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The Handbook of Cognition provides a definitive synthesis of the most up-to-date and advanced work in cognitive psychology in a single volume. The editors have gathered together a team of world-leading researchers in specialist areas of the field, both traditional and `hot' new areas, to present a benchmark - in terms of theoretical insight and advances in methodology - of the discipline. This book contains a thorough overview of the most significant and current research in cognitive psychology that will serve this academic community like no other volume.
Chapter 13: Reasoning
The cognitive science perspective on the mind views thought as information processing. More specifically, this information processing is not merely arbitrary computation; it typically involves deriving new information from existing information. For example, visual perceptual analysis and categorization are viewed as taking low-level information about the pattern of light incident at the retina, and creating a representation of information about objects in the environment, their movements, interrelationships and causal powers. Speech production involves mapping from representations of an intention (the message to be conveyed), to a detailed set of information providing instructions to the tongue, lips and voice box. To take a final example, problem solving involves taking the information given in a problem, and mapping on to a representation of the ...
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