375: The Cognitive Approach

1. The Cognitive Approach
1. “The mind is what the brain does”
1. Computational view of the mind & brain relationship
2. Mental Modules
1. organs
2. programmed by genes, shaped by evolution
3. The mind is organized into these modules
4. The Point
1. You think in stages of information processing
2. Stages
1. First: Speech Interpretation
2. Second: Interpretation of the Question
3. Third: Find the Answer in Memory
4. Fourth: Make Decision to Answer or Not
5. Fifth: Phrase the Answer
6. Sixth: Create Motor Commands to lips, tongue, etc.
3. Each Module/Stage is independent of the others
1. Stages communicate with one another, but one stage doesn’t know what the other is doing