Increasingly, many psychologists seek to understand the mind in terms of concepts drawn from computer science and artifical intelligence. This methodologies usually called computational psychology. But, as M. Boden (1988) has characterized : "computational psychology today is rather like a dragon, " many different methods are used in cognitive science research, and several different conceptual approaches have been taken to the field. In this paper, I overview some topics of computational psycology, and point out several theoritical problems.
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