COGS 100 Lecture Notes - Information Processor, Latent Learning, Reinforcement Learning
28 Nov 2012
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Possibility of studying the responses of individual neurons. Mapping changing patterns of activation in different brain areas. Set problems that they are trying to solve and a set of phenomena that they are trying to model and explain. (part of the reasons why. The most fundamental driving assumption of cogs is that minds are information processors. Cogs flourished in the 60s and 70s. Marked by a series of powerful and influential studies of aspects of mental functioning. Later decades of the 20thc saw challenges to some of the basic assumptions of the. Founding fathers of cogs. (turn to the brain) crucial factor: development of new techniques for studying the brain. Late 70s cogs became an established part of intellectual landscape. (same time as an academic field crystallized around a basic set of problems, techniques and theoretical assumptions from many different disciplines and areas. Many had been around for a fairly long time. )
