Zygmunt Pizlo (Irvine University of California)

Problem Solving

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Problem solving is one of the most fundamental cognitive functions, and now there is finally a textbook for cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience courses that is dedicated to investigating how it works. It brings together insights from psychological research on human subjects with useful formal models from computer science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9781009205597
• ISBN-10: 1009205595
• Artikelnr.: 63400847

Autorenporträt

Zygmunt Pizlo is Professor and Falmagne Endowed Chair in Mathematical Psychology in the Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California at Irvine. He is the author of 3D Shape: Its Unique Place in Visual Perception (2008) and co-author of Making a Machine That Sees Like Us (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Problem solving - definition of the main concepts
2. Animal problem solving: innovative use of tools
3. Modern research on the human's ability to solve problems that have large spaces
4. The exponential pyramid representation that compensates for the exponentially-large problem spaces
5. Heuristic function, distance and direction in solving problems
6. Insight and creative thinking
7. Inference in perception. Perceptual representation: a rejoinder to insight
8. Cognitive inference. Mental representations
9. Theory of Mind (ToM)
10. Solving problems in physics and mathematics
11. Summary and conclusions.