为什么进行计算认知科学研究？

Social science theories about how people and environments change each other are mostly stated in words. Verbal statements leave open the quantities and functional forms needed to derive outcomes. Tests of association cannot distinguish the individual rules that could have produced an association, and causal structures established separately are rarely combined. Computational cognitive science offers a remedy: it specifies theories as rules that generate individual judgment and choice, runs the rules, and checks before data collection whether rival rules can be distinguished. Cognitive agent mo