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Coltheart, Max; Tree, Jeremy J.; Saunders, Steven J. – Psychological Review, 2010
The current authors reply to a response by Woollams, Lambon Ralph, Plaut, and Patterson on a comment by the current authors on the original article. The current authors list their agreements and disagreements with Woollams, Lambon Ralph, Plaut, and Patterson's response on the topics of the human reading system, cognitive architecture, experimental…
Descriptors: Dementia, Semantics, Cognitive Science, Neurological Organization
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Woollams, Anna M.; Lambon Ralph, Matthew A.; Plaut, David C.; Patterson, Karalyn – Psychological Review, 2010
The current authors reply to a postscript by Coltheart, Tree, and Saunders which was in response to the current authors response on a comment by the current authors on the original article. The current authors begin by responding to the final challenge posed by Coltheart, Tree, and Saunders (2010). They believe that both experimental and…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Brain, Cognitive Processes, Simulation
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Overskeid, Geir – Psychological Record, 2005
The many authors debating whether computers can understand often fail to clarify what understanding is, and no agreement exists on this important issue. In his Chinese room argument, Searle (1980) claims that computers running formal programs can never understand. I discuss Searle's claim based on a definition of understanding that is empirical,…
Descriptors: Brain, Experimental Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, Comprehension