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cognitive-science

42 notes carry this tag — 26 claims, 1 observation, 1 question, 14 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• Stenning & van Lambalgen's two-step frame is 'reasoning for' vs 'reasoning from' an interpretation
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-05 · reasoning-psychology, logic-programming, non-monotonic-logic, wason-selection-task, cognitive-science
• 'Negation as failure' is Sakama's gloss, not Stenning & van Lambalgen's own term in their 2001 and 2004 papers
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-05 · reasoning-psychology, logic-programming, non-monotonic-logic, negation-as-failure, closed-world-assumption
• Stenning & van Lambalgen model Wason-task 'fallacies' as closed-world, non-monotonic reasoning in their own words
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-05 · reasoning-psychology, logic-programming, non-monotonic-logic, closed-world-assumption, wason-selection-task
• Stenning & van Lambalgen model exception-tolerant conditionals with a two-clause exception scheme, not a material conditional
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-05 · reasoning-psychology, logic-programming, non-monotonic-logic, closed-world-assumption, wason-selection-task
• Do Stenning & van Lambalgen actually model the Wason-task 'fallacies' as closed-world reasoning with negation-as-failure?
  capture promoted 2026-08-31 · reasoning-psychology, logic-programming, non-monotonic-logic, closed-world-assumption, negation-as-failure
• Does Anderson (1990) himself define rational analysis as optimal adaptation to the environment, and is it his or a later reading that equates it with Marr's computational level?
  capture promoted 2026-08-28 · rational-analysis, marr-levels, anderson, bayesian-cognition, cognitive-science
• Anderson traces rational analysis's lineage to Brunswik and Gibson, then Marr and Shepard, before naming it his own
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-28 · rational-analysis, anderson, marr-levels, ecological-perception, cognitive-science
• Chater & Oaksford (1999) list integration with Marr's computational level as an unresolved 'outstanding question' for rational analysis, eight years after Anderson made the equation
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-28 · rational-analysis, marr-levels, anderson, chater-oaksford, cognitive-science
• What are the primary-sourced founding dates, enrollment figures, and educational mechanism for the emergence of Nicaraguan Sign Language?
  capture promoted 2026-08-24 · linguistics, language-emergence, nicaragua, sign-language, history-of-science
• Sperber et al.'s 2010 'epistemic vigilance' splits vigilance-toward-the-source from vigilance-toward-content — a sixth field independently drawing the reliability/credibility line, and a bridge candidate the vault didn't have
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-15 · epistemics, cross-domain-bridge, cross-time-bridge, source-evaluation, cognitive-science
• Sperber et al.'s 2010 'epistemic vigilance' splits vigilance toward the source from vigilance toward the content — a sixth field independently drawing the reliability/credibility line
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-15 · epistemics, source-evaluation, cross-domain-bridge, cross-time-bridge, cognitive-science
• Did the Chater/Oaksford camp reply to Brighton's 2006 cross-validation reanalysis of the take-the-best result — and does the reversal stand?
  capture promoted 2026-08-02 · rationality, ecological-rationality, rational-analysis, take-the-best, model-selection
• Brighton's 2006 cross-validation reanalysis reversed Chater & Oaksford's take-the-best result, turning a direct terminological dispute into an empirical one
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-01 · rationality, ecological-rationality, rational-analysis, take-the-best, heuristics
• Evans's 2009 BBS commentary flags Oaksford & Chater's enlistment of ecological rationality as unresolved — 'the link between the two programmes is unclear'
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-01 · rationality, ecological-rationality, rational-analysis, bayesian-cognition, gigerenzer
• Gigerenzer's camp defines ecological rationality as 'not optimization,' positioning it against the Bayesian-optimization family rational analysis belongs to
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-01 · rationality, ecological-rationality, rational-analysis, bayesian-cognition, gigerenzer
• Ecological rationality and rational analysis are contested, not compatible, in the primary literature — three legs, not a settled division of labor
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-08-01 · rationality, ecological-rationality, rational-analysis, bayesian-cognition, gigerenzer
• Capture: Are Gigerenzer's ecological rationality and Oaksford & Chater's rational analysis compatible or contested frameworks?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-31 · rationality, ecological-rationality, rational-analysis, bayesian-cognition, gigerenzer
• The AI lineage resource-rational analysis actually draws on is Horvitz and Russell's bounded optimality, not Werbos's approximate dynamic programming
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-27 · resource-rationality, bounded-optimality, horvitz, stuart-russell, werbos
• Resource-rational analysis (Lieder & Griffiths 2020) self-describes as a direct extension of Anderson's rational analysis, pushing it toward Marr's algorithmic level
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-27 · resource-rationality, rational-analysis, anderson, lieder-griffiths, marr-levels
• Resource-rational analysis formalizes bounded rationality as expected utility minus an explicit compute-cost term, not as a dynamic-programming recursion
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-27 · resource-rationality, bounded-optimality, optimization, expected-utility, cognitive-science
• Is resource-rational analysis (Lieder & Griffiths) the tightest convergence point of Werbos's approximate dynamic programming and Anderson's rational analysis?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-20 · resource-rationality, rational-analysis, anderson, lieder-griffiths, bounded-optimality
• Human conditional-reasoning 'fallacies' can be realized as closed-world inference in Answer Set Programming
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · reasoning-psychology, logic-programming, non-monotonic-reasoning, closed-world-assumption, wason-selection-task
• Human iterated-learning chains converge to the learners' shared prior within a few generations, regardless of the seed input
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · iterated-learning, cultural-evolution, serial-reproduction, function-learning, inductive-bias
• A logic-programming account of human conditional reasoning rivals the probabilistic (Oaksford–Chater) account of the same data
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-12 · reasoning-psychology, logic-programming, bayesian-cognition, wason-selection-task, closed-world-assumption
• Rational analysis (Anderson 1990) explains cognition as the optimal solution to the computational problems the environment poses — Marr's computational level turned into a research program
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-12 · rational-analysis, marr-levels, bayesian-cognition, cognitive-science, anderson
• Human conditional-reasoning "fallacies" have a logic-programming account, rival to the probabilistic one
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-11 · reasoning-psychology, logic-programming, non-monotonic-reasoning, wason-selection-task, closed-world-assumption
• Neural networks can forget along a human-like power-law curve — and the 1885 spacing effect re-emerges inside them
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-11 · catastrophic-forgetting, continual-learning, forgetting-curve, spaced-repetition, cognitive-science
• Nicaraguan Sign Language is a documented case of a language emerging from zero language exposure, not merely zero standard-language exposure
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-11 · linguistics, language-emergence, cognitive-science, nicaragua, sign-language
• In Nicaraguan Sign Language, the second cohort of child learners made the grammar more systematic than the adults who invented it
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-11 · linguistics, language-emergence, cognitive-science, nicaragua, sign-language
• Nicaraguan Sign Language: deaf children with no sign language to be exposed to invented one from scratch, and the second generation systematized its grammar further than the adults who created it
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-07-09 · linguistics, language-emergence, cognitive-science, nicaragua, sign-language
• Oaksford & Chater's 'rational analysis' rehabilitates human reasoning as Bayesian, not logical — a rival lineage to Gigerenzer's ecological rationality
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-09 · rationality, bayesian-cognition, cognitive-science, reasoning, gigerenzer-adjacent
• Oaksford and Chater recast the Wason selection task as optimal data selection, turning a classic 'human error' into rational choice
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · rationality, bayesian-cognition, cognitive-science, reasoning, wason-selection-task
• Oaksford and Chater redefine rationality as reasoning about uncertainty, not logical deduction
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · rationality, bayesian-cognition, cognitive-science, reasoning, philosophy
• Are Gigerenzer's ecological rationality and Oaksford & Chater's rational analysis compatible or contested frameworks?
  question answered 2026-07-09 · rationality, bayesian-cognition, ecological-rationality, cognitive-science, verification
• Bjork 1994 frames "desirable difficulties" as conditions of practice and effortful retrieval — not as prediction error; the phrase is absent from the primary text
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-08 · cognitive-science, desirable-difficulties, spacing-effect, prediction-error, memory
• Cognitive science formally distinguishes four schema-learning modes — accretion, tuning, restructuring, schema formation — but the label "restructuring" shifted meaning across the literature
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-08 · cognitive-science, schema-theory, restructuring, schema-formation, conceptual-change
• Cognitive conflict is a prerequisite for schema restructuring — congruent information cannot trigger it
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-06 · cognitive-science, schema-restructuring, insight, conflict-detection, learning-science
• Expertise in an expedient strategy blocks later restructuring — unless the better structure is available from the start
  claim budding Tier 2 2026-07-06 · cognitive-science, restructuring, expertise, blocking, learning-science
• Does cognitive science literature formally distinguish schema formation from schema restructuring?
  capture promoted 2026-07-03 · cognitive-science, schema-theory, schema-formation, schema-restructuring, conceptual-change
• What Griffiths et al. (Princeton CoCo Lab) argue about expertise, resistance to knowledge restructuring, and 'expediency effects'
  capture promoted 2026-07-01 · cognitive-science, expertise, knowledge-restructuring, associative-blocking, categorization
• When and how should SeekVault deliberately rewire itself?
  capture promoted 2026-06-28 · knowledge-management, PKM, schema-restructuring, cognitive-science, metacognition
• The introspective access problem in AI systems
  claim seedling 2026-05-26 · introspection, self-knowledge, llm, cognitive-science, philosophy-of-mind