Seminar 1: What renders cognitive models cognitive?

Theme 1: Cognitive models in the behavioral sciences

Noetica Open Forum: Issue 1. The rationale for psychologists using (connectionist) models.

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Theme 2: Biologically realistic models

Kosslyn, S. M. (1994). Image and brain: The resolution of the imagery debate. (excerpt from chapter 2: Carving the system at its joints). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press

O'Reilly, R. C. (1988). Six principles for biologically based computational models of cortical cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2, 11, 455-462

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Theme 3: The symbolic approach to modeling: 'Bounded rationality'

VanLehn, K. (1991). Architectures for intelligence. (chapters 1-2). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

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