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title: "Deductive Modeling of Human Cognition"
authors:
  - "Göran Hagert"
  - "Sten-Åke Tärnlund"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/37"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/0037.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1981
pages: "178-182"
track: "Cognitive Science"
keywords:
---

# Deductive Modeling of Human Cognition

Göran Hagert, Sten-Åke Tärnlund

*Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 178-182.

## Abstract

Deductive analysis (DA) is Presented as an aR'roach to the sttrly and simulation of human cognitive processes. M is CXll'!p)Sed of a psychological theory and a lll:!thodology that can sheed light on mental phenomenas. The cognitive theorv is ent>edded in the problem space aoo the control structure hypotheses. The methodology consists of logical derivatioos of ~ter m:X!els from an abstract specificatioo. 'I1le item-recognitioo task and the three-term series task are analyzed for p.Jrpose of illustratioo. Several aspects of human oognitioo in these environments are discussed. It is argued that M brings new notioos to the sttrly of human cognitioo, for instance, to design sets of m:X!els an~ to distinguish between empirically equivalent nrrlels.