Models and cognition [[electronic resource] ] : prediction and explanation in everyday life and in science / / Jonathan A. Waskan

• Autore: Waskan Jonathan A
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (340 p.)
• Disciplina: 128/.2
• Soggetto topico: Philosophy of mind; Cognitive science
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: "A Bradford book."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-317) and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "In this book, Jonathan Waskan challenges cognitive science's dominant model of mental representation and proposes a novel, well-devised alternative. The traditional view in the cognitive sciences uses a linguistic (propositional) model of mental representation. This logic-based model of cognition informs and constrains both the classical tradition of artificial intelligence and modeling in the connectionist tradition. It falls short, however, when confronted by the frame problem - the lack of a principled way to determine which features of a representation must be updated when new information becomes available. Proposed alternatives, including the imagistic model, have not so far resolved this problem. Waskan proposes instead the Intrinsic Cognitive Models (ICM) hypothesis, which argues that representational states can be conceptualized as the cognitive equivalent of scale models."--Jacket.
• Titolo autorizzato: Models and cognition
• ISBN: 1-282-09742-3; 9786612097423; 0-262-28582-7; 1-4294-7775-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452051203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II