Cognitive model

A cognitive model is an approximation to animal cognitive processes (predominantly human) for the purposes of comprehension and prediction. Cognitive models can be developed within or without a cognitive architecture, though the two are not always easily distinguishable.

History

Earlier diagrams

Diagram of the Relation of Human and Cosmic Phenomena. 9th century
Diagram illustrating the relationship of the Planets to the Brain, 1159-75
Head, showing cells of brain ventricles, c. 1347
Circles on either side of the head illustrate the four supposed ventricles of the brain, 14th c.
The brain, and ways of excretion of humours, c. 1428
The Ventricles, from 1489 to 1503
Diagram showing the Ventricles of the Brain, 1496

16th century

nl:Jan van Doesborch (1470/80–1536)
Study of the skull metallic point paper by Leonardo da Vinci, 1510
Margarita philosophica nova cui insunt sequentia by Gregor Reisch, 1512
Congestorium artificiose by Johann Romberch, 1533
Andreas Vesalius' famous De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, published in 1543

17th century

Robert Fludd (1574 – 1637)
René Descartes (1596-1650)
René Descartes (1596-1650)
Diagram of ventricles of brain by Descartes

18th century

"Astonishment" from Le Brun, ca 1720
"Fear" from Le Brun, Characters des passions, circa 1720.
"Horror" from Le Brun, ca. 1720
"Sadness" from Le Brun, Characters des passions, circa 1720.
Characters and Caricaturas by William Hogarth, 1743

19th century

Phrenology

Explanation of the new physiognomical system of the brain, 1818
Symbolical head, After O.S. Fowler, c.1845
Gustav Scheve, Phrenologische Bilder, 1852-55
Phrenological organs, 1887

Other works

Ernst Mach's Antimetaphysische Vorbemerkungen, 1886

20th century

Philosophy of mind diagrams

Turing Test, proposed by Alan Turing, 1936
Type physicalism, proposed by John Smart and Ullin Place in the 1950s
Multiple realizability, proposed by Hilary Putnam in the 1960s
Brain in a vat, proposed by Hilary Putnam (1981)
Cartesian theater, proposed by Daniel Dennett (1990)

Diagrams of cognitive models

Filter Model by Donald Broadbent, 1958-2012
Baddeley's model of working memory, 1974
Baddeley and Hitch's working memory model, 1974
The MARS diagram, 1979
Baddeley working memory, 1986
Graphical representation of Flower & Hayes' 1981 model of the cognitive processes involved in writing
PRS Agent Architecture based on diagram from Georgeff and Ingrand, 1989;
Model of human information processing after Sanders and McCormick, 1991

21st century

Philosophy of mind, diagrams

Neural Correlates of Consciousness, Christof Koch (2004)
Eight types of consciousness, 2016

Diagrams of cognitive models

Categories in the cognitive domain of the revised Bloom's taxonomy (Anderson et al. 2000)
Fundamental structure of a 4D/RCS control loop, 2002.
4D-RCS Five levels of the architecture for Demo III, 2002
Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning, (Mayer, 2005)
Left and Right Brain, (Webber, 2007)
Cognitive Thought Model (Instructional Design), 2009
IDA Cognitive Architecture, (Graeme E. Smith 2009)
Schematic memory, 2009
abstract and symbolic representation of the term "Bewusstseinsoekologie", 2010
Modal model of the mind, 2010
Different forms of Awareness, (Carlo Monsanto, 2011)
Memory functions, (Bernhard Wenzl, 2011)
ADDIE Model of Design, 2012