DEEP LEARNING

Although the ability to retain, process, and project prior experience onto future situations is indispensable, the human mind also p ossesses the ability to override experience and adapt to changing circumstances. Cognitive scientist Stellan Ohlsson analyzes three types of deep, non-monotonic cognitive change: creative insight, adaptation of cognitive skills by learning from errors, and convers ion from one belief to another, incompatible belief. For each topic, Ohlsson summarizes past research, re-formulates the relevant re search qu...[Read more]