Mind Matters

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Contents: Preface. J.E. Laird, P.S. Rosenbloom, The Evolution of the Soar Cognitive Architecture. Z.N. Pylyshyn, The Study of Cognitive Architecture. R.L. Lewis, Discussion. Architecture Matters: What Soar Has to Say About Modularity. T.M. Mitchell, S.B. Thrun, Learning Analytically and Inductively. P.S. Rosenbloom, Discussion. Learning Matters. G.A. Miller, Meaning Matters: Problems in Sense Resolution. J.F. Lehman, Discussion. Meaning Matters: Response to Miller. M.A. Just, P.A. Carpenter, D.D. Hemphill, Constraints on Processing Capacity: Architectural or Implementational? R.M. Young, Discussion. Functionality Matters: Capacity Constraints and Soar. G. Bell, Great and Big Ideas in Computer Structures. M. Tambe, Discussion. Parallelism Matters. M. Shaw, Software Architectures for Shared Information Systems. D.M. Steier, Discussion. Mediating Matters: Response to Shaw. S.K. Card, The Human, the Computer, the Task, and Their Interaction -- Analytic Models and Use-Centered Design. B.E. John, Discussion. Task Matters. D. Klahr, Scientific Discovery Processes in Children, Adults, and Machines. T. Simon, Discussion. Development Matters. P.N. Johnson-Laird, The Process of Deduction. T. Polk, Discussion. Reasoning Matters: Mental Models and Soar. H.A. Simon, The Patterned Matter That Is Mind.