ABSTRACT
The chapter provides an overview of the last thirty years’ research in cognitive psychology with special reference to the representation of sensory information on the human mind. The interaction of visual, auditory and linguistic information in memory for understanding instances of the real world scenario has been elucidated in detail. The construction of mental imagery from the visual scenes and interpretation of the unknown scenes with such imagery have also been presented in this chapter. Neuro-physiological evidences to support behavioral models of cognition have been provided throughout the chapter. The chapter ends with a discussion on a new ‘model of cognition’ that mimics the different mental states and their inter-relationship through reasoning and automated machine learning. The scope of AI in building the proposed model of cognition has also been briefly outlined.
