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Chater, Nick; Brown, Gordon D. A. – Cognitive Science, 2008
The remarkable successes of the physical sciences have been built on highly general quantitative laws, which serve as the basis for understanding an enormous variety of specific physical systems. How far is it possible to construct universal principles in the cognitive sciences, in terms of which specific aspects of perception, memory, or decision…
Descriptors: Sciences, Scientific Principles, Models, Memory
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Smolensky, Paul – Cognitive Science, 2006
In this article, I survey the integrated connectionist/symbolic (ICS) cognitive architecture in which higher cognition must be formally characterized on two levels of description. At the microlevel, parallel distributed processing (PDP) characterizes mental processing; this PDP system has special organization in virtue of which it can be…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computation, Research Projects, Theories
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Lewis, Richard L.; Vasishth, Shravan – Cognitive Science, 2005
We present a detailed process theory of the moment-by-moment working-memory retrievals and associated control structure that subserve sentence comprehension. The theory is derived from the application of independently motivated principles of memory and cognitive skill to the specialized task of sentence parsing. The resulting theory construes…
Descriptors: Memory, Sentences, Models, Comprehension
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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