Cognitive Models of Thinking and Reasoning
Naval Research Laboratory, DC, Information Technology
This interdisciplinary research focuses on the development of theoretical and computational cognitive theories of explanatory and deductive reasoning. We use techniques such as computational cognitive modeling, human subjects experimentation, eye-tracking, and protocol analysis to build models of how people reason. We also build interfaces and prototypes to explore computer science ideas advanced by our theoretical frameworks. Our group consists of cognitive psychologists and computer scientists. Its primary goal is to build psychological and computational theories of complex inferential behavior by attempting to scale up current theories to more complex embodied domains. We use what we know about cognition to build better artificial intelligence systems.
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