K. E. Schmidt

Kevin Schmidt, Othalia Larue, Ray Kulhanek et al.

We describe the current state of world-class memory competitions, including the methods used to prepare for and compete in memory competitions, based on the subjective report of World Memory Championship Grandmaster and co-author Nelson Dellis. We then explore the reported experiences through the lens of the Simulated, Situated, and Structurally coherent Qualia (S3Q) theory of consciousness, in order to propose a set of experiments to help further understand the boundaries of expert memory performance.

Robert E. Patterson, Regina Buccello-Stout, Mary E. Frame et al.

One of the most vital cognitive skills to possess is the ability to make sense of objects, events, and situations in the world. In the current paper, we offer an approach for creating artificially intelligent agents with the capacity for sensemaking in novel environments. Objectives: to present several key ideas: (1) a novel unified conceptual framework for sensemaking (which includes the existence of sign relations embedded within and across frames); (2) interaction among various content-addressable, distributed-knowledge structures via shared attributes (whose net response would represent a synthesized object, event, or situation serving as a sign for sensemaking in a novel environment). Findings: we suggest that attributes across memories can be shared and recombined in novel ways to create synthesized signs, which can denote certain outcomes in novel environments (i.e., sensemaking).

J. P. J. Chen, K. E. Schmidt, J. C. H. Spence et al.

We develop an algorithm capable of imaging a three-dimensional object given a collection of two-dimensional images of that object that are significantly influenced by the curvature of the Ewald sphere. These two-dimensional images cannot be approximated as projections of the object. Such an algorithm is useful in cryo-electron microscopy where larger samples, higher resolution, or lower energy electron beams are desired, all of which contribute to the significance of Ewald curvature.