Derek J. Smith, Consultant Cognitive Scientist

CEng (Information Systems), CITP, FHEA, MBCS, Dip Med Ed (Dundee), Cert Res Meth

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Research Associate, International Software Products, Toronto

Previously Senior Lecturer in Informatics and Cognitive Science at Cardiff Metropolitan University

 

COVID-19 FAST TRACKING

Here are the resources which were fast-tracked during the COVID-19 emergency, but which have not been routinely updated since March 2021 ...

COVID, the people and the places

INCLUDES A LOT OF VERY DETAILED HISTORY

COVID, the hard science

INCLUDES A LOT OF VERY HARD SCIENCE

COVID, Day by Day

 

 

APOLOGIES

A number of inward links still use an obsolete legacy URL structure...smithsrisca.demon.co.... Simply select the corresponding entry from the tables below or re-key without the demon bit. As of July 2018 many files have lost the automatic insertion of in-line graphics. These problems are being worked upon by re-issuing each file in pdf form. In the meantime specific links have been added.

AT A GLANCE

Between 1980 and 1991 I worked for the Cardiff data processing division of British Telecom, specialising in the design and operation of very large databases and management support systems. Between 1991 and 2010 I lectured in health informatics and cognitive science at Cardiff Metropolitan University, specialising in the cognitive neuropsychology required by Speech and Language Therapists. I am currently Chief Designer on the Konrad artificial consciousness project.

CONTACT ME AT smithsrisca@btinternet.com

PROJECT KONRAD

Konrad is a state-of-the-art simulation of biological cognition which combines my database design experience and in-depth understanding of cognition with International Software Products' CA IDMS production platform. By focusing on the semantic network nature of the mind's long-, medium-, and short-term memory systems the Konrad software offers clients and collaborators a test-bed, complete with detailed print-out, on which they can explore hypotheses as to mental function which cannot be tested in living subjects. Project Konrad is animated cognition taken to the extreme. It is designed around the best models available from philosophy, neuropsychology, and psycholinguistics, and runs at about natural speed. Its USP [= Unique Selling Proposition] is that it messages what it is thinking about in real-time, and then gives you a microscopically detailed hard copy at the end of each run telling you how it did what it did.

GO TO PROJECT KONRAD HOMEPAGE

PROJECT ANEURIN

Aneurin is a work-in-progress online encyclopaedia on the theme of humankind at war, inspired [when first published in 2014] by the rapidly approaching centenary of the Great War. Each essay takes an issue of philosophical interest [what is bravery, say, and can it be taught], and then seeks explanatory insight in the cognitive science literature. Time and time again the available theory implicates our species' primate inheritance as a self-indulgent and intolerant man-ape, capable, when properly primed, of unrestricted cruelty and destruction. The relationship between our animal emotions and our much-vaunted faculties of intellect is especially interesting, with the former prevailing over the latter far too often for us to sleep easily in our beds. Details aside, the individual essays, each in its own way, reflect upon a common central issue, namely that we really do need to understand why the War to End All Wars achieved nothing of the sort, indeed has been followed without break by a hundred years of accelerating human conflict. WW1, in short, is a lesson still waiting to be learned, and it would be a fitting tribute to the millions who suffered at its hands to use its centenary years for this very purpose.

Project Aneurin Sections

Part 1, History of Warfare, Prehistory to 730 C.E.

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Part 2, History of Warfare, 731 to 1272

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Part 3, History of Warfare, 1273 to 1602

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Part 4, History of Warfare, 1603 to 1661

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Part 5, History of Warfare, 1662 to 1763

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Part 6, History of Warfare, 1764 to 1815

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Part 7, History of Warfare, 1816 to 1869

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Part 8, History of Warfare, 1870 to 1894

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Part 9, History of Warfare, 1895 to August 1914

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Part 10, WW1, August to December 1914

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Part 10, WW1, 1915

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Part 10, WW1, 1916

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Part 10, WW1, 1917

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Part 10, WW1, 1918

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Part 11, Russian Civil War, 1919-ongoing

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Conspiracy Theory Glossary (JFK, etc.)

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STUDENT RESOURCES

In my 20 years as university lecturer I produced a large number of explanatory handouts and encyclopaedic resources. Most of these began as hard copy material in the 1990s, but were subsequently upgraded for electronic delivery under the Smithsrisca banner between 2000 and 2005. These are indexed below, along with some more recent conference PowerPoint presentations .....

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Consciousness Series

Short-Term Memory Subtypes in Computing and Artificial Intelligence: Part 1 - A Brief History of Computing Technology, to 1924

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Short-Term Memory Subtypes in Computing and Artificial Intelligence: Part 2 - A Brief History of Computing Technology, 1925 to 1942

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Short-Term Memory Subtypes in Computing and Artificial Intelligence: Part 3 - A Brief History of Computing Technology, 1943 to 1950

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Short-Term Memory Subtypes in Computing and Artificial Intelligence: Part 4 - A Brief History of Computing Technology, 1951 to 1958

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Short-Term Memory Subtypes in Computing and Artificial Intelligence: Part 5 - A Brief History of Computing Technology, 1959 to date

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Short-Term Memory Subtypes in Computing and Artificial Intelligence: Part 6 - Memory Subtypes in Computing

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Database Navigation and the CA IDMS Semantic Net

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A Computer Simulation of Meinong's (1902) Objektiv Stage of Object Perception [CONFERENCE POWERPOINT, Edinburgh, April 2009]

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A Demonstration of Philosopher-Friendly Reductionism in a Computational Model of Cognition [CONFERENCE POWERPOINT, Oxford, September 2009]

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The Forensic Ergonomics of Distraction Errors: A Computer Simulation [CONFERENCE POWERPOINT, Keele, April 2010]

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The Surprisingly Difficult Science of Beautiful Paintings [EXHIBITION POWERPOINT, Wrexham Science Festival, July 2012]

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Artificial Consciousness: A CA IDMSTM Database Solution to Autonomous Robotics [CONFERENCE POWERPOINT, CA World '13, Las Vegas, April 2013]

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The Cognitive Science of Aesthetic Interaction [CONFERENCE POWERPOINT, BCE EVA 2013, London, July 2013]

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The Surprisingly Difficult Science of Two plus Two [CONFERENCE POWERPOINT, BCME8, Nottingham, April 2014]

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Trench Gothic: The Computer Visualisation of a Disturbing Great War Artwork [CONFERENCE POWERPOINT, BCS EVA 2014, London, July 2014]

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Our Mental Philosophy Glossary

Here are the files making up my multi-file navigable data dictionary on the theme of self and consciousness .....

Mental Philosophy Glossary [Introduction and Index]

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Mental Philosophy Glossary [A/B]

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Mental Philosophy Glossary [Case Histories]

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Mental Philosophy Glossary [Consciousness]

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Mental Philosophy Glossary [C, remaining entries]

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Mental Philosophy Glossary [D]

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Mental Philosophy Glossary [E/F]

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Mental Philosophy Glossary [G/H/I]

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Mental Philosophy Glossary [J/K/L]

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Mental Philosophy Glossary [M/N/O]

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Mental Philosophy Glossary [Persona.....]

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Mental Philosophy Glossary [P/Q/R]

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Mental Philosophy Glossary [S]

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Mental Philosophy Glossary [T to Z]

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Brain and Behaviour Series

Cross-Sectional Anatomy of the Cerebrum

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Microanatomy of the Cerebral Cortex

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Kleist (1934)

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Communication and the Naked Ape

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The Motor Hierarchy

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Motor Programming

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Biological Cybernetics

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Hebbian Theory

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The Limbic System, Motivation, and Drive

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The Pyramidal and Extra-Pyramidal Motor Systems

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From Frontal Lobe Syndrome to Dysexecutive Syndrome

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Robotics, Cybernetics, and the Like

An Introduction to Connectionism

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Norris' (1991) "Constraints on Connectionism"

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A Brief History of Automata

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Basics of Cybernetics

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The Eckert-von Neumann Machine

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Introduction to Systems Theory

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Shannonian Communication Theory and Biological Communication

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An Introduction to Data Modelling for Semantic Network Designers

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On database keys, with an application to the Praxisproblem. [CONFERENCE POWERPOINT, Orlando, FL, July 2005]

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The problem of context in sentence production - Surely a case to re-convene the Data Base Task Group? [CONFERENCE POWERPOINT, Austin, TX, July 2005]

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How ideas evolve into speech - A computer animation. [CONFERENCE POWERPOINT, Oxford, September 2005]

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Gunnery Control Computing at the Battle of Jutland, 1916 [LECTURE POWERPOINT, Swansea, April 2016]

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Historical Cognitive Models Series (In Timeline Sequence)

I am a keen cognitive modeller, and included practical modeling skills at a number of points in my psychology curriculum. My own six-module modular diagram of cognition (Smith, 1993b; Smith and Stringer, 1997; Smith, 1999c; Smith, 2000b; Smith, 2010c) attempts (a) to locate, and (b) to show the relationship between, the major types of long-, medium-, and short term memory in a three-level biological control hierarchy. The following items trace how the story starts .....

Descartes (1662) - The Philosopher's View

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Bell-Magendie (1811) - The Anatomist's View

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Lordat (1834) - The Army Surgeon's View

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Wernicke (1874) - The Aphasiologist's View

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Kussmaul (1878) - Early "Cog Neuro" View

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Charcot's (1883) "Bell" - Early "Cog Neuro" View

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Lichtheim's (1885) "House"

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Grashey (1885)

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James (1890)

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Freud (1891)

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Wundt (1902)

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Freud (1896) - The Psychoanalyst's View

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Freud (1900) - The Psychoanalyst's View

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Control Hierarchy Models Series (In Timeline Sequence)

.....and the following items bring us fully up to date .....

Freud (1923) - The Psychoanalyst's View

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Freud (1933) - The Psychoanalyst's View

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Craik (1945) - The Pioneer Ergonomist's View

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Wepman et al (1960) - The Clinician's View

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Frank (1963) - The Information Scientist's View

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Reader (1969) - Early Roboticist's View

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Dennett (1978) - The Philosopher's View

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Rasmussen (1983) - The Forensic Ergonomist's View

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Allport (1985) - The Distributed Semantics View

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Norman (1990) - The State-of-the-Art View

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Arkin (1990) - State-of-the-Art Roboticist's View

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Smith (1993) - The System Analyst's View

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Frith, Rees, and Friston's (1998) - "Forward Model" [LECTURE POWERPOINT]

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Smith (2007-2011) - Project Konrad's View [which incorporates all the above]

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Theoretical Cognitive Science

Aesthetics Timeline

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Education Theory Timeline

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Experiential Learning: The Knowledge Structures and the Cognitive Processes

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How to Draw Cognitive Diagrams (with tutorial exercises)

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Transcoding Models - Introduction and Overview

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Norman and Bobrow's (1975) Resource Allocation Theory

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Minsky's (1977) Frame-System Theory

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Thorndike's (1977) Story Memory Theory

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Speech Errors, Speech Production Models, and Speech Pathology

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Dyslexia and the Cognitive Science of Reading and Writing

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Neuropsychology/Aphasiology Timeline

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Neuropsychology/Aphasiology Glossary

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Memory Glossary

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Psycholinguistics Glossary

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Rational Argument Glossary

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Research Methods Glossary

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An Introduction to Creativity

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The Bilingual Brain (Why Machines Can't Translate for Toffee) [EXHIBITION POWERPOINT Wrexham Science Festival, 10th March 2008]

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The Psychology of Numeracy

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Mathematics in the Mind [EXHIBITION POWERPOINT Wrexham Science Festival, 30th March 2009]

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The Molyneux Question

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Modern Psycholinguistic Models Series (In Timeline Sequence)

Morton (1964)

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Gough (1972)

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Marshall and Newcombe (1973)

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Morton (1979)

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Morton (1981)

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Ellis (1982)

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McCarthy and Warrington (1984)

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McCarthy and Warrington (1985)

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Roeltgen and Heilman (1985)

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Crosson (1985)

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Ellis and Young (1988)

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Garrett (1990)

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Kay, Lesser, and Coltheart (1992)

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Coltheart, Curtis, Atkins, and Haller (1993)

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Perception, Attention, and Memory Models (In Timeline Sequence)

I lectured in cognitive neuropsychology between 1991 and 2010, and covered all aspects of memory theory, including the amnesias and the underlying biochemistry. From a theoretical standpoint, I favour the Lashley-Pribram distributed memory approach (having been impressed with Karl Pribram's holographic hypothesis ever since it first appeared back in the 1960s). I also closely follow research into "second messenger" neurotransmission, because I hold the mechanisms of medium-term neural sensitisation to be fundamental to the emergence of all complex cognitive faculties, including abstraction, association, self-awareness, and consciousness.

Cherry (1953)

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Broadbent (1958)

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Sperling (1960)

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Sperling (1963)

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Sperling (1967)

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Pribram's Holonomic Theory of Memory (1969)

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Atkinson and Shiffrin (1971)

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Baddeley (2000)

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Human Error Series

Basic Laws of Life and Complex Systems

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IT Project Management Disasters

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Systems Thinking: The Knowledge Structures and the Cognitive Processes

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Mode Error in System Control

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Situational Awareness in Effective Command and Control

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Military Bungling (including the battles of New Orleans and Isandhlwana Hill, the Charge of the Light Brigade, Custer's Last Stand, and the tragic story of USS Vincennes vs Iran Air Flight 655, 1988)

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Transportation Disasters - Aerospace (including the Staines disaster, 1972, and the Kegworth disaster, 1989)

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Transportation Disasters - Maritime (including the Titanic and Exxon Valdez disasters)

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Transportation Disasters - Rail

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The human operator revisited: Autonomous machines as equals (or not quite) in the control room of the future [CONFERENCE POWERPOINT, Paris, October 2010]

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PREVIOUSLY

Professional Activities

For nearly 30 years I have maintained my professionalism as a computer person by active involvement with the South Wales Branch of the British Computer Society. I served on the branch committee from 1992 to 2018, and was Branch Chairman 1996-1998. I also served 1998-2006 as psychology advisor to the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. I hold the Certificate in Training Practice from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a postgraduate diploma in medical education from the Centre for Medical Education, University of Dundee.

My Animated Cognitive Models Projects

Many of the PowerPoints listed above use animated diagrams, but that facility has only been reliably available since 2005. For six years before that I used commercial cartooning software to produce a number of short cameo animations of cognitive models. In 2002, for example, I animated an engineer's analysis of the principles of mental data transmission and presented this on 9th April 2002 as a poster-plus-CD-ROM at the "Tucson V - Towards a Science of Consciousness" conference. The project before that was to produce a computer animation of the rapid changes in system state which take place during a short act of human facial recognition. This animation was presented on 30th June 2000 as a poster-in-motion at the ASSC4 Conference in Brussels, Belgium. The project before that was an animation of the critical role played by information feedback during the process of human speech production. This was presented on 10th April 2000 as a poster-in-motion at the "Tucson 2000 - Towards a Science of Consciousness" conference. And the project before that (Oct-Nov 1999) was an animation of Alan Baddeley's Working Memory Model of Memory. The development work was carried out on resources kindly provided by British Telecom, Cardiff, and the resulting animation "went live" during a cognitive science lecture on 18th November 1999.  [Sadly not all these early animations still work due to changes in the Windows CODEC drivers in the intervening years, and they have largely been replaced by PowerPoint re-writes.]

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

CONFERENCES AND JOURNAL ARTICLES

Smith, D.J. (1990). The entity, the attribute, and the relationship. Paper presented September 1990 to the British Psychological Society Cognitive Section Annual Conference, Leicester. [This was my first attempt to bring industrial data modelling techniques to bear on the problems of cognitive theory.]

Smith, D.J. (1991). Suppositions of belonging: The computational principles of meaning. Paper presented September 1991 to the British Psychological Society Cognitive Section Annual Conference, Oxford.

Smith, D.J. (1992). The psychology of effective college governance: Part 1 - the management skills. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 16:87-99.

Smith, D.J. (1993a). FETC and the latecomer to teaching. Journal of the National Association for Staff Development, 28:17-22.

Smith, D.J. (1993b). The psychology of effective college governance: Part 2 - the cognitive skills. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 17:77-85.

Smith, D.J. (1995a). Professional Development through Post-Graduate Research Supervision. Journal of the National Staff Development Agency, 32:24-33.

Smith, D.J. (1996a). Effective teaching: A quick measure. [Unpublished research report, submitted as postgraduate coursework to University of Dundee.] [Requests for reprints to the author.]

Smith, D.J. (1997a). The magical name Miller, plus or minus the umlaut. In Harris, D. (Ed.), Proceedings of the First International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics (Volume 2). Aldershot: Ashgate. [ISBN: 0291398472] [Being the transcript of a paper presented 24th October 1996 to the First International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics, Stratford-upon-Avon.]

Smith, D.J. (1997b). The IDMS set currency and biological memory. Poster presented 10th March 1997 at the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Robotics, Biology, and Psychology, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh.

ASIDE: I was particularly fortunate during my years with British Telecom to work on the design, development, and support of a very large CODASYL database system. The platform used was ICL's IDMS(X), a UK-licensed variant of Computer Associates' CA-IDMS system. This type of database organises its contents into an intricate network, rather than into the tabular columns and rows used by more simplistic systems, and in order to manage the resulting data networks the system software relies upon a number of clever internal tricks. When I took up cognitive science in 1991, I decided to look for the biological equivalents of these mechanisms (after all, the mind had so often been described as a biological database, that it seemed reasonable to enquire after its database internals). I eventually concluded that the most compelling similarity was between the IDMS concept of "database currency" and the biological mechanisms of second messenger neurotransmission. Both allow their respective systems to maintain a particular mental theme across a timespan larger than the span of the immediate here and now, both do this by holding material momentarily somewhere between short term memory and long term memory, both combine storage and retrieval functions, and - above all - both exist to help "bind" widely scattered memory fragments into logical wholes. What CODASYL databases give us, therefore, is a tangible paradigm for biological consciousness in general, and a working example of a system architecture which has successfully overcome the "binding problem" in particular. For the precise argument and parallel worked examples see Smith (1997a) and Smith (1997e), for the paradigm's utility in addressing the explanatory gap see Smith (1998c), for the front runners in mapping the human knowledge network see Doug Lenat's CYC Project, and for an introduction to the binding problem consult Valerie Gray Hardcastle's Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness website.

Smith, D.J. (1997c). Chunking and cognitive efficiency: Some lessons from the history of military signalling. Paper presented 27th March 1997 to the 11th Annual Conference of the History and Philosophy of Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society, York.

Smith, D.J. (1997d). Book Review: "How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now", by William H. Calvin, 1996. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 4:381-382.

Smith, D.J. (1998a). Feedback in speech production. Invited paper presented 10th April 1998 at the Centre for Neuroscience, University of Florida Health Science Centre, Gainesville, FL.

Smith, D.J. (1998b). Book Review: "Anthropology at the Edge", by J. Ian Prattis, 1996. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 5:255.

Smith, D.J. (1998c). Commentary on "Cortical Activity and the Explanatory Gap" by J.G. Taylor. Consciousness and Cognition, 7:214-215.

Smith D.J. (1999a). Freudian structures in the computational mind: Some lessons from the study of ritual sacrifice. Cardiff: UWIC. Paper presented 15th April 1999 to the 13th Annual Conference of the History and Philosophy of Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society, York.

Smith, D.J. (1999b). Borderline Dyslexia in Higher Education. [Unpublished research report, submitted as postgraduate coursework to University of Dundee.] [Requests for reprints to the author.]

Smith, D.J. (2000a). A slow-motion video analysis of information feedback in a computer-animated psycholinguistic model. Computer-animated poster presented 10th April 2000 at the Tucson 2000 - Towards a Science of Consciousness conference, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

Smith, D.J. (2000b). A slow-motion video analysis of the arrival and circulation of initially unbinded input within consciousness. Computer-animated poster presented 30th June 2000 at the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Free University, Brussels, Belgium.

Smith, D.J. (2000c). Book Review: "Artificial Life: An Overview", by Christopher G. Langton (Ed.), 1995. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 7(6):89-91.

Smith, D.J. (2002). Intramodular neurotransmission and the Wichita Lineman. Poster presented 9th April 2002 at the Tucson 2002 - Towards a Science of Consciousness conference, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

Smith, D.J. (2002). Book Review: "Painting, Psychoanalysis, and Spirituality", by Stephen J. Newton, 2001. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 9(3):83-87.

Smith, D.J. (2005). On database keys, with an application to the Praxisproblem. In Callaos, N., Lesso, W., and Palesi, M. (Eds.), The 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics, July 10-13, 2005 - Orlando, Florida, USA (Volume IV). Orlando, FL: International Institute of Informatics and Systemics.

Smith, D.J. (2005). The problem of context in sentence production - Surely a case to re-convene the Data Base Task Group? In Chu, H.-W., Savoie, M.J., Sanchez, B., and Hong, S.-M. (Eds.), The 3rd International Conference on Computing, Communications, and Control Technologies, July 24-27, 2005 - Austin, Texas, USA (Volume III). Orlando, FL: International Institute of Informatics and Systemics.

Smith, D.J. (2005). How ideas evolve into speech - A computer animation. Paper presented at the 9th Conference of the Consciousness and Experiential Psychology Section of the British Psychology Society, St. Anne's College, Oxford, 16th-18th September 2005.

Smith, D.J. (2009a). A computer simulation of Meinong's (1902) Objektiv stage of object perception. Paper presented 8th April 2009 to the Annual Conference of the History and Philosophy of Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society, University of Edinburgh.

Smith, D.J. (2009b). A computer simulation of Meinong's (1902) Objektiv stage of object perception. History and Philosophy of Psychology, 11(1): 37-43.

Smith, D.J. (2009c). A demonstration of philosopher-friendly reductionism in a computational model of cognition. Paper presented 11th September 2009 to the 12th Annual Conference of the Consciousness and Experiential Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society, St. Anne's College, Oxford.

Smith, D.J. (2010a). The forensic ergonomics of distraction errors: A computer simulation. Paper presented 14th April 2010 to the Annual Conference of the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors, University of Keele.

Smith, D.J. (2010b). The human operator revisited: Autonomous machines as equals (or not quite) in the control room of the future. Paper presented 25th October 2010 to the International Control Room Design Conference, Eurosites République, Paris.

Smith, D.J. (2010c). The human operator revisited: Autonomous machines as equals (or not quite) in the control room of the future. In Wood, J. (Ed.),  Conference Proceedings, ICOCO 2010. Leicester: Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors.

Smith, D.J. (2012a). The surprisingly difficult science of beautiful paintings. Paper presented 26th July 2012 at the Wrexham Science Festival.

Smith, D.J. (2012b). Embodied versus disembodied representation in an act of artificial cognition. Guest Lecture online - Shanghai Lectures 2012.

Smith, D.J. (2013). Artificial Consciousness: A CA IDMSTM database solution to autonomous robotics. Paper presented 21st-24th April 2013 at the CA World '13 conference, Las Vegas, NV. [Play Powerpoint]

Smith, D.J. (2014a). The surprisingly difficult science of two plus two. Demonstration-workshop presented 16th April 2014 at the British Congress of Mathematics Education BCME8 Conference, University of Nottingham.

Smith, D.J. (2014b). Trench Gothic: The computer visualisation of a disturbing Great War artwork. Paper presented 9th July 2014 at the Electronic Visualisation and the Arts EVA2014 conference, BCS HQ, London.

Smith, D.J. (2016). The remarkably difficult psychology of creative visualisation. Demonstration-workshop presented 14th July 2016 at the Electronic Visualisation and the Arts EVA2016 conference, BCS HQ, London.

Smith, D.J. (2018 - IN PRESS). On cognitive primitives and trick cinematography. Demonstration presented 12th July 2018 at the Electronic Visualisation and the Arts EVA2018 conference, BCS HQ, London and supported by a short paper in the conference proceedings.

TEACHING MATERIAL ISSUED UNDER ISBN ....

It is doubtful whether UWIC [now Cardiff Metropolitan University] retain any copies of these items so e-mail the author for alternative arrangements.

Smith, D.J. (1995b). Systems Engineering for Healthcare Professionals. Cardiff: UWIC. [ISBN: 1900666022 - out of print]

Smith, D.J. (1996b). Memory, Amnesia, and Modern Cognitive Theory. Cardiff: UWIC. [ISBN: 1900666006]

Smith, D.J. (1996c). Brain and Communication. Cardiff: UWIC. [ISBN: 1900666014]

Smith, D.J. (1997e). The IDMS Set Currency and Biological Memory. Cardiff: UWIC. [ISBN: 1900666057] [Workbook to support poster presented 10th March 1997 at the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Robotics, Biology, and Psychology, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh.]

Smith, D.J. (1997f). Chunking and Cognitive Efficiency: Some Lessons from the History of Military Signalling. Cardiff: UWIC. [ISBN: 1900666065] [Transcript of paper presented 27th March 1997 to the 11th Annual Conference of the History and Philosophy of Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society, York.]

Smith, D.J. (1997g). Human Information Processing. Cardiff: UWIC. [ISBN: 1900666081]

Smith, D.J. (1997h). Neuroanatomy for Students of Communication. Cardiff: UWIC. [ISBN: 190066609X - out of print]

Smith, D.J. and Stringer, C.B. (1997). Functional Periodicity in Biological Information Processing Architectures. Cardiff: UWIC. [ISBN: 1900666073]

Smith, D.J. (1998d). Applied Cognitive Psychology. Cardiff: UWIC. [ISBN: 1900666103]

Smith D.J. (1999c). Freudian Structures in the Computational Mind: Some Lessons from the Study of Ritual Sacrifice. Cardiff: UWIC. [ISBN: 1900666111] [Transcript of paper presented 15th April 1999 to the 13th Annual Conference of the History and Philosophy of Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society, York.]