Theoretical status of computational cognitive modeling

Cognitive Systems Research

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 124-140

  Sun, Ron ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive architecture; Cognitive modeling; Simulation; Theory; Validation

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURE; COGNITIVE MODELING; SIMULATION; THEORY; VALIDATION;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COGNITION; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER MODEL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THEORY VALIDATION; THINKING;

EID: 60649093068     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13890417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogsys.2008.07.002     Document Type: Article

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