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Barsalou, L. W. (1992). Representation. In _Cognitive Psychology: an
overview for cognitive scientists_ (p. 52-56 only). Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Discussion of representational systems in the mind as understood by
cognitive scientists wherein there is a target domain and a modelling
domain. In the modelling domain only some of the structure of the
target domain is represented: only some of it is relevant. This
discussion is accompanied by an effective rebuttal of critics of
cognitive science whom suggest that cognitive psychologists believe
people are computers. -cjd
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Excellent. I've been waiting for such an article. I'm one of the people
who have worried about cogsci being too mechanistic. This article
helps to clear up some of that fear. In addition it indicates a strong
relationship with traditional (library science based) notions of
organization and representation of knowledge. By extension the model
in the article implies that with training information providers can
present various representations of bodies of knowledge that
effectively emphasize certain structural aspects of the domain in
unexpected ways.
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