TY - JOUR
T1 - Manifesto for a new (computational) cognitive revolution
AU - Griffiths, Thomas L.
N1 - Funding Information:
Preparation of this paper was supported in part by Grant No. SMA-1228541 from the United States National Science Foundation . I thank Nick Chater, Tania Lombrozo, and the participants in the Data on the Mind workshop for helping to shape these ideas.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2015/2/1
Y1 - 2015/2/1
N2 - The cognitive revolution offered an alternative to merely analyzing human behavior, using the notion of computation to rigorously express hypotheses about the mind. Computation also gives us new tools for testing these hypotheses - large behavioral databases generated by human interactions with computers and with one another. This kind of data is typically analyzed by computer scientists, who focus on predicting people's behavior based on their history. A new cognitive revolution is needed, demonstrating the value of minds as intervening variables in these analyses and using the results to evaluate models of human cognition.
AB - The cognitive revolution offered an alternative to merely analyzing human behavior, using the notion of computation to rigorously express hypotheses about the mind. Computation also gives us new tools for testing these hypotheses - large behavioral databases generated by human interactions with computers and with one another. This kind of data is typically analyzed by computer scientists, who focus on predicting people's behavior based on their history. A new cognitive revolution is needed, demonstrating the value of minds as intervening variables in these analyses and using the results to evaluate models of human cognition.
KW - Big data
KW - Computational modeling
KW - Crowdsourcing
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cognition.2014.11.026
DO - 10.1016/j.cognition.2014.11.026
M3 - Article
C2 - 25497482
AN - SCOPUS:84919935396
SN - 0010-0277
VL - 135
SP - 21
EP - 23
JO - Cognition
JF - Cognition
ER -