Problem Solving
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Problem Solving

Cognitive Mechanisms and Formal Models

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  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Problem Solving

Cognitive Mechanisms and Formal Models

About this book

Intelligent mental representations of physical, cognitive and social environments allow humans to navigate enormous search spaces, whose sizes vastly exceed the number of neurons in the human brain. This allows us to solve a wide range of problems, such as the Traveling Salesperson Problem, insight problems, as well as mathematics and physics problems. As an area of research, problem solving has steadily grown over time. Researchers in Artificial Intelligence have been formulating theories of problem solving for the last 70 years. Psychologists, on the other hand, have focused their efforts on documenting the observed behavior of subjects solving problems. This book represents the first effort to merge the behavioral results of human subjects with formal models of the causative cognitive mechanisms. The first coursebook to deal exclusively with the topic, it provides a main text for elective courses and a supplementary text for courses such as cognitive psychology and neuroscience.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Tables
  9. Preface
  10. Chapter 1 Problem Solving: Definition of the Main Concepts
  11. Chapter 2 Animal Problem Solving: Innovative Use of Tools
  12. Chapter 3 Modern Research on the Human Ability to Solve Problems that Have Large Search Spaces
  13. Chapter 4 The Exponential Pyramid Representation that Compensates for Exponentially Large Problem Spaces
  14. Chapter 5 Heuristic Function, Distance, and Direction in Solving Problems
  15. Chapter 6 Insight and Creative Thinking
  16. Chapter 7 Inference in Perception: Perceptual Representation: A Rejoinder to Insight
  17. Chapter 8 Cognitive Inferences, Mental Representations
  18. Chapter 9 Theory of Mind
  19. Chapter 10 Solving Problems in Physics and Mathematics
  20. Chapter 11 Summary and Conclusions
  21. References
  22. Index

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