Cognitive Modeling

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Cognitive Modeling

• Psyc 4510, Cogs 4961,
• Cogs 6967,CSCI 4964

Mike Schoelles
http//www.cogsci.rpi.edu/cogworks/cogmod
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Try to estimate.

• Time to move eyes from middle of screen to start
  menu (PC) File menu (MAC)
• Time to move cursor from middle of screen to
  start or file menu.
• Time to recognize the word start or file
• Time to retrieve name of the building for this
  class
• Time to retrieve name of the building of 1st
  class yesterday
• How many words per minute do you speak
• How long to press a key on keyboard

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Newells Time Scale of Human Activity (amended)
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Mind
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How do brain processes give rise to mind? J.
McClellandHow does the brain think? Randy
OReilly Minds are simply what brains do
Marvin MinskyThe Astonishing Hypothesis is
that You, your joys and your sorrows, your
memories and your ambitionsand free will are in
fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly
of neurons Fraincis CrickHow can the mind
exist in the physical universe? John Anderson
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Brain -gt Mind

• Brain is made of neurons
• Not enough, need explanation
• How billions of interacting neurons produce
  (embodied) Cognition
• Need computational approach
• Simulations to explain complex phenomenon