How computational models help explain the origins of reasoning

IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 32-40

  Mareschal, Denis ^a   Thomas, Michael S C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA PROCESSING; FORMAL LANGUAGES; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; COMPUTATIONAL MODELS; FORMAL SYSTEMS; PSYCHOLOGY;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EID: 33748123242     PISSN: 1556603X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCI.2006.1672986     Document Type: Article

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