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Record 1 2026-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle

Spanish

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Record 2 2026-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Periodicals
  • Agriculture - General
OBS

Publication of the Canadian Organic Growers Inc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de périodiques
  • Agriculture - Généralités
OBS

Publication de Canadian Organic Growers Inc.

Spanish

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Record 3 2026-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle

Spanish

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Record 4 2024-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

Artificial cognition is how [an] artificial [intelligence] machine ... learns, integrates, recalls, ingests, processes, and uses the information that it receives.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
CONT

La cognition artificielle (mathématique, informatique) est profondément différente de la cognition naturelle (biopsychologique), et les sciences cognitives appliquées aux deux genres de cognition commencent à peine à étudier les propriétés et fonctionnements des grands modèles développés en apprentissage profond.

Spanish

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Record 5 2020-04-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cognitive Psychology
DEF

[The] tendency to selectively accept and dismiss information to support one's identity.

CONT

Identity-protective cognition, like other forms of motivated reasoning, operates through a variety of discrete psychological mechanisms. Individuals are more likely to seek out information that supports than information that challenges positions associated with their group identity (biased search). They are also likely [to selectively] credit or dismiss a form of evidence or argument based on its congeniality to their identity (biased assimilation).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie cognitive

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Psicología cognitiva
DEF

Tendencia de los individuos a elegir y procesar información de maneras destinadas a proteger su estatus como miembros de un grupo o subcultura deseable.

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Record 6 2020-03-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cognitive Psychology
CONT

Conscious cognition refers to the way a student processes the information presented by a given display (e.g. rehearsal, repetition, exemplifying).

CONT

... these two lines of research suggest that executive control mechanisms interact with unconscious information processing in several ways and are thus not exclusive to the domain of conscious cognition ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie cognitive
CONT

Si l'on commence ainsi à comprendre les opérations mentales les plus automatiques, l'un des défis de la psychologie reste d'élucider les mécanismes de leur contrôle conscient. Loin de constituer le dernier refuge de la subjectivité, la cognition consciente suit également des lois psychologiques universelles.

Spanish

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Record 7 2013-03-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Psychology
DEF

[The set of] cognitive processes and activity that accompany and mediate social interactions.

CONT

Viewed broadly, "social cognition" embraces everything about the cognitive mediation of social interaction. But viewed more narrowly, social cognition refers to cognition of social objects – people (including ourselves), the social situations in which we encounter them, and the interpersonal behaviors that transpire in those situations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie sociale
DEF

Ensemble des processus mentaux qui sous-tendent les interactions sociales [...]

Spanish

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Record 8 2013-03-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Diagnostic Aids (Psychology)
  • Clinical Psychology
DEF

[A subjective scale that] determines the uniformity of subjective perception of cognitive deficits in patients [with schizophrenia].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aides au diagnostic (Psychologie)
  • Psychologie clinique
DEF

Échelle qui mesure les dimensions subjectives de la cognition chez les patients souffrant de schizophrénie.

Spanish

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Record 9 2013-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Sociology of Childhood and Adolescence
CONT

Research on infant social cognition is fundamental to understanding the way infants, and ultimately adults, are able to operate in the social world. Infants are born into rich social environments, in which their most important task is to learn how to interact effectively with other people, and then benefit from those others to learn about the world.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie cognitive
  • Sociologie de l'enfance et de l'adolescence
CONT

Les recherches menées sur la cognition sociale des nourrissons sont fondamentales pour comprendre comment les nourrissons, et ultimement les adultes, sont capables de fonctionner dans le monde social. Les bébés naissent dans des environnements sociaux riches, dans lesquels leur tâche la plus importante est d’apprendre à interagir de façon efficace avec d’autres personnes puis de profiter des autres pour découvrir le monde.

Key term(s)
  • cognition sociale des nourrissons
  • cognition sociale chez les nourrissons
  • cognition sociale chez les bébés

Spanish

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Record 10 2013-01-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Sociology of Childhood and Adolescence
CONT

Early Social Cognition in Three Cultural Contexts. The influence of culture on cognitive development is well established for school age and older children. But almost nothing is known about how different parenting and socialization practices in different cultures affect infants' and young children's earliest emerging cognitive and social-cognitive skills.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie cognitive
  • Sociologie de l'enfance et de l'adolescence
CONT

[Les auteurs] ont présenté d’excellents articles sur le développement de la cognition sociale chez les jeunes enfants. Comme ils le font remarquer dans leurs travaux, les manifestations de la cognition sociale dans les premières années incluent une compréhension de l’intentionnalité, des buts et des motifs, la capacité d’identifier les émotions des autres, [...] ainsi que d’autres habiletés qui reflètent la capacité d’interpréter son propre état mental et [...] celui des autres.

Spanish

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Record 11 2013-01-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cognitive Psychology
DEF

[A theorical framework stating that] cognitive processes are deeply rooted in the body’s interactions with the world.

CONT

Embodied cognition ... The general theory contends that cognitive processes develop when a tightly coupled system emerges from real-time, goal-directed interactions between organisms and their environment; the nature of these interactions influences the formation and further specifies the nature of the developing cognitive capacities.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie cognitive
DEF

[Cadre théorique qui propose que] la cognition est une activité qui est structurée par le corps et le contexte dans lequel il se situe.

Spanish

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Record 12 2010-05-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Behaviour

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comportement animal

Spanish

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Record 13 2009-08-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
  • Educational Psychology
DEF

The mental faculties of perception, thought, reason, and memory, as distinct from emotion and volition.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
  • Psychologie scolaire
DEF

Ensemble des activités et des entités qui se rapportent à la connaissance et à la fonction qui la réalise.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Psicología (Generalidades)
  • Psicología educacional
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Record 14 2007-05-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mental Disorders
  • Criminal Psychology
  • Psychology (General)
CONT

It was hypthosized that depressive cognition is a function of both mood-congruent information processing and the valence of the information being processed. An interaction between these two factors was also expected: Neutral information would be interpreted in a negative direction by participants showing a mild but stable depressed mood but interpreted in a positive direction by nondepressed persons [...]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Troubles mentaux
  • Psychologie criminelle
  • Psychologie (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 15 2004-06-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Optics
  • Photoelectricity and Electron Optics
DEF

The process of using an optical device to sense the meaning of a character.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Optique
  • Photo-électricité et optique électronique

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Óptica
  • Fotoelectricidad y óptica electrónica
DEF

Detección óptica de un carácter visualizado, diseñado de forma que la máquina o equipo selecciona, desde su memoria, la forma del carácter más cercana al carácter que se ha visualizado.

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Record 16 1995-11-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal Actions
  • Property Law (civil law)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Actions en justice
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (droit civil)

Spanish

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Record 17 1994-05-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computers and Calculators

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Ordinateurs et calculateurs
OBS

Vocabulaire Rint-Nouvelles Technologies de l'information, 1994.

Spanish

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Record 18 1991-05-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Graphics
DEF

Ability dealing with the recognition of shapes and the representation of objects and spatial relations in perception and imagery.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Infographie

Spanish

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Record 19 1990-06-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle

Spanish

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Record 20 1989-12-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

"Knowing" in the broadest sense: perception, memory, judgment. And the result of such a process.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
DEF

Pensée rationnelle.

DEF

Processus par lequel un organisme ou un dispositif acquiert des informations sur l'environnement et les interprète pour régler son comportement. Connaissance par perception, mémorisation, raisonnement, conceptualisation.

OBS

La cognition correspond à l'interprétation, ou à la représentation, de l'état du monde.

Spanish

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Record 21 1986-05-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

What level of understanding can we hope to successfully make computers reach in the next ten years? The answer is somewhere in the middle of the spectrum: making sense - cognitive understanding - complete empathy.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
CONT

En allant du niveau "signal" au niveau le plus élevé de la compréhension, les types de connaissances nécessaires à un système complet de compréhension de la parole sont ... phonétique, phonologique, morphémique, prosodique, syntaxique, sémantique et pragmatique.

Spanish

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