Book Review: Allen Newell, Unified Theories of Cognition
نویسنده
چکیده
Besides being a status report on the Soar project, Unified Theories of Cognition is Allen Newell’s attempt at directing the field of Cognitive Science by example. Newell argues that his approach to "unification," which involves the programmed extension of a single piece of software-architecture-as-theory to as many psychological domains as possible, is the proper research methodology for Cognitive Science today:
منابع مشابه
On Unified Theories of Cognition: A Response to the Reviews
This is a tough one. Clearly, neither of us is Allen Newell, and there is no way that we can do the job he would have liked to have done in responding to these thought-provoking reviews of Unified Theories of Cognition (henceforth, UTC). However, it was very important to Allen-and is very important to us--that the work on Soar and unified theories of cognition carry on. So, here we will do what...
متن کاملToward a Unified View of Cognitive Control
Allen Newell (1973) once observed that psychology researchers were playing "twenty questions with nature," carving up human cognition into hundreds of individual phenomena but shying away from the difficult task of integrating these phenomena with unifying theories. We argue that research on cognitive control has followed a similar path, and that the best approach toward unifying theories of co...
متن کاملSoar as a Unified Theory of Cognition: Spring 1990
Richard L. Lewis School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University Scott B. Huffman Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan Bonnie E. John School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University John E. Laird Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan Jill Fain Lehman School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon...
متن کاملUnified theories and theories that mimic each other's predictions.
sion of how SOAR might apply to the learning of language, its comprehension and production. Use is made here of the important notion of chunking that Newell rightly brings to the fore throughout his discussion of many different psychological processes. On the other hand, for those who have attempted to deal with the troublesome and intricate details of language learning, comprehension, or produ...
متن کاملIndividual Data Analysis and Unified Theories of Cognition: A Methodological Proposal
Unified theories regularly appear in psychology. They also regularly fail to fulfil all of their goals. Newell (1990) called for their revival, using computer modelling as a way to avoid the pitfalls of previous attempts. His call, embodied in the Soar project has so far, however, failed to produce the breakthrough it promised. One of the reasons for the lack of success of Newell’s approach is ...
متن کامل