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Computational cognition
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<p>Computational cognition (sometimes referred to as computational cognitive science or computational psychology or cognitive simulation) is the study of the <a href="/facts/Computation/qLsELosq">computational</a> basis of <a href="/facts/Education/WIwsQKF9">learning</a> and <a href="/facts/Inference/RBbe95bP">inference</a> by <a href="/facts/Mathematical_model/CGhyuxgz">mathematical modeling</a>, <a href="/facts/Computer_simulation/Re6o8vzN">computer simulation</a>, and <a href="/facts/Behaviorism/8DHljqrh">behavioral</a> experiments. In psychology, it is an approach which develops computational models based on experimental results. It seeks to understand the basis behind the human method of <a href="/facts/Information_processing_(psychology)/cbNEeq06">processing of information</a>. Early on computational cognitive scientists sought to bring back and create a scientific form of <a href="/facts/Franz_Brentano/XQRFJvMd">Brentano's</a> psychology. </p>