Many proposals for evaluating cognitive architectures rely partly on an analogy between cognitive science and other sciences. We therefore reflect on the relations between cognitive science, cognitive architectures and other sciences. Some important differences caution against the misguided use of some evaluation approaches. Some unique characteristics of human intelligence motivate the need fo...

Numerous innocent people have been sent to jail based directly or indirectly on normal, but flawed, human perception, memory and decision making. Current cognitive-science research addresses the issues that are directly relevant to the connection between normal cognitive functioning and such judicial errors, and suggests means by which the false-conviction rate could be reduced. Here, we illust...

Cognitive science and the arts are natural partners. The arts are produced by the mind, the brain, and the body and comprehended, interpreted, and appreciated by the mind, the brain, and the body. The arts make special contributions to cognitive science by providing a rich, natural, multisensory, multi-cultural arena for study and analysis. Recent research bears this out. Projects connecting th...

As the electronic version of The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (Wilson and Keil, 1999) has now lost its disembodied (and unquotable) form and become incarnate as the official reference work of a vital and expansionary cognitive science, a less reassuring picture of the field is evoked by Two Sciences of Mind, the result of the workshop on Reaching for Mind: Foundations of Cognitive...

Self-control depletion theory claims to account for between-task performance changes in terms of the consumption of a limited cognitive resource. Dual-task designs have been used to demonstrate that increased self-control on an initial effortful task predicted decreased self-control on a later categorically distinct effortful task, supporting a non-rational (i.e., not based upon explicit value ...

This paper explores how an automated procedure may leverage domain knowledge and reasoning to further automate Machine Learning (ML) and Data Science in a manner that may be thought of as cognitive. To this end, we first describe key features that we believe a cognitive automation system for data science must possess. The goal of a system embodying this concept would be to extend existing data-...

This is the 7th newsletter of the CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN LANGUAGE, a research center at the University of California, San Diego, which unites the efforts of researchers in such disciplines as Linguistics, Psychology, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Communication, Sociology, and Philosophy, all of whom share an interest in language. We regularly feature papers relevant to language and...

subjunctive 13 2 8 3* 0 1 2 1 1 0 0 31 TABLE 4. Frequencies of card choice combinations by conditions. The modified conjunction task and its new baseline condition are below the earlier results which are repeated here for convenience. Classical logical competence responses are marked *. Any response made by at least three subjects in at least one condition is categorised: everything else is mis...