CGSC170 Lecture 5: CGSCLEC5

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Cognitive Science
• Course: CGSC170
• Professor: Larsen Darrell

Document Summary

Jerry fodor proposed an architecture of the mind in which mental operations are contained in different modules: innate, domain-specific (language vs vision, autonomous/functionally independent, triggered automatically by presence of appropriate information, informationally encapsulated. Information cannot be used for another module until completely done with another: how information is processed, 1. Information enters module with general encoding type: 2. Information is transcoded to module-specific type: 3. Module-internal functions operate over and transform information: 4. Information is transcoded back to general encoding type: 5. Q: how is information represented in the mind: a representation stands for something else (such as an object, thought, rule, etc, digital vs analog representations, digital symbols: discrete symbols/representations with set values, analog symbols: continuous representatives of information. Q: how might the meaning of a concept be represented in the mind: a definition, a list of (cid:374)ecessar(cid:455) features (cid:894)(cid:858)feature(cid:859) approach(cid:895, b(cid:455) o(cid:374)e or (cid:373)ore e(cid:454)a(cid:373)ples (cid:894)(cid:858)e(cid:454)e(cid:373)plar(cid:859) approach(cid:895) e(cid:454).