INST 354 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Biological Neuron Model, Mental Calculation, Steven Pinker
10 Feb 2019
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Inst354 lecture 3: computational model of the mind. There has been a modest revolution in the sciences of the mind during the past half- century. A new field has emerged, named cognitive science, with a new conceptual paradigm for theorizing about human thought and behavior (gardner, 1985; The computational model is obviously inspired by an analogy between the computing machine and the computing brain, but it is important to remember that it is an analogy. The two devices, brains and computers, perform similar functions, relating input information to output information (or actions) in an amazingly flexible manner, but their internal structures are quite different (most obviously, electronic circuits and biological neurons operate quite differently). The central concept in the notion of a computational model is the manipulation of symbolic information. Perhaps the classic example of a cognitive process is the performance of a mental arithmetic task. 12, and uhhhh write down the 2 and i gotta carry a 1 again.
