The cognitive revolution (pre-view)

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The ``cognitive revolution'' arose in the USA in the 1950s as revolt against behaviourism.

Classical symbol-processing view - cognition as:
Problem-solving (Alan Newell and Herbert Simon)
Memory retrieval (eg. Language - Roger Schank)
Connectionist view:
Low-level neuron-like computation (Michael Arbib)
Philosophical aspects of the connectionism debate are not done in this Course. For neural networks see secs. and .