scholarly journals Chomskyan Theory and Cognition Study Linguistic Cognitive Interdisciplinary approach: نظرية تشومسكي وتفسير القضايا الإدراكية الذهنية: دراسة لسانية إدراكية بينية

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Mohamed Ali Rajeh
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Human Intelligence ◽  
Great Understanding ◽  
Mental Process ◽  
Human Language ◽  
Universal Principles ◽  
Contemporary Epistemology

Underpinned by contemporary epistemology in conjunction with cognitive science, cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience, this interdisciplinary linguistic study titled “Chomskyan Theory and Cognition Study” aims to examine and explain how can Chomskyan Linguistics contributes to understanding of epistemological issues (cognition/mental process) in accordance with his hypothesis’s question: What contribution can the study of language make to our understanding of human nature? To investigate the achievability of Chomsky theory in tackling such issues, this study utilizes essentially the interdisciplinary analytical linguistic method in cooperation with other methods. Eventually, the study has come to multiple findings, most significantly that study of language according to CL not only contributes to understanding of human intelligence and nature; but it is utterly intrinsic in this matter and it provides a great understanding of how we can decode the puzzle of consciousness and its phenomena via explaining the universal principles of human language.

scholarly journals How Efficiency Shapes Human Language, TICS 2019

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Gibson ◽  
Richard Futrell ◽  
Steven T. Piantadosi ◽  
Isabelle Dautriche ◽  
Kyle Mahowald ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Theory ◽  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Human Language ◽  
Language Research ◽  
The Way

Cognitive science applies diverse tools and perspectives to study human language. Recently, an exciting body of work has examined linguistic phenomena through the lens of efficiency in usage: what otherwise puzzling features of language find explanation in formal accounts of how language might be optimized for communication and learning? Here, we review studies that deploy formal tools from probability and information theory to understand how and why language works the way that it does, focusing on phenomena ranging from the lexicon through syntax. These studies show how apervasive pressure for efficiency guides the forms of natural language and indicate that a rich future for language research lies in connecting linguistics to cognitive psychology and mathematical theories of communication and inference.

scholarly journals Working memory and background knowledge - Cognitive science in the design classroom

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pino Trogu
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Graphic Design ◽  
Classroom Instruction ◽  
Background Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Universal Principles ◽  
Student Projects

This article discusses two universal principles from cognitive psychology, and proposes some ways in which those principles relate to graphic design. The two most important principles are first, the strict constraints of working memory, a function which persists for only a few seconds, and second, the finding that perceptions and meanings are mediated by the cultural knowledge of viewers, including their knowledge of design conventions and genre. Better de-signs are likely to emerge from the designer’s familiarity with these psychological and cultur-al principles. Visual examples, including maps and student projects, illustrate how the two principles are useful for classroom instruction.

Neuroscience and the explanation of psychological phenomena

1999 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 847-849 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antti Revonsuo
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Actual Problem ◽  
Philosophy Of Neuroscience ◽  
Psychological Phenomena ◽  
Biological Explanations ◽  
Different Levels

Explanatory problems in the philosophy of neuroscience are not well captured by the division between the radical and the trivial neuron doctrines. The actual problem is, instead, whether mechanistic biological explanations across different levels of description can be extended to account for psychological phenomena. According to cognitive neuroscience, some neural levels of description at least are essential for the explanation of psychological phenomena, whereas, in traditional cognitive science, psychological explanations are completely independent of the neural levels of description. The challenge for cognitive neuroscience is to discover the levels of description appropriate for the neural explanation of psychological phenomena.

Psychology: Autonomous or Anomalous?

Dialogue ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 427-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Kernohan
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
Donald Davidson ◽  
Mental Activity ◽  
Essential Difference ◽  
Anomalous Monism

In a recent series of papers, Donald Davidson has put forward a challenging and original philosophy of mind which he has called anomalous monism. Anomalous monism has certain similarities to another recent and deservedly popular position: functionalist cognitive psychology. Both functionalism, in its materialist versions, and anomalous monism require token-token psychophysical identities rather than type-type ones. (Token identities are identities between individual events; type identities represent a stronger claim of identities between interesting sorts of events.) Both deny that psychology can be translated into, or scientifically reduced to, neurophysiology. Both are mentalistic theories, allowing psychology to make use of intentional descriptions in its theorizing. Anomalous monism uses a belief/desire/action psychology; cognitive science makes use of information-bearing states. But these similarities must not be allowed to conceal an essential difference between the two positions. Cognitive psychology claims to be a science, making interesting, lawlike generalizations for the purpose of explaining mental activity. Anomalous monism denies that psychology is a science by denying that psychological laws can be formulated. Davidson has other ideas for psychology connected with his work on meaning and truth. Hence, the title of one of his essays on anomalous monism is “Psychology as Philosophy”.

Psychological Characteristics of Cognition of Environmental Sculpture Information

2011 ◽  
Vol 187 ◽  
pp. 522-527
Author(s):  
He Yang
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Urban Culture ◽  
Space Environment ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Architectural Language ◽  
Psychology Perspective ◽  
Integral Element ◽  
The Relationship

As an integral element of the space environment, the environmental sculpture plays an important role in the decoration of space environment, the expression of urban culture and reflection of the city's character, etc. Environmental sculpture is a visible symbol independent and outside of the sign of nature or architectural language, which has become an important cultural carrier between the communication of environment and people. From the perspective of cognitive science, this paper analyzes the relationship between people, environment and environmental sculpture to explore the psychological characteristics of cognition of environmental sculpture and examines, analyzes and interprets the phenomenon of environmental sculpture from the cognitive psychology perspective, which brings some enlightenment for the design of environment sculpture.

Convergence and overwriting: Toward an interdisciplinary study of memory

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 1337-1351
Author(s):  
Petar Ramadanovic
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study

This article turns to the debate that followed Paul Connerton’s “Seven Types of Forgetting” to demonstrate how a cultural theory of forgetting can be updated to agree with cognitive science. The article goes on to show what an interdisciplinary approach to memory might look like based on the post-structuralist notion of memory as a substitute or supplement.

scholarly journals A call to arms: time to do cognitive science in Latin America

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
World Region ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Organizational ◽  
Research Domains

Previous theoretical reviews about the development of Psychology in Latin America suggest that Latin American psychology has a promising future. This paper empirically checks whether that status remains justified. In so doing, the frequency of programs/research domains in three salient psychological areas is assessed in Latin America and in two other regions of the world. A chi-square statistic is used to analyse the collected data. Programs/research domains and regions of the world are the independent variables and frequency of programs/research domains per world region is the dependent variable. Results suggest that whereas in Latin America the work on Social/Organizational Psychology is moving within expected parameters, there is a rather strong focus on Clinical/Psychoanalytical Psychology. Results also show that Experimental/Cognitive Psychology is much underestimated. In Asia, however, the focus on all areas of psychology seems to be distributed within expected parameters, whereas Europe outperforms regarding Experimental/Cognitive Psychology research. Potential reasons that contribute to Latin Americas situation are discussed and specific solutions are proposed. It is concluded that the scope of Experimental/Cognitive Psychology in Latin America should be broadened into a Cognitive Science research program.

From Theory to Application

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 779-780
Author(s):  
Ronald A. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
International Association ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Term Paper ◽  
Psychology Theory ◽  
And Performance

Neuropsychology owes much to the pioneering efforts of researchers in cognitive psychology. Theory and methods derived from the cognitive sciences have provided an important foundation for neuropsychology. The Attention and Performance series has been at the vanguard of cognitive psychology, both chronicling major developments in cognitive science that emerged over the past half century, and catalyzing new directions in cognitive theory, method, and application. Most students of psychology can probably recall some time during their undergraduate or graduate studies, pulling from university library shelves, one of the earlier volumes of this series, as they prepared a term paper, thesis, or research project. The 17th volume of Attention and Performance of this edited series was the product of the proceedings of the International Association for the Study of Attention and Performance, held in Haifa, Israel, 30 years after the first edition in 1966. Reviewing the topics covered in the earlier editions, one is struck by the extent to which this series has both mirrored current direction and anticipated shifts in the paradigms of cognitive science.

Cognitive Science of Tourism Experiences

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Noel Scott ◽  
Ana Claudia Campos
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Tourism Research ◽  
Behavioural Approach ◽  
Tourism Experience ◽  
Emotion Memory ◽  
The Way

While other disciplinary approaches such as sociology and anthropology are important, this chapter introduces a cognitivist psychology approach to experience research. Such theoretical discussion may seem of little practical use, but the chapter argues that it is fundamental to understanding how and why experiences are created. The chapter applies theory and concepts from cognitive science (cognitive psychology and neuroscience) in the study of tourism experiences. This provides a different psychological paradigm to the behavioural approach currently in use in much research. The chapter describes the scope of cognitive psychology and neuroscience, its main concepts of cognitive psychology (perception, attention, emotion, memory, consciousness, learning), and their neuronal basis (neuroscience). These concepts are then applied in three topic areas related to tourism experiences: decision making, emotion, and attention. Several applications to tourism experience research are noted. Finally, the chapter discusses the way cognitive psychology concepts can be used in tourism research.

Blackboards in the brain

2006 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-81
Author(s):  
Ralph-Axel Müller
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Recurrent Neural Networks ◽  
Temporal Coherence ◽  
Syntactic Processing ◽  
Human Language ◽  
Blackboard Model ◽  
The Brain

Although van der Velde's de Kamps's (vdV&dK) attempt to put syntactic processing into a broader context of combinatorial cognition is promising, their coverage of neuroscientific evidence is disappointing. Neither their case against binding by temporal coherence nor their arguments against recurrent neural networks are compelling. As an alternative, vdV&dK propose a blackboard model that is based on the assumption of special processors (e.g., lexical versus grammatical), but evidence from the cognitive neuroscience of language, which is, overall, less than supportive of such special processors, is not considered. As a consequence, vdV&dK's may be a clever model of syntactic processing, but it remains unclear how much we can learn from it with regard to biologically based human language.

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