Deep learning : how the mind overrides experience / Stellan Ohlsson.
"Although the ability to retain, process, and project prior experience onto future situations is indispensable, the human mind also possesses the ability to override experience and adapt to changing circumstances. Cognitive scientist Stellan Ohlsson analyzes three types of deep, non-monotonic c...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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2011.
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| Summary: | "Although the ability to retain, process, and project prior experience onto future situations is indispensable, the human mind also possesses the ability to override experience and adapt to changing circumstances. Cognitive scientist Stellan Ohlsson analyzes three types of deep, non-monotonic cognitive change: creative insight, adaptation of cognitive skills by learning from errors, and conversion from one belief to another, incompatible belief. For each topic, Ohlsson summarizes past research, re-formulates the relevant research questions, and proposes information-processing mechanisms that answer those questions. The three theories are based on the principles of redistribution of activation, specialization of practical knowledge, and re-subsumption of declarative information. Ohlsson develops the implications of those mechanisms by scaling their effects with respect to time, complexity, and social interaction. The book ends with a unified theory of non-monotonic cognitive change that captures the abstract properties that the three types of change share"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 523 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-514) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781139101202 113910120X 1139099183 9781139099189 9780511780295 051178029X 9781139100540 1139100548 1283341662 9781283341660 1107218217 9781107218215 1139097210 9781139097215 1139103008 9781139103008 9786613341662 6613341665 1139098519 9781139098519 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511780295 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |