Unifying the mind: cognitive representations as graphical models
Choice Reviews Online · 2015
In Unifying the Mind, David Danks aims to equip the advocate of mental representations with a further weapon by developing a unifying framework based on the existence of a common store of representations, structured as graphical models, which underlie a number of cognitive processes.Danks offers two initial motivations for the existence of a unified account, (1) the need to explain the relatively seamless manner in which we seem to shift between distinct cognitive operations, and (2) our ability to attend to goal-relevant information [p.4].