An Overview of Structural Information Processing Models in the Cognitive Domain

Abstract

The cognitive models of information processing represent a multidisciplinary phenomenon with potentially great practical application. They are of great importance for improving the process of education, training, ergonomics, design of man - machine interface, robotics, as well as for other scientific disciplines. In this paper, different structural models of information processing which are often cited are topic of consideration. Structural validity of Smith's model, as well as the validity of some other information processing models has been analyzed. As a result, it has been concluded that almost without exception these models have a certain disadvantage. Main disadvantages reflect in the absence of certain structural components, their positions in the models, as well as in the flow of information between components. This indicates the need for further work in this area, with the aim of creating a model of information processing that would be able to provide answers to certain questions and problems that people of different specialty have in practice.