Computation vs. Information Processing: Why Their Difference Matters to Cognitive Science
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Computation vs. information processing: why their difference matters to cognitive science
0039-3681/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.shpsa.2010.07.012 E-mail addresses: [email protected] (G. Pic Since the cognitive revolution, it has become commonplace that cognition involves both computation and information processing. Is this one claim or two? Is computation the same as information processing? The two terms are often used interchangeably, but this usag...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: SSRN Electronic Journal
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1556-5068
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1596330