Natural Systems Of Mind Vol 3 No 1

• A new mathematical model of spots is described for the spatial representation of mental imagery and modeling imaginative thinking.
• The spots can represent multidimensional and multilevel nature of the human imaginative sphere.
• Mathematical apparatus of L4 logical numbers, L4 vectors and L4 matrices allow to process information in imagery form.
• A new paradigm for the development of strong AI is proposed, based on the representation of information in imagery form and the modeling of nonmonotonic reasoning.

Admixture-regression analysis is a powerful tool that can be used to test the colorism hypothesis.

• We test the colorism hypothesis that academic outcome differences in the USA are due to phenotypic-based discrimination.
• The results generally do not support the colorism hypothesis and are more congruent with the hypothesis of inherited disadvantage according to which disadvantages are being intergenerationally transmitted.

• Dogmatic environment contributes to the formation of dependent and passive personality.
• Creative environment leads to the formation of free and active personality.
• Serene environment leads to the formation of free, however, passive personality.
• Career environment contributes to the formation of active, but dependent personality.

• Aim is to study subjects’ ability to evaluate emotional valence of chords based on their tonal and amplitude characteristics.
• Stimuli consist of generated and played by piano major and minor triad chords.
• The total of 103 amateurs/non musicians and professional musicians participated.
• Set of subjective scales was used for the evaluation of stimuli.
• Amplitude decay is crucial for the perception of emotional valence of chords in non-musicians.
• Professional musicians are able to perceive chords emotional valence without amplitude decay.
• Amplitude decay enhances perception of chords emotional valence in professionals.

• A conceptual model of rigidity is presented, which reveals the phenomenology, mechanisms, and patterns of its development.
• The need to distinguish between Convergent Rigidity and Divergent Rigidity is substantiated
• Rigidity is considered as a bipolar construct in the “rigidity-flexibility” continuum with splitting of subfields, which completely changes the view of rigidity as a purely negative phenomenon.
• It is shown that the structural components of rigidity are significant predictors of an individual’s psychological well-being.

• The criteria for the productivity of coping behavior are:

1. flexibility and variability of coping,
2. congruence of resources and requirements of the situation,
3. the orientational basis of coping,
4. the transfer of successful models of coping behavior to a new situation,
5. selectivity of coping,
6. optimal rate of coping

• Functions of the biological level of the Stress-Coping System are:

1. balance of the interaction of various body systems,
2. plasticity,
3. maintenance of rhythm,
4. accumulation of experience (immunological memory of stressor),
5. reappraisal of experience,
6. emotional regulation.