Knowledge and Cognition

First Published in 1974. This volume is a collection of the papers presented at the Ninth Annual Symposium on Cognition, held at Carnegie-Mellon University in May 1973. The subject of the symposium was knowledge, or rather its internal representation in human memory, or in computer systems. Of all the recent symposia in this series, this one represents a meeting of the minds, in that all of the participants were strongly oriented toward information processing theories of cognition.

Lee W. Gregg Carnegie-Mellon University

PREFACE, 1. PERCEPTUAL STRUCTURES AND SEMANTIC RELATIONS, 2. PROCESSES OF LEARNING AND COMPREHENSION, 3. SUBJECTIVE PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS FOR IMPERFECTLY KNOWN QUANTITIES, 4. THEORY OF RULE INDUCTION: KNOWLEDGE ACQUIRED IN CONCEPT LEARNING, SERIAL PATTERN LEARNING, AND PROBLEM SOLVING, 5. PROBLEM SOLVING AND RULE INDUCTION: A UNIFIED VIEW, 6. QUOTE THE RAVEN? NEVERMORE!, 7. KNOWLEDGE AND THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS, 8. UNDERSTANDING WRITTEN PROBLEM INSTRUCTIONS, 9. HOW CAN MERLIN UNDERSTAND?, 10. KNOWLEDGE AND ITS REPRESENTATION IN A SPEECH UNDERSTANDING SYSTEM, 11. MULTIDIMENSIONAL EVALUATION OF A SIMULATION OF PARANOID THOUGHT PROCESSES, 12. UNDERSTANDING UNDERSTANDING SYSTEMS, REFERENCES, AUTHOR INDEX, SUBJECT INDEX