COGS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Cognitive Science, Mental Representation, Basal Ganglia
30 Oct 2017
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Lock and hume - concepts are learned through sensory experience. Recent cognitive scientist - concepts are learned from experience and from other concepts. Concept = mental representation of a class of objects or events. Concept of car is not just a verbal description, but includes visual, auditory and other kinds of representations. Researchers introduced the followed terms to describe new views of concepts. Cognitively it is useful to have a package of information that can be applied as a whole. Minsky (1975) argued that thinking should be understood as a frame of whole. Minsky (1975) argued that thinking should be understood as a frame of whole rather than by the structure or parts. We think of related concepts which belong to the same frame. Halloween party - related concepts: costumes, fear, ghost, witch. Example: high school camp night, any special event. Schank and abelson (1977) explained scripts as concepts that show psychological computational collaboration.
