Cognitive Science articles

Recent articles from Cognitive Science

Perceiving temporal regularity in music.
January 1, 2002... 1. Introduction The ease with which people perceive and enjoy music provides cognitive science with significant challenges. Among the most important of these is the perception of time and temporal regularity in auditory sequences. Listeners tend to perceive musical sequences as highly...

Memory for goals: an activation-based model.
January 1, 2002... Keywords: Memory; Problem-solving; Cognitive simulation; Goals; Towers of Hanoi; Prospective memory 1. Introduction When people plan, react to emergencies or other interruptions, or make mental notes to do things in the future, an important process involved is the cognitive...

Spanning seven orders of magnitude: a challenge for cognitive modeling.
January 1, 2002... 1. Introduction The struggle of Psychology has always been to say things of significance to the human experience that have a rigorous scientific foundation. The enormity of human experience and our strong preconceptions about that experience have made this a very difficult task....

Learning words from sights and sounds: a computational model.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... 1. Introduction Infants are born into a rich and complex environment from which they construct mental representations to model structure that they find in the world. These representations enable infants to understand and predict their surroundings and ultimately to achieve their goals....

Model theory of deduction: a unified computational approach.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... 1. Introduction Deduction is a systematic process whose goal is to draw a valid consequence from a series of premises. It requires one to consider the premises as true and to infer what conclusion, if any, follows. By definition, a valid deduction yields a conclusion that must be true...