Do you remember learning to read? Perhaps letters on book pages looked like Woodstock’s, Snoopy’s friend, footprints.
Cognition
Squiggles and Letters
Mental Construction
Induction. Neural Operations
Induction proceeds by reducing of detail and repeated experience laying categories until abstracted facts are categorized into the same rule.
Cognition
Biological Stages Tied into Knowledge Categorization
Our immediate experience remains bedrock truth, although sometimes we may chaff at its poor fit to verbal statement.
Mental Construction
Learning Critical Period
Neuro-biological conditions explain the existence of critical periods in the most fundamental skills that we learn in the first decade of our life, understanding sensory information and the use of language.
Associations and Similarities
Associations and Level of Abstraction
Associations refer to mental connections between concepts, events, or mental states. They are a substitution of a stored memory for the current input.
Associations and Similarities
Patterns. Named and Unnamed
Most patterns have labels, names. The words in our language are indicative of the manner in which our linguistic forebearers found it useful to organize the patterns of existence into particular terms
Mental Construction
Mental Construction Terminology Translation
In writing and organizing this web site, I have found that artificial neural networks and cognitive psychology use different terminology for key Mental Construction concepts. Mental Construction. Artificial Neural Networks. Cognitive Psychology The table lists the most important ones to assist the readers from those fields to understanding the ideas developed in Mental Construction. Mental…