CGSC 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Wason Selection Task, Modus Tollens, Visual Cortex

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Cognitive Science
• Course: CGSC 2001
• Professor: Sterling Somers

Document Summary

Interdisciplinary cs: psychology performance, neuroscience brains, ai functions, linguistics structures, philosophy abstract, anthro cultures. For example: studies one level cognitive performance (many tasks); measures behaviour through experiments develop theories, tests theories, example rotation studies: what the task involves, what theories explain the behaviour. He is: psychology of problem solving ai model, logic, conditional reasoning modus tollens (draw) (cid:498)if that"s the cathedral, then the library must be over there. An argument like this can be put into a formula: if trump was born in canada he is canadian rationalist and theorist. Our knowledge comes from our ability to use reason: cognitive psychology and evolutionary psychology challenge. Psychology and neuroscience: neuroscience between connections of neurons. Psychology and neuroscience: the difference: study at different levels (many, trump is not canadian, therefore, he was not born in canada. Local integration: deotic version (good performance, cognitive psychology on reasoning - wason selection task (poor performance) e&4, evolutionary psychology cheater detection module.