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The Cognitive Process of Comprehension: A Formal Description

The Cognitive Process of Comprehension: A Formal Description

Yingxu Wang, Davrondzhon Gafurov
Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 13
ISBN13: 9781466617438|ISBN10: 1466617438|EISBN13: 9781466617445
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1743-8.ch002
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Wang, Yingxu, and Davrondzhon Gafurov. "The Cognitive Process of Comprehension: A Formal Description." Developments in Natural Intelligence Research and Knowledge Engineering: Advancing Applications, edited by Yingxu Wang, IGI Global, 2012, pp. 25-37. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1743-8.ch002

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Wang, Y. & Gafurov, D. (2012). The Cognitive Process of Comprehension: A Formal Description. In Y. Wang (Ed.), Developments in Natural Intelligence Research and Knowledge Engineering: Advancing Applications (pp. 25-37). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1743-8.ch002

Chicago

Wang, Yingxu, and Davrondzhon Gafurov. "The Cognitive Process of Comprehension: A Formal Description." In Developments in Natural Intelligence Research and Knowledge Engineering: Advancing Applications, edited by Yingxu Wang, 25-37. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1743-8.ch002

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Abstract

Comprehension is an ability to understand the meaning of a concept or an action. Comprehension is an important intelligent power of abstract thought and reasoning of humans or intelligent systems. It is highly curious to explore the internal process of comprehension in the brain and to explain its basic mechanisms in cognitive informatics and computational intelligence. This paper presents a formal model of the cognitive process of comprehension. The mechanism and process of comprehension are systematically explained with its conceptual, mathematical, and process models based on the Layered Reference Model of the Brain (LRMB) and the Object-Attribute-Relation (OAR) model for internal knowledge representation. Contemporary denotational mathematics such as concept algebra and Real-Time Process Algebra (RTPA) are adopted in order to formally describe the comprehension process and its interaction with other cognitive processes of the brain.

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