Models of the brain Flashcards
what are the 3 streams?
neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence
what are some characteristics of AI?
logic, symbolic approach, machine learning
what was AIs first topic?
reasoning (looked at reasoning processes to create inference)
how are psychology, neuroscience and AI interlinked?
back and forth ideas and findings between the disciplines e.g. AI uses ideas from neuroscience such as learning in neural networks
what did Aristotle argue?
that its about the structure of the info rather than the specific meaning of words
how were machines first used in AI?
symbolic logic > manipulate symbols to automate the process of reasoning, begin solving problems by translating facts into symbols
what are the 3 types of models?
data-analysis model, box and arrow model, computational model
data driven, purely descriptive, correlational. what model is this?
data-analysis model
what are the 2 types of information processing models?
box and arrow model, computational model
conceptual, implicit assumptions, common in psych, general processes and how they link together, transformations of ideas/info = what model is this?
box and arrow model
information processing model implemented as a simulation, explicit assumptions, abstraction, runs on a computer in code/symbols = what type go model?
computational model
when studying a cognitive process we always employ models often explicit or implicit?
implicit
computational models make assumptions ______ so assumptions can then be tested
explicit
why do we use models?
allow implicit assumptions to become explicit, allows for prediction, gives explanation, abstraction and idealisation
models can be _______ even if not predictive
explanatory
