PPT-The Information-Processing Approach

Outline The nature of the informationprocessing approach Attention Memory Expertise Metacognition 1 The nature of the informationprocessing approach Information memory and thinking Cognitive resources capacity and speed of processing information. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Cavernous_hemangioma_t2.jpg. Does the brain compute?. http://www.cheniere.org/images/rife/rife20.jpg. Does the immune system compute?. Do ant colonies compute? . Andrea Stevenson Crisp,. School Psychologist. Marcia Williams. Parent. Andrea Cronin. Special education resource teacher. Activity . Processing refers to how the brain takes in, uses, learns, reasons, stores, retrieves, and expresses information. . Regina Barzilay. What is NLP?. Goal: intelligent processing of human language. Not just effective string matching. Applications of NLP technology:. Less ambitious (but practical goals): spelling corrections, name entity extraction. A result of several influences. Especially:. Learning theory. S-R; S-. O. -R. Computer science/Information processing. Turing. Intelligent machines. Information theory. Shannon/Bell Labs. Proposes:. A series of processes are performed on environmental information that then affect the behavior of the organism (person). Adrienne . Fuller, MS, CCC-SLP. Getting To Know You…. Who is in the room?. Exposure to Children with Language Disorders?. Learner Outcomes. The Learner Will:. 1. Identify the Difference between Auditory Processing Disorders and Language Processing Disorders.. Robert Jason Grant . Ed.D. , LPC, RPT-S, CAS. www.robertjasongrant.com. Sensory Processing Defined. A person with SPD finds it difficult to process and act upon information received through the senses, which creates challenges in performing countless everyday tasks. Motor clumsiness, behavioral problems, anxiety, depression, and school failure can accompany SPD. . Exploring the Line Between Personal Quirks and Functional Impairments. by Jenny Lujan, OTR. Definition of Sensory Processing. Sensory processing refers to the ability to take information from our senses (touch, movement, smell, taste, vision, and hearing) and put it together with prior information, memories, and knowledge stored in the brain to make a meaningful response. . Andrea Stevenson Crisp,. School Psychologist. Marcia Williams. Parent. Andrea Cronin. Special education resource teacher. Activity . Processing refers to how the brain takes in, uses, learns, reasons, stores, retrieves, and expresses information. . Jay McClelland. Stanford University. January 21, 2014. Early Computational Models of Human Cognition (1950-1980). The digital computer instantiates a ‘physical symbol system’. Simon announces that he and Allan Newell have programmed a computer to ‘think’.. Language Processing . and. Auditory Processing. What is processing?. The ability to interpret or attach meaning to auditorily received information, to then formulate an expressive response.. People with processing disorders have normal intelligence and normal hearing acuity.. This new graduate level textbook, Cognition and Acquired Language Disorders: An Information Processing Approach, addresses the cognitive aspects of language and communication. It assembles the most recent information on this topic, addressing normal cognitive processing for language in adults, the cognitive impairments underlying language disorders arising from a variety of neurologic conditions, and current assessment and treatment strategies for the management of these disorders. The text is organized using an information processing approach to acquired language disorders, and thus can be set apart from texts that rely upon a more traditional, syndrome-based approach (e.g., stroke, dementia, and traumatic brain injury). This approach facilitates the description and treatment of acquired language disorders across many neurologic groups when particular cognitive deficits are identified. Other useful features of the text include assessment and treatment protocols that are based on current evidence. These protocols provide students and clinicians a ready clinical resource for managing language disorders due to deficits in attention, memory, linguistic operations, and executive functions.Unique process-oriented approach organizes content by cognitive processes instead of by syndromes so you can apply the information and treatment approaches to any one of many neurologic groups with the same cognitive deficit.Cognitive domains are described as they relate to communication rather than separated as they are in many other publications where they are treated as independent behaviors.A separate section on normal processing includes five chapters providing a strong foundation for understanding the factors that contribute to disordered communication and its management.The evidence-based approach promotes best practices for the most effective management of patients with cognitive-communication disorders.Coverage of the cognitive aspects of communication helps you meet the standards for certification in speech-language pathology.A strong author team includes two lead authors who are well known and highly respected in the academic community, along with expert contributors, ensuring a comprehensive, advanced clinical text/reference. Timelike. Curves. Todd A. Brun (USC) . Collaborators: Jim Harrington, Mark . M. . Wilde, Andreas Winter. Closed timelike curves. Closed timelike curves (CTCs) are spacetime objects allowed by the theory of general relativity (although perhaps not by a complete theory of quantum gravity).. Data. Term Data may be defined as any collection of raw facts and figures.. For example:. Surveyors of newspaper companies visit door to door to collect data about the type and number of news papers being read by different families. These unprocessed facts do not convey any meaning to the newspaper company, but they can be used as a base for many conclusions after arranging them in order.. Chapter 1. Elnaz . Kordabadi. Summary. - Social scientists study . human behavior. , especially interactions with . media messages . (TV, computers, etc.).. - Research methods include . content analysis.