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Explanations in cognitive science

✍ Scribed by C. Beardon

Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 1988
Tongue: English
Weight: 737 KB
Volume: 2
Category: Article
ISSN: 0269-2821
DOI: 10.1007/bf00159146

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✦ Synopsis

Cognitive science may be loosely described as the activity of trying to model aspects of human behaviour upon a computer. It has emerged as a blending of the techniques of artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology but these two disciplines have different, and incompatible, philosophies. Searte has detected elements of behaviourism and operationism within artificial intelligence, whereas cognitive psychology is essentially anti-behaviourist. It is argued that cognitive science needs to distinguish between 'competence' and 'performance' in order to clarify this point, and that such a distinction has far-reaching effects on how we view computer simulations of behaviour.

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