Anatomy of the Mind

This book aims to understand human cognition and psychology through a comprehensive computational theory of the human mind namely a computational cognitive architecture (or more specifically the Clarion cognitive architecture). The goal of this work is to develop a unified framework for understanding the human mind and within the unified framework to develop process-based mechanistic explanations of a large variety of psychological phenomena. <p/>Specifically the book first describes the essential Clarion framework and its cognitive-psychological justifications then its computational instantiations and finally its applications to capturing simulating and explaining various psychological phenomena and empirical data. The book shows how the models and simulations shed light on psychological mechanisms and processes through the lens of a unified framework. <p/>In fields ranging from cognitive science to psychology to artificial intelligence and even to philosophy researchers graduate and undergraduate students and practitioners of various kinds may have interest in topics covered by this book. The book may also be suitable for seminars or courses at graduate or undergraduate levels on cognitive architectures or cognitive modeling (i.e. computational psychology).<br>