Modelling high-level cognitive processes

Modelling high-level cognitive processes / Richard P. Cooper ; with contributions from Peter Yule, John Fox, and David W. Glasspool.

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Cooper, Richard P.
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Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
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Physical Description:xiv, 415 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: I Background
  • 1 Modelling Cognition
  • What is Cognitive Modelling?
  • A Sample Model
  • What Makes a Good Model?
  • The Rise of Cognitive Modelling
  • Modelling and Simulation
  • The Role of Cognitive Modelling
  • Further Benefits of Cognitive Modelling
  • Some Objections to Cognitive Modelling
  • Approaches to Cognitive Modelling
  • Strategies for the Use of Simulation
  • Closing Remarks
  • Further Reading
  • 2 An Introduction to COGENT
  • COGENT: Principal Features
  • An Illustrative Task: Free Recall
  • Getting Started
  • Specifying Basic Experimenter Functions
  • The Modal Model in COGENT
  • Representation and Variable Binding
  • Augmenting the Experiment Environment
  • Extending the Modal Model
  • Further Reading
  • II Modelling in Specific Domains
  • Overview
  • 3 Arithmetic: A Cognitive Skill
  • Cognitive Skills
  • Multicolumn Addition
  • Multicolumn Subtraction
  • General Discussion
  • Further Reading
  • Appendix: Rules for Execute Action
  • 4 Problem Solving
  • The Psychology of Problem Solving
  • The Missionaries and Cannibals Problem
  • The Tower of Hanoi
  • Toward a General Problem Solver
  • Further Reading
  • 5 Deductive Reasoning
  • Introduction
  • Basic Effects in Human Deductive Reasoning
  • Syllogistic Reasoning with Mental Models
  • Building a Mental Model
  • Revising a Mental Model
  • Project: Reasoning as Problem Solving
  • Syllogistic Reasoning with Euler Circles
  • General Discussion
  • Further Reading
  • 6 Decision Making
  • The Psychology of Decision Making
  • Medical Diagnosis
  • Incorporating Cue Selection
  • Medical Diagnosis by Hypothesis Testing
  • Taking Stock
  • Further Reading
  • 7 Sentence Processing
  • Background
  • A First Model
  • Towards Incremental Interpretation
  • Serial Parsing
  • Alternative Approaches to Sentence Processing
  • Further Reading
  • 8 Executive Processes
  • The Domain of Executive Processes
  • Basic Psychological Findings
  • A Framework
  • Modelling the Supervisory Attentional System
  • Monitoring and the Six Element Test
  • Alternative Views of Executive Processes
  • Summary
  • Further Reading
  • III Reflections
  • 9 Reflections
  • An Assessment of Progress
  • Emergent Issues
  • Methodologies for Modelling
  • Issues for COGENT
  • An Agenda
  • Closing Remarks.

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