The main objective of this article is to review the phenomenological theory of time in philosophy and the process of symbol formation in developmental psychology in order to explore a first approach to the integration of ...

Symbolic objects are cognitive tools children must learn to master very early in life. A crucial factor in cognitive development is the instruction or informational support children receive in social contexts. While numerous ...

Lazy Initialization (LI) allows symbolic execution to effectively deal with heap-allocated data structures, thanks to a significant reduction in spurious and redundant symbolic structures. Bounded lazy initialization (BLI) ...

The ability to represent quantities, either in a symbolic or non-symbolic format, predicts calculation skills. Recording the saccades during gazing at these stimuli allows us to infer the cognitive processing taking place ...

In this paper, we describe a digital scenario where we simulated the emergence of self-organized symbol-based communication among artificial creatures inhabiting a virtual world of unpredictable predatory events. In our ...