Cognitive Science articles from March 2001

Cognitive Science archives from March 2001

Predication.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... 1. Introduction Most words in most languages can be used in several different ways so that their meaning is subtly or not so subtly modified by their context. Dictionaries, therefore, distinguish multiple senses of a word. Each sense of a...

From implicit skills to explicit knowledge: a bottom-up model of skill learning.
March 1, 2001... 1. Introduction The acquisition and use of skill constitute a major portion of human activities. Naturally the study of skill learning is a major focus of research in cognitive science. The most widely studied in cognitive science is...

Integrating structure and meaning: a distributed model of analogical mapping.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... 1. Introduction Most connectionist models focus on low-level cognitive tasks such as categorization, recognition, and simple learning (Churchland and Sejnowski, 1992). Critics of connectionism often contend that these models, though...

A computational model of frontal lobe dysfunction: working memory and the Tower of Hanoi task.
March 1, 2001... 1. Introduction Working memory--the capacity to temporarily hold information in mind in the absence of external aids (and usually while some operation is performed on it)--is one strong candidate for a unitary account of the function of...