ACCT 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Spreading Activation, Backpropagation, Hebbian Theory

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Accounting (ACCT)
• Course: ACCT 002
• Professor: Chaojibai

Document Summary

Cognitive science is the scientific study of the human mind, a highly interdisciplinary field, combining ideas and methods from psychology, computer science, linguistics, philosophy, and neuroscience. Broad goal: characterise the nature of human knowledge its forms and content and how that knowledge is used, processed, and acquired. Develop a theoretical framework by forming & testing computational models intended to be analogous to mental operations. Designing, building & experimenting with computational models is the central method of ai, the branch of computer science that is concerned with intelligent systems. Ideally, cognitive science, computational models & psychological experimentation go hand in hand, but unfortunately much happens in relative isolation. People have algorithmic processes (= mechanical procedures) that operate on those representations (neuronal firing as inspiration) The process applied to the representations produces the behaviour. Core of cognitive science: computational-representational understanding of mind (crum) Thinking is the result of mental representations and computational processes that operate on those.