title: What do computer models of cognition explain: a reply to Gobet.
abstract: The differences between Gobet's views and ours call attention to some points concerning the argumentative status of computational models. If we have two fundamentally different models which reasonably accurately simulate a phenomenon, we must ask, what is the argumentative status of the models in psychological terms. Moreover, if it is possible to present different models of same phenomena, what is the general argumentative power of models in psychology? As the kind of differences between our views and the ones of Gobet's are common in modelling, we briefly call attention to these foundational issues in our paper.
authors.affiliation: Cognitive Science, University of Helsinki, Finland.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Saariluoma
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Laine
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D019336:Cognitive Science; D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008568:Memory; D010465:Perception