Russian State University for the Humanities

About: Russian State University for the Humanities is a education organization based out in Moscow, Russia. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Computer science & Population. The organization has 384 authors who have published 541 publications receiving 4658 citations. The organization is also known as: RSUH & RGGU.

Conceptual knowledge of emotions includes somatosensory component: Evidence from modality-switch cost effect

Abstract: According to embodied framework, conceptual knowledge of emotions is based on the same mechanisms of simulation that are used by any other concepts. Despite some evidence concerning the somatosensory component of such knowledge, most of the data deal with the motor component. In two experiments (original and replication), we examined the involvement of somatosensory modality in the simulation of emotional concepts using the paradigm of conceptual modality-switch cost effect. No switching costs occurred when participants shifted from the emotional to the somatosensory modality. But they took place when participants shifted from the somatosensory to the emotional modality. These results support hypotheses that emotional knowledge includes the somatosensory modality but is not limited to it (other modalities are also included; e.g., interoceptive and motor). We also obtained unexpected results: Switching between the auditory and somatosensory modalities and from the auditory to the emotional modality did not...

Two Implications and Dual-Process Theories of Reasoning

Abstract: Dual-process theories of reasoning assume a fundamental difference between two cognitive systems: fast and intuitive System 1, and slow and rational System 2, grounded on rules of logical inference. Peirce’s diagrammatic logic challenges the dichotomy. Both systems are based on similar inferential connections, but the former draws its conclusions as modelled in positive implicational fragment of the latter. This logical connection between two systems explains empirical results from Wason’s card selection task without appeal to confirmation bias.

Covert channel invisibility theorem

Abstract: We consider a sequence of finite products of a finite set. A statistical test problem is defined on every product. Consistent sequences of probability measures on these products of the set generate probability measures on the set of infinite sequences. Sufficient conditions of nonexistence for consistent test sequences are proved. These results may be interpreted from the point of view of covert channel secrecy.

Evolutionary Implications of Cross-Cultural Correlations:

Abstract: In 1896 Boas argued that “if anthropology desires to establish laws governing the growth of culture it must not confine itself to comparing the results of the growth alone, but whenever such is feasible it must compare the processes of growth” (p. 280). However, later it was argued that evolutionary inferences could not and should not be made from synchronic data. But is the comparative evolutionary method of anthropology entirely illegitimate? In this article, the authors test this hypothesis using synchronic and diachronic data on kinship organization and terminology from the Circum-Mediterranean region. This test appears to support the idea that inferences about specific evolutionary developments can be made on the basis of a synchronic association. Contrary to most anthropological discourse of the recent decades, the authors maintain that a synchronic association can serve as a sound basis for making inferences about specific evolutionary developments.