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Cognitive science has emerged as a new discipline of knowledge that deals with the mental aspects of the human beings. The chapter attempts to explain the psychological processes involved in human reasoning, learning, understanding, and planning. It elucidated various models of human memory and representation of imagery and cognitive maps on memory. The mechanism of understanding a complex problem is also presented here with special reference to the focus of attention in the problem.
Human beings usually perform a complex task by activating various distributed modules of their brain. The chapter takes a preparatory attempt to model distributed processes involved in human reasoning, learning, planning, etc. by a specialized distributed model similar with Petri nets. It ends with a discussion on the elementary properties of classical Petri nets and suggests the necessary extensions as required to model the brain processes.
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(2005). The Psychological Basis of Cognitive Modeling. In: Cognitive Engineering. Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-84628-234-9_1
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