Offloading Cognition onto Cognitive Technology (2009)
"Cognizing" (i.e., thinking, understanding, knowing, and having the capacity to do what cognizers can do) is a mental state. Systems without mental states, such as cognitive technology, can sometimes...
Offloading Cognition onto Cognitive Technology (2009)
"Cognizing" (e.g., thinking, understanding, and knowing) is a mental state. Systems without mental states, such as cognitive technology, can sometimes contribute to human cognition, but that does not...
Grounding Abstract Word Definitions In Prior Concrete Experience (2008)
Chicoisne, Guillaume, Blondin-Masse, Alexandre, Picard, Olivier, Harnad, Stevan
Longman’s Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDOCE) and Cambridge International Dictionary of English (CIDE) have a defining vocabulary of 2000 words from which most but not all of the words are...
Acquiring the Mental Lexicon Through Sensorimotor Category Learning (2008)
St-Louis, Bernard, Corbeil, Marieve, Achim, Andre, Harnad, Stevan
We report the electrophysiological correlates of learning a new category through either direct sensorimotor experience (E) or verbal definition (V). (1) Ss who successfully learned to categorize and...
Offloading Cognition onto Cognitive Technology (2008)
"Cognizing" (e.g., thinking, understanding, and knowing) is a mental state. Systems without mental states, such as cognitive technology, can sometimes contribute to human cognition, but that does not...
: Davis (2008) analyzes citations from 2004-2007 in 11 biomedical journals. For 1,600 of the 11,000 articles (15%), their authors paid the publisher to make them Open Access (OA). The outcome,...
What It Feels Like To Hear Voices: Fond Memories of Julian Jaynes (2008)
Julian Jaynes's profound humanitarian convictions not only prevented him from going to war, but would have prevented him from ever kicking a dog. Yet according to his theory, not only are...
Offloading Cognition onto Cognitive Technology (2008)
"Cognizing" (e.g., thinking, understanding, and knowing) is a mental state. Systems without mental states, such as cognitive technology, can sometimes contribute to human cognition, but that does not...
Offloading cognition onto cognitive technology (2008)
Dror, Itiel E., Harnad, Stevan
"Cognizing" (e.g., thinking, understanding, and knowing) is a mental state. Systems without mental states, such as cognitive technology, can sometimes contribute to human cognition, but that does not...
Davis (2008) analyzes citations from 2004-2007 in 11 biomedical journals. 15% of authors paid to make them Open Access (OA). The outcome is a significant OA citation Advantage, but a small one (21%)....
What It Feels Like To Hear Voices: Fond Memories of Julian Jaynes (2008)
Julian Jaynes's profound humanitarian convictions not only prevented him from going to war, but would have prevented him from ever kicking a dog. Yet according to his theory, not only are...
How To Integrate University and Funder Open Access Mandates (2008)
Research funder open-access mandates (such as NIH's) and university open-access mandates (such as Harvard's) are complementary. There is a simple way to integrate them to make them synergistic and...
The Access/Impact Problem and the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access: An Update (2008)
Harnad, Stevan, Brody, Tim, Vallieres, Francois, Carr, Les, Hitchcock, Steve, Gingras, Yves, ...
The research access/impact problem arises because journal articles are not accessible to all of their would-be users; hence, they are losing potential research impact. The solution is to make all...
Weaken the Harvard OA Mandate To Strengthen It (2008)
Harvard University has mandated Open Access. Some changes are recommended in the wording of the Harvard policy to increase its likelihood of success and to make it more suitable as a model for other...
Optimize the NIH Mandate Now: Deposit Institutionally, Harvest Centrally (2008)
On December 26 2007 a mandate to self-archive all NIH-funded research articles became US law. However, the benefits of Congress's wise decision to mandate deposit immediately upon acceptance for...
India, Open Access, the Law of Karma and the Golden Rule (2008)
India is peculiarly positioned to help herself while helping the entire planet as well. India needs to adopt a national OA self-archiving mandate for all of its research institutions and funders. The...
The Postgutenberg Open Access Journal (2008)
Some think the most radical feature of PostGutenberg journals will be the fact that they are digital and online, but that would be a much more modest development if their contents were to continue to...
Brian Rotman argues that (one) “mind” and (one) “god” are only conceivable, literally, because of (alphabetic) literacy, which allowed us to designate each of these ghosts as an incorporeal,...
Harnad, Stevan, Carr, Les, Swan, Alma, Sale, Arthur, Bosc, Helene
No research institution can afford all the journals its researcers may need, so all articles are losing research impact (usage and citations). Articles that are made “Open Access,” (OA) by...
Maximizing Research Progress Through Open Access Mandates and Metrics (2008)
Harnad, Stevan, Carr, Les, Gingras, Yves
The only thing still needed in order to achieve universal Green OA is universal adoption of Green OA self-archiving mandates by research institutions worldwide, complemented and reinforced by...
The University's Mandate To Mandate Open Access (2008)
Open Access (OA) will not come until universities, the research-providers, make it part of their mandate not only to publish their research findings, as now, but also to see to it that the few extra...
No Need for Canadian PubMed Central: CIHR Should Mandate IR Deposit (2007)
What is needed for Canadian biomedical research output isn't yet another (this time Canadian) PubMed Central: What is needed is that all Canadian (and US and UK) biomedical research output (as well...
Distributed cognition. Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 14:2 (2006) (2006)
Harnad, Stevan, Dror, Itiel E.
Cognition is thinking, and thinking has been distributed for millions of years – for as long as our species has had language and tools to help us interact and collaborate and achieve far more than...
Berners-Lee, Tim, De Roure, Dave, Harnad, Stevan, Law, Derek, Murray-Rust, Peter, Oppenheim, Charles, ...
The UK Research Funding Councils (RCUK) have proposed that all RCUK fundees should self-archive on the web, free for all, their own final drafts of journal articles reporting their RCUK-funded...
The Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities; the idea of open access (what it is, to what it applies, its reason and the ways to implement it); the Southampton...
Evaluation of Algorithm Performance on Identifying OA (2005)
Antelman, Kristin, Bakkalbasi, Nisa, Goodman, David, Hajjem, Chawki, Harnad, Stevan
This is a signal-detection analysis of the accuracy of a robot in detecting open access (OA) articles (by checking by hand how many of the articles the robot tagged OA were really OA, and vice...
The Research-Impact Cycle (2003)
(Although I don't for a minute believe that researchers are in the trade for careerist or material reasons, I will pretend as if this were the case in order to speak a cost/benefit language that...
How and Why To Free All Refereed Research. From Access- and Impact-Barriers Online, Now (2001)
Harnad, Stevan, Carr, Les, Brody, Tim
Researchers publish their findings in order to make an impact on research, not in order to sell their words. Access-tolls are barriers to research impact. Authors can now free their refereed research...
Peer Review in the On-line Era (2001)
All refereed journals will soon be available online; most of them already are. This means that anyone will be able to access them from any networked desk-top. The literature will all be...