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Lake, Brenden M.; Lawrence, Neil D.; Tenenbaum, Joshua B. – Cognitive Science, 2018
Both scientists and children make important structural discoveries, yet their computational underpinnings are not well understood. Structure discovery has previously been formalized as probabilistic inference about the right structural form--where form could be a tree, ring, chain, grid, etc. (Kemp & Tenenbaum, 2008). Although this approach…
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Intuition, Bias, Computation
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Cooper, Richard P. – Cognitive Science, 2007
It has been suggested that the enterprise of developing mechanistic theories of the human cognitive architecture is flawed because the theories produced are not directly falsifiable. Newell attempted to sidestep this criticism by arguing for a Lakatosian model of scientific progress in which cognitive architectures should be understood as theories…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Processes, Models, Scientific Concepts
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Zacks, Jeffrey M. – Cognitive Science, 2004
In order to understand ongoing activity, observers segment it into meaningful temporal parts. Segmentation can be based on bottom-up processing of distinctive sensory characteristics, such as movement features. Segmentation may also be affected by top-down effects of knowledge structures, including information about actors' intentions. Three…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Motion, Intention, Experiments
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Larkey, Levi B.; Markman, Arthur B. – Cognitive Science, 2005
Similarity underlies fundamental cognitive capabilities such as memory, categorization, decision making, problem solving, and reasoning. Although recent approaches to similarity appreciate the structure of mental representations, they differ in the processes posited to operate over these representations. We present an experiment that…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Mapping, Models