| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 415 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Modelling Cognition -- What is Cognitive Modelling? -- A Sample Model -- What Makes a Good Model? -- The Rise of Cognitive Modelling -- Modelling and Simulation -- The Role of Cognitive Modelling -- Further Benefits of Cognitive Modelling -- Some Objections to Cognitive Modelling -- Approaches to Cognitive Modelling -- Strategies for the Use of Simulation -- An Introduction to COGENT -- COGENT: Principal Features -- An Illustrative Task: Free Recall -- Specifying Basic Experimenter Functions -- The Modal Model in COGENT -- Representation and Variable Binding -- Augmenting the Experiment Environment -- Extending the Modal Model -- Modelling in Specific Domains -- Arithmetic: A Cognitive Skill -- Cognitive Skills -- Multicolumn Addition -- Multicolumn Subtraction -- Appendix: Rules for Execute Action -- Problem Solving -- The Psychology of Problem Solving -- The Missionaries and Cannibals Problem -- The Tower of Hanoi -- Toward a General Problem Solver -- Deductive Reasoning -- Basic Effects in Human Deductive Reasoning -- Syllogistic Reasoning with Mental Models -- Building a Mental Model -- Revising a Mental Model -- Project: Reasoning as Problem Solving -- Syllogistic Reasoning with Euler Circles -- Decision Making -- The Psychology of Decision Making -- Medical Diagnosis -- Incorporating Cue Selection -- Medical Diagnosis by Hypothesis Testing -- Taking Stock -- Sentence Processing -- A First Model -- Towards Incremental Interpretation -- Serial Parsing -- Alternative Approaches to Sentence Processing |
| Summary |
This book is a practical guide to building computational models of high-level cognitive processes and systems. High-level processes are those central cognitive processes involved in thinking, reasoning, planning, and so on |
| Notes |
Print version originally published: Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2002 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cognition -- Computer simulation
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Cognition -- Mathematical models
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MEDICAL -- Neuroscience.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Neuropsychology.
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Cognition -- Computer simulation
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Cognition -- Mathematical models
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135646820 |
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1135646821 |
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