Categorizing cognition : toward conceptual coherence in the foundations of psychology

"All sciences need ways to classify the phenomena they investigate; chemistry has the periodic table and biology a taxonomic system for classifying life forms. These classification schemes depend on conceptual coherence, demonstrated correspondences across paradigms. This conceptual coherence h...

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Auteur principal : Halford Graeme S. (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : Categorizing cognition : toward conceptual coherence in the foundations of psychology / Graeme S. Halford, William H. Wilson, Glenda Andrews, and Steven Phillips
Publié : Cambridge (Mass.) : The MIT Press , cop. 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIII-358 p.)
Sujets :
  • Introduction and statement of the problem
  • Properties of cognitive processes
  • Relational knowledge in higher cognition
  • Cognitive complexities and correspondences
  • Representational rank
  • Acquisition of relational knowledge and the origin of symbols
  • Neural nets as models of acquisition processes
  • Human reasoning and relational knowledge
  • Applications of relational knowledge theory
  • Conclusion