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Cognitive architectures have limited explanatory power

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2004

Prasad Tadepalli
Prasad Tadepalli*
Affiliation:
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR97331-3202http://www.eecs.orst.edu/~tadepall
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tadepall@cs.orst.edu
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Abstract:

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Cognitive architectures, like programming languages, make commitments only at the implementation level and have limited explanatory power. Their universality implies that it is hard, if not impossible, to justify them in detail from finite quantities of data. It is more fruitful to focus on particular tasks such as language understanding and propose testable theories at the computational and algorithmic levels.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 26 , Issue 5 , October 2003 , pp. 622 - 623
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003