Nobel Laureate Herbert A. Simon has in the past quarter century
been in the front line of the information-processing revolution; in
fact, to a remarkable extent his and his colleagues’
contributions have written the history of that revolution in
cognitive psychology. Research in this burgeoning new branch
of knowledge seeks to describe with precision the workings of the
human mind in terms of a small number of basic mechanisms organized
into strategies. Newly developed computer languages express
theories of mental processes, so that computers can then simulate
the predicted human behavior. This book brings together papers
dating from the start of Simon’s career to the present.Â
Its focus is on modeling the chief components of human cognition
and on testing these models experimentally. After
considering basic structural elements of the human
information-processing system (especially search, selective
attention, and storage in memory), Simon builds from these
components a system capable of solving problems, inducing rules and
concepts, perceiving, and understanding. These essays describe a
relatively austere, simple, and unified processing system capable
of highly complex and various tasks. They provide strong
evidence for an explanation of human thinking in terms of basic
information processes.
General
Imprint: |
Yale University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 1979 |
First published: |
December 1979 |
Authors: |
Herbert A. Simon
|
Dimensions: |
235 x 190 x 31mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
524 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-300-02432-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
|
LSN: |
0-300-02432-0 |
Barcode: |
9780300024326 |
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