Expert systems: A cognitive science perspective

Expert Systems: A Management Perspective

Expert systems are computer programmes that can reproduce the behaviour of human experts in specific problem domains. In many places, development of expert systems is the major focus of fifth generation software projects. Accordingly, enormous amounts of resources are being spent on work in this field. Expert systems have enjoyed considerable success in many scientific and technological applica...

The Cognitive Science Perspective

The number of U.S. students who enter engineering programs in college is projected to drop, a trend that many believe will have a negative impact on the U.S. workforce (NAS et al., 2007; NAE and NRC, 2009). In addition, students who do pursue engineering degrees do not reflect the diversity of students in the United States, a pattern of enrollment that is likely to have a number of negative con...

Metaphor Understanding { a Cognitive Science Perspective

This paper surveys some of the important trends of the research on metaphor comprehension in the cognitive science area. We examine the semantic theories of the metaphor, some pros and (mostly) cons of the very challenged error-recovery model of metaphor comprehension. We present Lakoo's view that metaphors are conceptual rather than linguistic phenomena; we discuss how theories of other tropes...

Reader: Cognitive Science: An Information Processing Perspective

Watching a speaker in face-to-face communication can influence what the perceiver hears the speaker saying. I tested whether written language would also influence audible speech perception. Observers identified spoken syllables while reading a written syllable. Observers identified what they heard the speaker saying. The two hypotheses are 1) reading a written syllable will have a strong influe...

Cognitive Systems a cybernetic perspective on the new science of the mind