CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Cognitive Architecture, Explicit Memory, Supervised Learning
1 Dec 2018
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Across fields, it"s a representation of something that excludes unimportant detail and information. A scale model of a home made of cardboard. A categorization scheme for the students in a class. Typically, it"s a computer program that models some aspect of thought. For example, it might model how people do categorization, or how a mouse learns to navigate a maze. Model makes predictions that can then be compared to data. If the predictions match the data, it supports the theory underlying the model. A programming environment or set of tools for making cognitive models. Typically, it includes constraints on how cognition works in all people speed of learning, memory retrieval; (ignoring cultural. Operates at the level of discrete symbols. Operates using number representations, which in aggregate constitute symbols. Models cognition at the level of biology, but speak to cognitive issues. Our inability to consciously retrieve and reflect on procedural memories.
