COG SCI 1 Lecture 1: Lecture 1 - January 19, 2017
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The scientific interdisciplinary study of the mind. Six blind men stumble upon an elephant. Thinking can best be understood in terms of representational structures in the mind and computational procedures that operate on those structures. Hypothesis: thinking is performed by computations operating on representations. According to crum, we (our minds) think in . Concepts allow us to recognize members of a category. Can specify virtually all of the possible relationships between concepts (hence more representational power than concepts) Example: if it is raining, then i will bring my umbrella . Take cognitive theory and simulate it in computer systems. 2) remembering a similar source problem for which a solution is already known. 3) the source and target are compared and mapped. 4) the source problem is adapted to produce a solution to the target problem. Visual images complement verbal representations, but don"t replace them. Brain activity when imagining the action is same as when doing the action.
