cognition intelligence knowlege thought perception intellect

o “the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses”.[2] It encompasses many aspects of intellectual functions and processes such as: attention, the formation of knowledge, memory and working memory, judgment and evaluation, reasoning and “computation”, problem solving and decision making, comprehension and production of language. Cognitive processes use existing knowledge and generate new knowledge.

Cognitive processes are analyzed from different perspectives within different contexts, notably in the fields of linguistics, anesthesia, neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, education, philosophy, anthropology, biology, systemics, logic, and computer science.[3] These and other different approaches to the analysis of cognition are synthesised in the developing field of cognitive science, a progressively autonomous academic discipline.

con = with gnosis = knowledge

cognize = to know

sensation, attention, and perception. Cognition also includes complex mental operations such as memory, learning, language use, problem solving, decision making, reasoning, and intelligence.

• thought
• experience
• the senses

intellectual functions and processes such as:

• attention
• the formation of knowledge
• memory and working memory
• judgment and evaluation,
• reasoning and “computation”,
• problem solving and decision making,
• comprehension and production of language

Cognitive processes

• use existing knowledge and
• generate new knowledge.

Chomsky cognitive capacities

• have not changed in 50,000 years
• must be elicited by experience

continuity of objects

?:

• vision
• Language
• Math - abstract principles, number, magnitude
• Music

chomsky?:

• visual space
• facial recognition
• abstract principles of numbers
• music
• social structures
• language

reasoning, argument

Executive function (EF) = refers to the collection of cognitive skills (inhibition, working memory updating, task-set switching, attention) that give rise to goal-directed behaviour.

Executive function ⇒ goal-seeking

George Miller, in recent article, a meeting in 1956, Cambridge, (MIT or Harvard), radio engineers, experimental human psychology. a paper by Noam, another paper by Herb Simon. Miller claims these papers started conitive science.

Shift away from behavior and its products, toward the states and properties of the brain and mind.

inner workings of the mind mind = relevant properties, states, and processes of the brain

in the new view, behavior is data only, to be used with other data, like EEG data for example

away from behavioral science, structuralism, statistical analysis of texts

toward cognitive science

from natural history toward natural science

computational representational systems like a software problem

a pattern unification (of scientific theories)

universal grammar the innate language capability, as observed in an infant is unique in the animal world also, the fact of “discrete infinity” is rare in the animal world

language acquisition stable at puberty

assume the parser exists, does not grow, is universal, has switches to flip between languages, is easy and quick (false)

signal

Linguistics, a subhead under language NLP, related to statistical analysis of texts