Tag
Cognitive Science
Entries tagged cognitive science.
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Concept
Levels of Explanation
Any information-processing system can be described at three separate levels (what problem it solves, by what procedure, and in what physical stuff), and picking the wrong level guarantees the wrong explanation.
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ConceptThe Cognitive Revolution
The mid-century shift, led by Chomsky, Miller, and Neisser, that put unobservable mental states back on psychology's table after fifty years in which behaviorism had ruled them out of bounds.
8 min
ConceptThe Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
The claim that the language you speak shapes how you think, strongly supported in its modest form and rejected in its extreme one.
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