The Cambridge Handbook of Computational Psychology (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521674107 ISBN 13: 9780521674102

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

This book is a definitive reference source for the growing, increasingly more important, and interdisciplinary field of computational cognitive modeling, that is, computational psychology. It combines breadth of coverage with definitive statements by leading scientists in this field. Research in computational cognitive modeling explores the essence of cognition through developing detailed, process-based understanding by specifying computational mechanisms, structures, and processes. Computational models provide both conceptual clarity and precision at the same time. This book substantiates this approach through overviews and many examples.

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Book Description:

This book is a definitive reference source for the growing, increasingly more important, and interdisciplinary field of computational cognitive modeling. Research in computational cognitive modeling explores cognition through developing detailed, process-based understanding by specifying computational mechanisms, structures, and processes. This book substantiates this approach through overviews and many examples.

About the Author:

Dr. Ron Sun is Professor of Cognitive Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. A well-known researcher in the field of cognitive science, Sun explores the fundamental structure of the human mind and aims for the synthesis of many interesting intellectual ideas into one coherent model of cognition. The goal is to form a generic cognitive architecture that captures a variety of cognitive processes in a unified way and thus to provide unified explanations for a wide range of cognitive data. To do so, for the past two decades, he has been advocating the use of hybrid connectionist-symbolic systems in developing cognitive models and he has been developing theories of human skill learning and human everyday reasoning as the centerpieces of the cognitive architecture.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521674107
• ISBN 13: 9780521674102
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 768
• Editor: Sun Ron