COGS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mental Representation, Retina, Occipital Lobe
25 Jan 2019
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Hard to define concepts that are abstract. 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 following terms to describe new views of concepts. Rumelhart and others (1980): a structure of the related object/idea showing the constituent typical properties or features. Does not represent the essence of a concept. Includes kind (categories) and part hierarchies and other associations. A structured system capable of organizing and perceiving new information. 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 rather than by the structure or parts. We think of related concepts which belong to the same frame.
