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Area A: Modelling |
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Project Area A deals with modeling issues. This perspective
encompasses tasks and issues in which the the natural cognitive system
- i.e., the human mental system - takes on the function of a prototype
that is to be modeled. This modeling requires knowledge of naturally
occurring phenomena; the projects in this area are accordingly more
empirically oriented than those of the other two project areas.
Modeling is always done with a view to a particular goal. Within this
project area, different goals are being pursued. In part, the goal of
modeling is to represent and analyze the processes that may underlie
empirically observable phenomena. This goal is in the foreground in
the projects "Influence of Rationality Limits on Processes of Language
Processing" (Prof. Kuno Lorenz) and "Verbal and Visual Working Memory"
(Prof. Johannes Engelkamp, Dr. Hubert Zimmer). Another goal is to
reconstruct the results of a successful modeling of the first type and
to incorporate them in artificial systems. The basic idea here is that
certain forms of adaptivity have evolved in humans and that adequate
models of the basic mechanisms can help us to realize anologous
resource-adaptivity in artificial systems. This approach is
represented by the project "Interaction of Object Localization and
Language Production" (Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster).
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