1st Edition
Conceptual Coordination How the Mind Orders Experience in Time
By William J. Clancey
Copyright 1999
424 Pages
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Psychology Press
252 Pages
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Psychology Press
424 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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This book bridges the gap between models of human behavior that are based on cognitive task analysis and those based on neural networks. The author argues that these approaches are incomplete and not properly related to each other. His synthesis reconciles the very different conceptualizations of human memory assumed by these two approaches by assuming that 'what the brain remembers' is not a... Read more
Contents: Preface. Part I: Computational Models of Process Memory. Introduction: The Temporal Relations of Conceptualization. Computational Memory Architectures. Neural Architectures for Categorization and Sequential Learning. Part II: Serial Learning as Physical Coordination. Coupled Perceptual-Motor Conception. Extending a Felt Path. Slips and Composed Parallel Binding. The Paintbrush Inventors: Analogy and Theorizing. Part III: Speaking as Creating Knowledge. Bartlett's Reconstructive Memory. Transformational Processes, Grammars, and Self-Organizing Strings. Comprehension Difficulties Related to "Interference in Short-Term Memory." Stored Descriptive-Schemas Revisited. Problem-Space Models Revisited. Conclusions: The Nature and Role of Consciousness.
Biography
William J. Clancey
"This book is well reasoned and scholarly."
—Journal of Mathematical Psychology
