Introduction to Cognitive Psychology - Department of Psychological ...

Professor Greg Francis 1/2/13Schemas / scriptsSchemas / scriptsCognitive devices describe stereotypical properties of a situation e.g., restaurant scene involves table, waiter, drinks, tips,…Giving computers the general knowledge oflife needed to create something like schemasis very difficultFill-in the missing information that is critical forunderstanding language (and events in general) explains why it is difficult to communicate across cultures,even with a common languageThis is why computers do not carry onconversations with youLots of work going on in artificial intelligence toSchemas provide the context to remove the almostaddress this problemconstant ambiguities of languagePurdue UniversityPurdue UniversityConclusionsNext timeUnderstanding languageParsingPhrase trees (in reverse)SpeechPhonemesArticulation / coarticulationAmbiguitiesComputer generated interpretationsMissing information / schemasWhy do we say razzle-dazzle instead ofdazzle-razzel?Purdue UniversityPurdue UniversityPSY 200: Intro. to Cognitive Psychology 6