,519 mph (7,273 kph) acheived by William Knight.  I don't 
>know what the structural limits were...

Design top speed for the original X-15s was 6600 ft/s, 4500 mi/hr, about
Mach 7.  When X-15-2 crashed, it was rebuilt into X-15A-2, with stretched
fuselage and provision for external tanks.  The A design was intended for
Mach 8 maximum, although 6.7 was the highest actually achieved, on a
mission specifically aimed at maximum speed.  There was some design work
done on a delta-wing X-15 meant for Mach 8.

Before anyone gets too intoxicated about reviving the program, do remember
that the fin-mounted scramjet on X-15A-2 was *not* capable of propelling
the aircraft to any useful extent, and never would have been.  It was
purely an experiment.  An X-15 *powered* by a scramjet would have required
major redesign.
-- 
There is nothing wrong with making      | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
mistakes, but... make *new* ones. -D.Sim|  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
Newsgroups: sci.space
From: amon@elegabalus.cs.qub.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Clinton and Space Funding
X-Added: Forwarded by Space Digest
Organization: [via International Space University]
Original-Sender: isu@VACATION.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU
Distribution: sci
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 17:12:01 GMT

> There are very many of us who consider government oppression the norm in
> the world today, including in the US, one of the least oppressive.  If it
> turns out that man can survive on a reasonable scale out there, this group
> will want to go, even at considerable financial cost to them.
> 


I second that emotion...
From: higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Nick Szabo Disinformation debunking (Re: Clinton and Space Funding)
Date: 29 Sep 92 15:07:46 GMT
Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

In article <28SEP199219525224@judy.uh.edu>, wingo%cspara.decnet@Fedex.Msfc.Nasa.Gov writes:
>Fission drive has been fully tested and flight qualified. It was abandoned
>shortly thereafter. NERVA was to supplant the S III stage on the saturn V 
>for Apollo twenty, upping the delivered payload to the moon to 98 tons,
>from the baseline Saturn V's 48 tons. Not bad, not bad. 

I'm sure you've talked to the nuke guys.  It would take a *lot* to
re-create  a Nineties NERVA, especially with more stringent
requirements for safety and environment-- assuming Admiral Watkins
were willing to take on this set of headaches and assuming political
opposition didn't make it plain impossible.

The nuclear-rocket people are plowing forward undaunted, God love
'em.  And they are far from hitting their first show-stopper.  But it
will be a steep uphill fight.

>There were 
>movies of the test of the Nerva at the World Space Congress.  It was a 
>completely successful full power 265 minute or hour I forget which test. Do
>you remember Bill? 

No, Dennis, did you sit through the whole thing? (-:

I saw some brief tapes at the Lewis booth and these may be what you
refer to. 

For my money, the best video was at the Sandia booth, where
they showed tests of reactor containment walls.  They put a fully
fueled F-4 on a rocket sled and sent it into a concrete test wall. 
First there's a Phantom, then there's a Phantom with no nose, then
there's a Phantom with no cockpit... all in a growing ball of flame. 
It's like watching the salami get shorter in the butcher shop's
slicer.  Appeals to the destructive small boy in all of us. I haven't
had this kind of fun since Gomez Addams blew up the model trains...

I suppose I have done worse damage myself, pound for pound, colliding
900 GeV protons and antiprotons together.  But the collisions are too
small to see,  I don't have any videotapes, and there is no
satisfying ball of flame.

"Read my lips, Hal:         Bill Higgins   
Open the Pod Bay doors!"    Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
                            Bitnet:     HIGGINS@FNALB.BITNET
                            SPAN/Hepnet: 43011::HIGGINS 
                            Internet:  HIGGINS@FNAL.FNAL.GOV 
Newsgroups: sci.space
From: tomk@netcom.com (Thomas H. Kunich)
Subject: Re: Nick Szabo Disinformation debunking (Re: Clinton and Space Funding)
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 21:51:20 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <1992Sep28.180424.25844@eng.umd.edu> sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu writes:
>
>I can't believe I just read this. Eco-political considerations will keep
>fission out of near-earth space. If you've got fusion, you've got fusion for
>everywhere, unless I'm grossly missing something on the byproducts of a fusion
>plant verses the neuroticism which must go into place to make sure a fission
>plant doesn't end up in the atmosphere.

You don't _have_ fusion. For here or anywhere else.  We _may_ have
fission drive, but just. And it's about as easy to do as colonize
the Mariannas Trench.

Fission drive is at least understood. Fusion is Big Science's way
to more money.
From: higgins@fnalc.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: a twist on dynamic structures
Date: 28 Sep 92 20:19:42 GMT
Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

In article <Bv54qA.C0p@zoo.toronto.edu>, henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
> In article <STILES.92Sep25092841@quik.clearpoint.com> stiles@quik.clearpoint.com writes:
>>How about fuel pellets being accelerated from a ground-based station
>>up into the 'nozzle' of a rocket ship in flight...
> 
> The idea has been proposed before, in the context of interstellar
> propulsion 

Yes.  See articles by C.E. Singer in *Journal of the British
Interplanetary Society* in the late Seventies and early Eighties.  I
believe Singer is now at the University of Illinois.

Engineer of Hijacked Train:      Bill Higgins
"Is this a holdup?"                 
                                 Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Masked Gunman:                      
(Hesitates, looks at partner,    Bitnet: HIGGINS@FNAL.BITNET
looks at engineer again)         SPAN/Hepnet/Physnet: 43011::HIGGINS
"It's a science experiment!"     Internet: HIGGINS@FNAL.FNAL.GOV
From: kmj@newt.phys.unsw.edu.au (Morris Jones)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: They Might Be Giants
Keywords: music, ISY
Date: 5 Oct 92 22:02:43 GMT
Reply-To: kmj@newt.phys.unsw.edu.au (Morris Jones)
Organization: School of Physics / UNSW

I recently saw a copy of the latest CD from "They Might Be Giants". It's
called "Apollo 18", and has some interesting cover art. The booklet
features photos from NASA projects from the sixties, and the back of the
case claims that TMBG are "musical ambassadors for International Space
Year." The ISY logo is also featured.
             Is this an officially endorsed product? How long have these
guys been interested in space?


Morris Jones. University of New South Wales. Happy International Space Year!