Are there reasons to challenge a symbolic computationalist approach in explaining deductive reasoning?

Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 212-218

  Faiciuc, Lucia E ^a  

^a ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS   (Romania)

Author keywords

Deductive reasoning; Nonlinear dynamics; Symbolic computationalism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SYMBOLISM; THINKING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COGNITION; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LINGUISTICS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SYMBOLISM; THINKING;

EID: 54049145555     PISSN: 19324502     EISSN: 19363567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12124-007-9047-2     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Bonatti, L. (2002). Raisonnement predicatif. In G. Politzer (Ed.) Traité de Sciences Cognitives: Le Raisonnement (pp. 137-182). Paris: Hermès.
2. Braine, M. D. S. (1998). Steps toward a mental predicate logic. In M. D. S. Braine, D. P. O'Brien (Eds.) Mental logic (pp. 273-332). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.
3. M. Bucciarelli P. N. Johnson-Laird 1999 Strategies in syllogistic reasoning Cognitive Science 23 247 303
4. N. Chater M. Oaksford 1999 The probability heuristics model of syllogistic reasoning Cognitive Psychology 38 191 258
5. J. A. Fodor B. P. McLaughlin 1990 Connectionism and the problem of systematicity: Why Smolensky's solution doesn't work Cognition 35 183 204
6. Freeman, W. J., & Barrie, J. M. (1994). Chaotic oscillations and the genesis of meaning in cerebral cortex. In G. Buzsaki, R. Llinas, W. Singer, A. Berthoz, & Y. Christen (Eds.) Temporal coding in the brain (pp. 13-37). Berlin: Springer.
7. V. Goel 2003 Evidence for dual neural pathways for syllogistic reasoning Psychologica 32 301 309
8. H. Haken 1994 Synergetics: From pattern formation to pattern analysis and pattern recognition International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 4 1069 1083
9. K. Kaneko 1998 Life as complex systems: Viewpoint from intra-inter dynamics Complexity 3 53 60
10. H. Marrero E. Gámez 2003 The effect of pragmatic content in syllogistic reasoning: Stronger than atmosphere and believability Cognitive Science Quarterly 3 237 259
11. M. Oaksford M. Malloch 1993 Computational and biological constraints in the psychology of reasoning Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 468 469
12. Ohm, E. (2005). The Relationship between Formal and Informal Reasoning. Retrieved April 12, 2007, from http://library2.usask.ca/theses/available/etd- 10202005-212416/unrestricted/PhD.pdf.
13. T. A. Polk A. Newell 1995 Deduction as verbal reasoning Psychological Review 102 533 566
14. Port, R., & van Gelder, T. J. (1995). Mind as motion: Explorations in the dynamics of cognition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
15. L. J. Rips 1983 Cognitive processes in propositional reasoning Psychological Review 90 38 71
16. P. Rodriguez J. Wiles J. L. Elman 1999 A recurrent neural network that learns to count Connection Science 11 5 40
17. L. Shastri V. Ajjanagadde 1993 From simple associations to systematic reasoning: A connectionist representation of rules variables and dynamic bindings using temporal synchrony Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 417 494
18. I. Tsuda 2001 Toward an interpretation of dynamic neural activity in terms of chaotic dynamical systems Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24 93 847