On Thursday 04 October 2007 05:19:29 pm, Edward W. Porter wrote: > I have no idea how new the idea is. When Schank was talking about scripts ...
From the MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (p729): "Schemata are the psychological constructs that are postulated to account for the molar forms of human generic knowledge. The term *frames*, as introduced by Marvin Minsky (1975) is essentially synonymous, except that Minsky used frame as both a psychological construct and a construct in artificial intelligence. *Scripts* are the subclass of schemata that are used to account for generic (stereotyped) sequences of actions (Schank and Abelson 1977)." Read on to find that Minsky, having read the work of a 1930s British psychologist Bartlett in the 30s which had languished in obscurity in the meantime, did reintroduce the concept to cog sci in the mid 70s with his frame paper. Josh ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=50702864-107b56
