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CSLI Talk


		       COLLOQUIUM ANNOUNCEMENT
			     Sponsored by
	 The Center for the Study of Language and Information
				 and
		     The Department of Psychology

Speaker: Keith Stenning 
         Human Communications Research Centre,
         Edinburgh University

Title:   "One thing at a time! 
          Working memory and human reasoning style"

Time:    Wednesday, August 23, 1989
         3:30 PM

Place:   Conference Room
         Cordura Hall

			       ABSTRACT

Psychologists have generally taken questions about the relation
between classical logic and human reasoning to be questions whether
the logic of two systems is the same. An alternative is that
`externalised' classical calculi and `internalised' human reasoning
practices are different implementations of the same logical system.

This talk briefly describes an account of working memory for models
(Stenning Shepherd & Levy 1988, Stenning & Levy 1988) and explores its
implications the style of human syllogistic reasoning (see eg.
Johnson-Laird 1983).

References:

Johnson-Laird, P. N. (1983) Mental Models,  CUP

Stenning, K. and J. Levy (1988) `Knowledge-rich solutions to the
binding problem: a simulation of some human computational mechanisms',
Knowledge Based Systems, 1(3), pps. 143-152

Stenning, K., M. Shepherd and J. Levy (1988) `On the construction of
representations for individuals from descriptions in text', Language
and Cognitive Processes, 3(3), pps. 129-164