COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

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Cognitive Psychology

In the video below, Rui Mata explains the path from computers to minds and brains. He connects the insights of cognitive psychology to a conference that triggered a lot of new research in the field.

The advent of information theory and the computer gave psychologists a new way of thinking about how knowledge can be represented and, thus, studied and quantified. A new perspective emerged that brought the mind back into psychology.

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University of Basel