Problem Solving: Cognitive Mechanisms and Formal Models
Author:   Zygmunt Pizlo (University of California, Irvine)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Edition:   New edition
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9781009205566


Pages:   250
Publication Date:   07 July 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Zygmunt Pizlo (University of California, Irvine)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 18.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 26.20cm
Weight:   0.570kg
ISBN:  

9781009205566


ISBN 10:   1009205560
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   07 July 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preface; 1. Problem solving – definition of the main concepts; 2. Animal problem solving: innovative use of tools; 3. Modern research on the human's ability to solve problems that have large spaces; 4. The exponential pyramid representation that compensates for the exponentially-large problem spaces; 5. Heuristic function, distance and direction in solving problems; 6. Insight and creative thinking; 7. Inference in perception. Perceptual representation: a rejoinder to insight; 8. Cognitive inference. Mental representations; 9. Theory of Mind (ToM); 10. Solving problems in physics and mathematics; 11. Summary and conclusions.

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Zygmunt Pizlo is Professor and Falmagne Endowed Chair in Mathematical Psychology in the Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California at Irvine. He is the author of 3D Shape: Its Unique Place in Visual Perception (2008) and co-author of Making a Machine That Sees Like Us (2014).

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