Deep Learning: How The Mind Overrides Experience Stellan Ohlsson

• Auteur : Stellan Ohlsson
• Editeur : Cambridge Univ Pr
• Langue : Anglais
• Parution : 01/01/2011
• Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg
• Nombre de pages : 523
• Dimensions : 23.8 x 16.4 x 3.7

Critique / Article
The mind's ability to change is at the centre of everything distinctively human. Ohlsson deals with three central kinds of cognitive change: creativity, acquiring new skills, and revising beliefs in the light of new information. He offers new, highly original theories of each, built on three cognitive mechanisms: redistribution of activation, specialization of practical knowledge, and re-subsumption of factual information. This would already be enough to make the book important but Ohlsson does one more thing: he welds the three theories together. The result is a single, unified theory of all three kinds of conceptual change. Thus he takes us a significant step closer to the dream of a single, unified theory of cognition as a whole. Essential reading for anyone interested in how minds change. - Andrew Brook, Carleton University This book describes a more sophisticated theory of the mental processes that support and cause cognitive change. These aspects of cognition (creativity, strategy change, and belief revision) will become important areas for cognitive science to explore and explain. Ohlsson's theories encourage us to examine the next metalevel of how cognition changes, and the proposed mechanisms will provide many challenges for cognitive models and architectures. - Frank Ritter, The Pennsylvania State University Deep Learning inspired me to do some deep thinking about cognitive change, indeed, about the very nature of change itself. Ohlsson's description of cognitive change and the ability to override experience defines an essential aspect of what makes us human. - Gale M. Sinatra, University of Nevada, Las Vegas ...This volume is must reading for cognitive psychologists interested in fundamental questions about the mind. It is the best and most important work in cognitive psychology I have read in a long time... a field that sometimes focuses extensively on detailed models of minor phenomena, Ohlsson addresses some of the big questions that cognitive psychology promised to answer but hasn't gotten around to. It should serve as an excellent starting point for discussions about cognitive change for years to come. -Dr. David W. Carroll, University of Wisconsin-Superior, PsycCRITIQUES