Deep Learning: How the Mind Overrides Experience by Ohlsson, Stellan - 2011

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xiii, 523pp. Mild creasing, rubbing, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in blue cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Although the ability to retain, process, and project prior experience onto future situations is indispensable, the human mind also possesses the ability to override experience and adapt to changing circumstances. Cognitive scientist Stellan Ohlsson analyzes three types of deep, non-monotonic cognitive change: creative insight, adaptation of cognitive skills by learning from errors, and conversion from one belief to another, incompatible belief. For each topic, Ohlsson summarizes past research, re-formulates the relevant research questions, and proposes information-processing mechanisms that answer those questions. The three theories are based on the principles of… Read More

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 1st edition, large 8vo, 523pp, VG+/Fine Copy in VG+/Fine DJ. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardback. New. The human mind possesses the ability to override experience and adapt to changing circumstances. Cognitive scientist Stellan Ohlsson analyzes three types of deep, non-monotonic cognitive change: creative insight, adaptation of cognitive skills by learning from errors, and conversion from one belief to another.