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Computation and Cognition

Author : Zenon W. Pylyshyn
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 026266058X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (626 download)

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Book Synopsis Computation and Cognition by : Zenon W. Pylyshyn

Download or read book Computation and Cognition written by Zenon W. Pylyshyn and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1986-02-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question, "What is Cognitive Science?" is often asked but seldom answered to anyone's satisfaction. Until now, most of the answers have come from the new breed of philosophers of mind. This book, however, is written by a distinguished psychologist and computer scientist who is well-known for his work on the conceptual foundations of cognitive science, and especially for his research on mental imagery, representation, and perception. In Computation and Cognition, Pylyshyn argues that computation must not be viewed as just a convenient metaphor for mental activity, but as a literal empirical hypothesis. Such a view must face a number of serious challenges. For example, it must address the question of "strong equivalents" of processes, and must empirically distinguish between phenomena which reveal what knowledge the organism has, phenomena which reveal properties of the biologically determined "functional architecture" of the mind. The principles and ideas Pylyshyn develops are applied to a number of contentious areas of cognitive science, including theories of vision and mental imagery. In illuminating such timely theoretical problems, he draws on insights from psychology, theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence, and psychology of mind. A Bradford Book

Computational Explorations in Cognitive Neuroscience

Author : Randall C. O'Reilly
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262650540
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (55 download)

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Book Synopsis Computational Explorations in Cognitive Neuroscience by : Randall C. O'Reilly

Download or read book Computational Explorations in Cognitive Neuroscience written by Randall C. O'Reilly and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000-08-28 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text, based on a course taught by Randall O'Reilly and Yuko Munakata over the past several years, provides an in-depth introduction to the main ideas in the computational cognitive neuroscience. The goal of computational cognitive neuroscience is to understand how the brain embodies the mind by using biologically based computational models comprising networks of neuronlike units. This text, based on a course taught by Randall O'Reilly and Yuko Munakata over the past several years, provides an in-depth introduction to the main ideas in the field. The neural units in the simulations use equations based directly on the ion channels that govern the behavior of real neurons, and the neural networks incorporate anatomical and physiological properties of the neocortex. Thus the text provides the student with knowledge of the basic biology of the brain as well as the computational skills needed to simulate large-scale cognitive phenomena. The text consists of two parts. The first part covers basic neural computation mechanisms: individual neurons, neural networks, and learning mechanisms. The second part covers large-scale brain area organization and cognitive phenomena: perception and attention, memory, language, and higher-level cognition. The second part is relatively self-contained and can be used separately for mechanistically oriented cognitive neuroscience courses. Integrated throughout the text are more than forty different simulation models, many of them full-scale research-grade models, with friendly interfaces and accompanying exercises. The simulation software (PDP++, available for all major platforms) and simulations can be downloaded free of charge from the Web. Exercise solutions are available, and the text includes full information on the software.

Computational Cognitive Neuroscience

Author : Yuko Munakata
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (335 download)

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Book Synopsis Computational Cognitive Neuroscience by : Yuko Munakata

Download or read book Computational Cognitive Neuroscience written by Yuko Munakata and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to computer modeling of the brain, to understand how people think. Networks of interacting neurons produce complex emergent behavior including perception, attention, motor control, learning, memory, language, and executive functions (motivation, decision making, planning, etc).

Quantifiers and Cognition: Logical and Computational Perspectives

Author : Jakub Szymanik
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319287494
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Book Synopsis Quantifiers and Cognition: Logical and Computational Perspectives by : Jakub Szymanik

Download or read book Quantifiers and Cognition: Logical and Computational Perspectives written by Jakub Szymanik and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume on the semantic complexity of natural language explores the question why some sentences are more difficult than others. While doing so, it lays the groundwork for extending semantic theory with computational and cognitive aspects by combining linguistics and logic with computations and cognition. Quantifier expressions occur whenever we describe the world and communicate about it. Generalized quantifier theory is therefore one of the basic tools of linguistics today, studying the possible meanings and the inferential power of quantifier expressions by logical means. The classic version was developed in the 1980s, at the interface of linguistics, mathematics and philosophy. Before this volume, advances in "classic" generalized quantifier theory mainly focused on logical questions and their applications to linguistics, this volume adds a computational component, the third pillar of language use and logical activity. This book is essential reading for researchers in linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, logic, AI, and computer science.

Computational Modeling of Cognition and Behavior

Author : Simon Farrell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110710999X
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis Computational Modeling of Cognition and Behavior by : Simon Farrell

Download or read book Computational Modeling of Cognition and Behavior written by Simon Farrell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an integrated framework for developing and testing computational models in psychology and related disciplines. Researchers and students are given the knowledge and tools to interpret models published in their area, as well as to develop, fit, and test their own models.

Design Computing and Cognition '18

Author : John S. Gero
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030053636
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Design Computing and Cognition '18 written by John S. Gero and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-07 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC’18) held at the Polytecnico di Milano in Italy. This volume presents both advances in theory and applications and demonstrates the depth and breadth of design computing and design cognition. Design thinking, the label given to the acts of designing, has become a paradigmatic view that has transcended the discipline of design and is now widely used in business and elsewhere. As a consequence there is an increasing interest in design research. This volume contains papers that represent the state-of-the-art research and developments in design computing and design cognition. This book is of particular interest to researchers, developers and users of advanced computation in design and those who need to gain a better understanding of designing that can be obtained through empirical studies.

From Neuron to Cognition via Computational Neuroscience

Author : Michael A. Arbib
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262335271
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Book Synopsis From Neuron to Cognition via Computational Neuroscience by : Michael A. Arbib

Download or read book From Neuron to Cognition via Computational Neuroscience written by Michael A. Arbib and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, integrated, and accessible textbook presenting core neuroscientific topics from a computational perspective, tracing a path from cells and circuits to behavior and cognition. This textbook presents a wide range of subjects in neuroscience from a computational perspective. It offers a comprehensive, integrated introduction to core topics, using computational tools to trace a path from neurons and circuits to behavior and cognition. Moreover, the chapters show how computational neuroscience—methods for modeling the causal interactions underlying neural systems—complements empirical research in advancing the understanding of brain and behavior. The chapters—all by leaders in the field, and carefully integrated by the editors—cover such subjects as action and motor control; neuroplasticity, neuromodulation, and reinforcement learning; vision; and language—the core of human cognition. The book can be used for advanced undergraduate or graduate level courses. It presents all necessary background in neuroscience beyond basic facts about neurons and synapses and general ideas about the structure and function of the human brain. Students should be familiar with differential equations and probability theory, and be able to pick up the basics of programming in MATLAB and/or Python. Slides, exercises, and other ancillary materials are freely available online, and many of the models described in the chapters are documented in the brain operation database, BODB (which is also described in a book chapter). Contributors Michael A. Arbib, Joseph Ayers, James Bednar, Andrej Bicanski, James J. Bonaiuto, Nicolas Brunel, Jean-Marie Cabelguen, Carmen Canavier, Angelo Cangelosi, Richard P. Cooper, Carlos R. Cortes, Nathaniel Daw, Paul Dean, Peter Ford Dominey, Pierre Enel, Jean-Marc Fellous, Stefano Fusi, Wulfram Gerstner, Frank Grasso, Jacqueline A. Griego, Ziad M. Hafed, Michael E. Hasselmo, Auke Ijspeert, Stephanie Jones, Daniel Kersten, Jeremie Knuesel, Owen Lewis, William W. Lytton, Tomaso Poggio, John Porrill, Tony J. Prescott, John Rinzel, Edmund Rolls, Jonathan Rubin, Nicolas Schweighofer, Mohamed A. Sherif, Malle A. Tagamets, Paul F. M. J. Verschure, Nathan Vierling-Claasen, Xiao-Jing Wang, Christopher Williams, Ransom Winder, Alan L. Yuille

Neurocognitive Mechanisms

Author : Gualtiero Piccinini
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198866283
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Neurocognitive Mechanisms written by Gualtiero Piccinini and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gualtiero Piccinini presents a systematic and rigorous philosophical defence of the computational theory of cognition. His view posits that cognition involves neural computation within multilevel neurocognitive mechanisms, and includes novel ideas about ontology, functions, neural representation, neural computation, and consciousness.

Computation and Cognition

Author : Zenon W. Pylyshyn
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262160988
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (69 download)

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Book Synopsis Computation and Cognition by : Zenon W. Pylyshyn

Download or read book Computation and Cognition written by Zenon W. Pylyshyn and published by Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This systematic investigation of computation and mental phenomena by a noted psychologist and computer scientist argues that cognition is a form of computation, that the semantic contents of mental states are encoded in the same general way as computer representations are encoded.

Organizational Cognition

Author : Theresa K. Lant
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135667195
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Organizational Cognition written by Theresa K. Lant and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly book in Management, this book will appeal to those interested in the subject of cognition and its impact on organizational studies. Contributors include such famous names as James March and William Starbuck.

Language, Cognition, and Computational Models

Author : Thierry Poibeau
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110850678X
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Book Synopsis Language, Cognition, and Computational Models by : Thierry Poibeau

Download or read book Language, Cognition, and Computational Models written by Thierry Poibeau and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do infants learn a language? Why and how do languages evolve? How do we understand a sentence? This book explores these questions using recent computational models that shed new light on issues related to language and cognition. The chapters in this collection propose original analyses of specific problems and develop computational models that have been tested and evaluated on real data. Featuring contributions from a diverse group of experts, this interdisciplinary book bridges the gap between natural language processing and cognitive sciences. It is divided into three sections, focusing respectively on models of neural and cognitive processing, data driven methods, and social issues in language evolution. This book will be useful to any researcher and advanced student interested in the analysis of the links between the brain and the language faculty.

Computation, Cognition, and Pylyshyn

Author : Don Dedrick
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262012847
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Computation, Cognition, and Pylyshyn written by Don Dedrick and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zenon Pylyshyn is a towering figure in cognitive science; his book "Computation and Cognition" (MIT Press, 1984) is a foundational presentation of the relationship between cognition and computation. His recent work on vision and its preconceptual mechanism has been influential and controversial. In this book, leading cognitive scientists address major topics in Pylyshyn's work and discuss his contributions to the cognitive sciences. Contributors discuss vision, considering such topics as multiple-object tracking, action, molecular and cellular cognition, and inhibition of return; and foundational issues, including connectionism, modularity, the evolution of the perception of number, computation, cognitive architecture, location, and visual sensory representations of objects.

Cognition in the Wild

Author : Edwin Hutchins
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262581469
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Cognition in the Wild written by Edwin Hutchins and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1996-08-26 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwin Hutchins combines his background as an anthropologist and an open ocean racing sailor and navigator in this account of how anthropological methods can be combined with cognitive theory to produce a new reading of cognitive science. His theoretical insights are grounded in an extended analysis of ship navigation—its computational basis, its historical roots, its social organization, and the details of its implementation in actual practice aboard large ships. The result is an unusual interdisciplinary approach to cognition in culturally constituted activities outside the laboratory—"in the wild." Hutchins examines a set of phenomena that have fallen in the cracks between the established disciplines of psychology and anthropology, bringing to light a new set of relationships between culture and cognition. The standard view is that culture affects the cognition of individuals. Hutchins argues instead that cultural activity systems have cognitive properties of their own that are different from the cognitive properties of the individuals who participate in them. Each action for bringing a large naval vessel into port, for example, is informed by culture: the navigation team can be seen as a cognitive and computational system. Introducing Navy life and work on the bridge, Hutchins makes a clear distinction between the cognitive properties of an individual and the cognitive properties of a system. In striking contrast to the usual laboratory tasks of research in cognitive science, he applies the principal metaphor of cognitive science—cognition as computation (adopting David Marr's paradigm)—to the navigation task. After comparing modern Western navigation with the method practiced in Micronesia, Hutchins explores the computational and cognitive properties of systems that are larger than an individual. He then turns to an analysis of learning or change in the organization of cognitive systems at several scales. Hutchins's conclusion illustrates the costs of ignoring the cultural nature of cognition, pointing to the ways in which contemporary cognitive science can be transformed by new meanings and interpretations. A Bradford Book

Eco-Cognitive Computationalism

Author : Lorenzo Magnani
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030814475
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Eco-Cognitive Computationalism written by Lorenzo Magnani and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book mainly focuses on the widely distributed nature of computational tools, models, and methods, ultimately related to the current importance of computational machines as mediators of cognition. An entirely new eco-cognitive approach to computation is offered, to underline the question of the overwhelming cognitive domestication of ignorant entities, which is persistently at work in our current societies. Eco-cognitive computationalism does not aim at furnishing an ultimate and static definition of the concepts of information, cognition, and computation, instead, it intends, by respecting their historical and dynamical character, to propose an intellectual framework that depicts how we can understand their forms of “emergence” and the modification of their meanings, also dealing with impressive unconventional non-digital cases. The new proposed perspective also leads to a clear description of the divergence between weak and strong levels of creative “abductive” hypothetical cognition: weak accomplishments are related to “locked abductive strategies”, typical of computational machines, and deep creativity is instead related to “unlocked abductive strategies”, which characterize human cognizers, who benefit from the so-called “eco-cognitive openness”.

Design Computing and Cognition '12

Author : John S. Gero
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401791120
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Design Computing and Cognition '12 written by John S. Gero and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-03 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design thinking, the label given to the acts of designing, has become a paradigmatic view that has transcended the discipline of design and is now widely used in business and elsewhere. As a consequence there is an increasing interest in design research. This is because of the realization that design is part of the wealth creation of a nation and needs to be better understood and taught. The continuing globalization of industry and trade has required nations to re-examine where their core contributions lie if not in production efficiency. Design is a precursor to manufacturing for physical objects and is the precursor to implementation for virtual objects. At the same time, the need for sustainable development requires the design of new products and processes, which feeds a movement towards design innovations and inventions. The papers in this volume are from the Fifth International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC’12) held at Texas A & M University, USA. They represent the state-of-the-art of research and development in design computing and design cognition. They are of particular interest to researchers, developers and users of advanced computation in design and those who need to gain a better understanding of designing.

Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Computing

Author : Miltiadis D. Lytras
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 303651161X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Computing written by Miltiadis D. Lytras and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artificial intelligence (AI) is a subject garnering increasing attention in both academia and the industry today. The understanding is that AI-enhanced methods and techniques create a variety of opportunities related to improving basic and advanced business functions, including production processes, logistics, financial management and others. As this collection demonstrates, AI-enhanced tools and methods tend to offer more precise results in the fields of engineering, financial accounting, tourism, air-pollution management and many more. The objective of this collection is to bring these topics together to offer the reader a useful primer on how AI-enhanced tools and applications can be of use in today’s world. In the context of the frequently fearful, skeptical and emotion-laden debates on AI and its value added, this volume promotes a positive perspective on AI and its impact on society. AI is a part of a broader ecosystem of sophisticated tools, techniques and technologies, and therefore, it is not immune to developments in that ecosystem. It is thus imperative that inter- and multidisciplinary research on AI and its ecosystem is encouraged. This collection contributes to that.

Memory and the Computational Brain

Author : C. R. Gallistel
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781405122870
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (228 download)

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Book Synopsis Memory and the Computational Brain by : C. R. Gallistel

Download or read book Memory and the Computational Brain written by C. R. Gallistel and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memory and the Computational Brain offers a provocative argument that goes to the heart of neuroscience, proposing that the field can and should benefit from the recent advances of cognitive science and the development of information theory over the course of the last several decades. A provocative argument that impacts across the fields of linguistics, cognitive science, and neuroscience, suggesting new perspectives on learning mechanisms in the brain Proposes that the field of neuroscience can and should benefit from the recent advances of cognitive science and the development of information theory Suggests that the architecture of the brain is structured precisely for learning and for memory, and integrates the concept of an addressable read/write memory mechanism into the foundations of neuroscience Based on lectures in the prestigious Blackwell-Maryland Lectures in Language and Cognition, and now significantly reworked and expanded to make it ideal for students and faculty