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Patterns, Thinking and Cognition Author: Howard Margolis

ISBN: 9780226505282 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 344 Published: 17 December 1986 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 23.2 x 15.5 x 2.1 Description: What happens when we think? How do people make judgments? While different theories abound--and are heatedly debated--most are based on an algorithmic model of how the brain works. Howard Margolis builds a fascinating case for a theory that thinking is based on recognizing patterns and that this process is intrinsically a-logical. Margolis gives a Darwinian account of how pattern recognition evolved to reach human cognitive abilities. Illusions of judgment--standard anomalies where people consistently misjudge or misperceive what is logically implied or really present--are often used in cognitive science to explore the workings of the cognitive process. The explanations given for these anomalous results have generally explained only the anomaly under study and nothing more. Margolis provides a provocative and systematic analysis of these illusions, which explains why such anomalies exist and recur. Offering empirical applications of his theory, Margolis turns to historical cases to show how an individual's cognitive repertoire--the available cognitive patterns and their relation to cues--changes or resists changes over time. Here he focuse...

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