Language and Thought in Humans and Computers
Theory and Research in Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, and Neural Science
Published on 28. July 1998
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-0-275-96179-4 (ISBN)
Description
A comprehensive analysis of current theory and research in the psychological, computational, and neural sciences elucidates the stuctures and processes of language and thought. Chapters discuss language comprehension and artificial intelligence, ARCS system for analogical retrieval, ACME model of analogical mapping, PAULINE, an artificial intelligence system for pragmatic language generation, a theory of understanding of spoken and written text, recent developments and effect of different modes of language representation on the efficiency of information processing. This book will be of interest to professionals and scholars in psychology, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
434 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-275-96179-4 (9780275961794)
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Person
MORTON WAGMAN is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and is a Diplomate in Counseling Psychology, American Board of Professional Psychology. He is the author of several books including Cognitive Science and the Mind-Body Problem (Praeger, 1998), The Ultimate Objectives of Artificial Intelligence (Praeger, 1998), Cognitive Science and the Symbolic Operations of Human and Artifiicial Intelligence (Praeger, 1997), The General Unified Theory of Intelligence (Praeger, 1997), and Human Intellect and Science (Praeger, 1996).
Content
Preface Tables and Figures Cognitive Science and the Nature of Language Language and Analogical Retrieval Language and Analogical Mapping Artificial Intelligence and the Pragmatics of Language Generation Capacity Theory of Language Comprehension Language Processes and Brain Imaging Language Representation Modes and Information Processing Efficiency Bibliography Author Index Subject Index