Some regularities enjoy only an attenuated existence in a body of training data. These are
regularities whose statistical visibility depends on some systematic recoding of the data. The …

Modeling human cognition is challenging because there are infinitely many mechanisms
that can generate any given observation. Some researchers address this by constraining the …

The appropriate methodology for psychological research depends on whether one is
studying mental algorithms or their implementation. Mental algorithms are abstract …

The implicit-explicit distinction is applied to knowledge representations. Knowledge is taken
to be an attitude towards a proposition which is true. The proposition itself predicates a …

The computational view of mind rests on certain intuitions regarding the fundamental
similarity between computation and cognition. We examine some of these intuitions and …

A number of ways of taxonomizing human learning have been proposed. We examine the
evidence for one such proposal, namely, that there exist independent explicit and implicit …

Neuroconstructivism: How the Brain Constructs Cognition proposes a unifying framework for
the study of cognitive development that brings together (1) constructivism (which views …

It is argued that the traditional distinction between artificial intelligence and cognitive
simulation amounts to little more than a difference in style of research~ a different ordering in …

Abstracts Cognitive science typically postulates unconscious mental phenomena,
computational or otherwise, to explain cognitive capacities. The mental phenomena in …

Connectionist models provide a promising alternative to the traditional computational
approach that has for several decades dominated cognitive science and artificial …