Problem Solving: Cognitive Mechanisms and Formal Models

Intelligent mental representations of physical, cognitive and social environments allow humans to navigate enormous search spaces, whose sizes vastly exceed the number of neurons in the human brain. This allows us to solve a wide range of problems, such as the Traveling Salesperson Problem, insight problems, as well as mathematics and physics problems. As an area of research, problem solving has steadily grown over time. Researchers in Artificial Intelligence have been formulating theories of problem solving for the last 70 years. Psychologists, on the other hand, have focused their efforts on documenting the observed behavior of subjects solving problems. This book represents the first effort to merge the behavioral results of human subjects with formal models of the causative cognitive mechanisms. The first coursebook to deal exclusively with the topic, it provides a main text for elective courses and a supplementary text for courses such as cognitive psychology and neuroscience.

Author: Zygmunt Pizlo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 07/07/2022
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.44d
ISBN13: 9781009205597
ISBN10: 1009205595
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition