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Since 2000, there has been a movement toward bringing the micro-level variables of ideas and agency back into the disciplines of political science. Under these various ideational shifts, the agent-based ideas at the micro-level are conceptualized as terms of cognition or as cognitive information processes in social or cognitive psychology that are to be used to make inferences of structural or macro-level explanations on changes of policy-making or institutional transformation. This trend emphasizes that analyses of ideational factors should be unpacked as independent variables which can be operationalized and verified to have causation. Therefore, this paper suggests that studies of ideational variables should follow three lines of operationalization: the clarification of levels of analysis, the concretization of causal mechanisms, and the verification of practical inferences synthesizes the practices and the limitations of this trend toward ideas. It argues the the ideational turn facilitates the exploration of the structure-agency dilemma with theoretical models, middle-range causal mechanisms, and practical verifications in political science. However, the valid inferences on various mechanisms at different levels need further investigations and evidence-based verifications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cognitive communication research with Chinese characteristics is both the theoretical innovation and practical exploration in the interdisciplinary fields of communication and cognitive science. In recent years, under the context of interdisciplinary research, cognitive communication research in China is no longer limited to the discussion of its disciplinary boundary and its legitimacy. According to the former literature, researchers have discussed the three main topics of cognitive communication: the knowledge system of cognitive communication, the framework of cognitive neurocommunication and the applied research of cognitive communication. However, the discipline construction of cognitive communication in China is still in the stage of exploration. Both how to form an independent and original cognitive communication knowledge system and how to put the theoretical vision in the local context and respond to the social problems need to be explained and to be closely integrated with Chinese characteristics in the cognitive communication research. In order to systematically illustrate the Chinese characteristics of cognitive communication research, this paper focuses on four basic questions: what to construct, why to construct, how to construct and what to do. Then, this paper constructs a four-dimensional framework which includes the value system, the dynamic system, the knowledge production system and the application system. This paper (1) discusses the theoretical construction with Chinese characteristics in the value system. (2) integrates the background of disciplinary development and the trend of technological development into the dynamic system of cognitive communication research. (3) focuses on the theoretical innovation based on practice in the knowledge production system. (4) then explores the implement of cognitive communication with Chinese characteristics in overall strategic needs of the country. This study suggests that, under the construction of philosophy and social sciences with Chinese characteristics, cognitive communication with Chinese characteristics needs to ascertain the value orientation, characteristic and research objective. Under the impetus of practice power, discipline development power and tool power, cognitive communication continues to have Chinese characteristics. Cognitive communication with Chinese characteristics needs to be completed in terms of establishing the guiding position of Marxism, integrating multi-theory and solving important problems, which can reflect Chinese characteristics in academic research, theoretical construction and problem-orientation. Finally, in the insight of cognitive pattern, exploration of cognitive mechanism and innovation of cognitive tools, the research result of cognitive communication can be used in practical applications. Compared to previous research, this paper has made extensions in the following aspects: Firstly, this paper has constructed the interactive and complex four-dimensional framework for the study of cognitive communication with Chinese characteristics, which suggests the essential requirements of Chinese characteristics in cognitive communication. At the same time, it explores the approach to the local study of cognitive communication, hoping to establish a subject status in constructing original theories, to keep up with local practice and respond to real problems. Secondly, this paper, closely related to the practice of socialist construction with Chinese characteristics, explores the possible practical aspects of cognitive communication, aiming at exploring and solving real problems. The four-dimensional framework helps to explicit the essence, the development motivation, the implementation approach and the application of the study of cognitive communication with Chinese characteristics, which helps to form the Chinese style of cognitive communication, to expand the Chinese research team of cognitive communication, and to infuse Chinese style into the international academic exchange of cognitive communication, which makes the future cognitive communication research move towards the construction direction of "Chinese characteristics" and finally, the cognitive communication discipline with Chinese characteristics will be constructed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Right now one of remarkable features of clashes between countries is frequent cognitive warfare. In order to control emotions of the public, US and Western countries use a lot of theories on cognitive dissonance and psychodynamics to develop information and publicity in grey zone when facing enemy countries. But related researches always rely on traditional frames of strategic communication to understand the new kind of warfare, neglecting the beginning of cognitive turn of strategic communication or the important effects of cognitive sciences on the core logic of traditional strategic communication. This paper uses paradigms of cognitive sciences, securitization, semiotics and narratives to analyze critical topic field of cognitive strategic communication and indicates the research propositions of public opinion and group communication in cyber space, which are divided into two strategies of cultivating KOL to lead good opinions and constructing commonwealth or fighting enemies in bias of emotions. The ultimate pursuit of cognitive strategic communication is general national security, which includes three approaches of breaking information lockout, carrying out strategic deception and defending non-material territories. In realities, cognitive strategic communication always focuses on practices of new public diplomacy that demonstrate in manipulating narratives and spreading strong symbols for reconstructing“brain frontier”of the public of rivals. This paper concludes that national narrative ability and symbol spreading ability should be promoted unceasingly, the basic constructions, theoretical schema, system mechanism of cognitive strategic communication must be improved in the future. Compared with related documents, this paper hopes to make innovations as followings: (1) start a new academic sphere by integrating paradigms of politics, communication studies, military science, national security science, psychology, narratives, semiotics and break the stereotype of detecting strategic communication or national security under one perspective; (2) put forward an important concept of cognitive strategic communication under the grand frame of national security, upgrade the traditional system of strategic communication and meet theoretical requirements of cognitive warfare in practice; (3) the raising of cognitive strategic communication is expected to take the lead of western academic research in the related fields and complete discourse transformation; (4) link the science of journalism and communication with national security for the first time and illustrate the importance and urgency of breaking information monopoly and defending non-material territories. This paper penetrates self-speech and industry regulation of information single discipline of science, marches on complex dimension of multi-disciplinary cross connection; Based on the connecting historic context and global background, this paper emphasizes the combination of world vision and Chinese text, Chinese expression, Chinese ideas, which is an important research on theories of international communication with Chinese characteristics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The prosperity of Chinese philosophy and social sciences necessitates knowledge independence and theoretical innovation, which in turn guides the mission and direction of academic maturity and development. Chinese cognitive communication research originated from the trend of our epoch of cognitive turn responding to the development needs of the breakthrough of the communication discipline. As a result, the cross-boundary dialogue and convergence of multiple knowledge were stimulated, benefiting its interdisciplinary characteristics. This discipline gradually completed the transformation of the "Chinese style" discipline and became a fresh experience of the construction of the New Liberal Arts Initiative (NLAI) after more than ten years of path exploration. However, Chinese cognitive communication research is still in a dilemma of interdisciplinary research which emphasizes the importance of facing the suspicion and pain of discipline legitimacy by forming self-awareness of a fully-fledged academic subject through articulating the position, establishing the independent scientific principle, clearing a self-consistent value of the academic and forming a deep consciousness of Chinese discipline construction. This paper systematically examined 979 articles sourced from CSSCI using the formalism approach. The goal is to inspect the disciplinary practice and characteristics of Chinese cognitive communication research, predict its transformation into a fully-fledged academic subject, and illuminate its way of promoting disciplinary consciousness. The results show that the "disciplinary exploration" of Chinese cognitive communication research was executed from the aspects of "positioning", "practice" and "organization". Nevertheless, this discipline is trapped in the path of dependence induced by inflexible means of interdisciplinary research and its outlook is overshadowed by the contradictory properties of disciplinary, which forces it to pursue innovative structural thinking, firmly anchored in a bedrock of shared values, while simultaneously embracing the dynamism inherent in distinctive creation in order to tackle these hurdles. So it’s imperative to undertake a meticulous examination of the field of this discipline involving scrutinizing the logical framework of knowledge, which is established through the development of a well-defined conceptual system, and making dedicated efforts toward advancing theoretical innovation. The impediments that hinder this emerging discipline may be overcome by confronting the challenges brought about by cutting-edge technology, engaging in inter-civilizational learning to assimilate cognitive knowledge from various cultures around the world, leveraging the enriching discourse resources of classical Chinese philosophy, and re-evaluating the humanistic implications of Chinese cognitive communication research, based on which it can reconstruct the domain of research via the consistent and coherent logical connotation of the methods and discourse. In this way, Chinese cognitive communication research will be transformed into a comprehensive insight into the live world and take the main responsibility of governance decisions and scientific prosperity. Compared with previous studies, this paper tries to integrate the academic frontier and Chinese context, combining the latest achievements of cognitive science and ancient Chinese cognitive wisdom. The thinking model was constructed on the basis of the systematic literature review, with the help of diversified knowledge paradigms to lead this discipline to the path of knowledge independence and broad domain. According to this idea, Chinese cognitive communication research will incorporate literature and function, promoting mutual learning and coexistence of civilizations, advancing human digital civilization, and Chinese modernization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are an important data source in microwave vision research; however, computer vision cannot interpret these images effectively based on optical perceptual principles. Therefore, microwave vision, which draws inspiration from human visual perception principles and combines computer vision techniques with electromagnetic physical principles, has become an important research direction in microwave remote sensing. Exploring the cognitive basis for microwave vision is crucial for improving the theoretical system of microwave vision. Therefore, as a preliminary attempt to enhance the theoretical understanding of microwave vision, this paper examines the effectiveness of optical perceptual principles for microwave vision. As a classical visual theory, Gestalt perceptual principles are commonly used for describing the perceptual principles of the human visual system for the external optical world and are a cognitive theoretical foundation of computer vision. In this context, this paper uses SAR images as the research object, focuses on the design process of cognitive psychology experiments, and preliminarily studies the effectiveness of Gestalt perceptual principles for SAR images, including the principles of perceptual grouping and perceptual invariance, exploring the cognitive basis of microwave vision. The experimental results indicate that the Gestalt perceptual principles cannot be directly applied to the algorithm design for SAR images, and the knowledge concepts and visual principles derived from the optical world using the human visual system do not perform well in SAR images. In the future, it will be necessary to summarize the corresponding visual cognitive principles based on the characteristics of microwave images, such as SAR images.