Cognitive Science

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8 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Cognitive Science.

• ACT-R — A cognitive architecture that explains and predicts human task behavior by coordinating specialized modules through limited-capacity buffers and production rules over declarative chunks.
• Categorical perception — A perceptual phenomenon in which continuous stimulus variation is experienced or discriminated as discrete categories, with enhanced sensitivity near category boundaries.
• Cohort Model — Recognize a spoken word incrementally by activating lexical candidates compatible with its onset, continuously selecting against mismatching competitors as acoustic evidence arrives, and integrating the surviving lexical interpretation with higher-level context.
• Conceptual system — An organized network of concepts and relations through which a person or community represents and interprets a domain.
• Depth Perception — Recover egocentric distance, depth order, and three-dimensional scene layout from two-dimensional retinal projections by exploiting binocular disparity, motion, occlusion, perspective, texture, oculomotor state, and their reliability-sensitive combination.
• False Consensus Effect — Agents overestimate how widely their own beliefs and behaviors are shared, projecting a self-anchored prior across a non-randomly sampled population.
• Theory of Indispensable Attributes — Identify a perceptual modality's indispensable organizational media by testing which attribute collapses perceived numerosity when its separations are removed, then describe how features group elements distributed over those media into phenomenal partitions.
• Visual reasoning — Reach conclusions by constructing, inspecting, and transforming mental or external spatial representations rather than relying only on propositional language.