Conceptual spaces and consciousness: Integrating cognitive and affective processes

International Journal of Machine Consciousness

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 127-143

  Pereira Jr , Alfredo ^a   Almada, Leonardo Ferreira ^b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

conceptual spaces; Consciousness; correlations; homeomorphism; methodology

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL SPACES; CONSCIOUSNESS; CORRELATIONS; HOMEOMORPHISM; METHODOLOGY;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; GALLIUM; SEMANTICS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 79960703961     PISSN: 17938430     EISSN: 17938473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S1793843011000649     Document Type: Article

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