Books

Books : reviews

Allen Newell.
Unified Theories of Cognition.
Harvard University Press. 1990

Allen Newell, a leading researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology, makes the case for unified theories of cognition by setting forth a candidate: Soar, an architecture for general cognition. A pioneer system in artificial intelligence, Soar is the first problem solver to create its own subgoals and learn continuously from its own experience, thus illustrating important characteristics of the human cognitive structure.