Human Cognition and Performance.
Abstract
The Cognitive Science Laboratory is a part of both the Institute for Cognitive Science and the Center for Human Information Processing at their University of California, San Diego. Work in the laboratory is aimed at developing a deeper understanding of the theory and applications of human information processing. The research aims of the laboratory are broad, but all the work follows a common theoretical view of cognition, providing a cohesion that binds the separate studies together, despite the apparent wide differences in content. All of the work can be characterized as being Studies of Human Cognition. This is the main focus of the laboratory's efforts, and over the years the work has covered in-depth problems within the areas of preception, attention, learning, memory, language, thought, and action. Special emphasis has been placed on knowledge representation, and one major contribution of the laboratory has been within the area: The representational structure known as Active Structural Networks. Work in this general area is always in process elaborated and modulated by the results and progress of work in the speciality areas. Three specialty areas can be talked about separately. Originator-supplied keywords are: Parallel distributed processing, Skilled human performance, and Human-machine interaction.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1985
- Accession Number
- ADA157665
Entities
People
- D. A. Norman
- D. E. Rumelhart
- D. R. Gentner
Organizations
- University of California, San Diego