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                              SUNY Buffalo
                      Center for Cognitive Science

                                presents

                            CHARLES O. FRAKE

                       Samuel P. Capen Professor
                       Department of Anthropology
                              SUNY Buffalo

                    WHERE DO DIRECTIONS COME FROM?
        FROM INFORMATION PROCESSING TO THE DISPLAY OF KNOWLEDGE
                   IN REAL-WORLD SPATIAL ORIENTATION

Attempts to understand ethnographic and historical data on diverse mari-
time  navigational  systems have uncovered several curious puzzles whose
solution requires attention to some major problems confronting all  stu-
dents  of  human cognition.  These problems concern mental models, their
representations,  technological  embodiments,  ecological  applications,
social  uses,  and  cultural  sources.   A  discussion of these problems
informs the larger issue of identifying the sources  of  uniformity  and
variation in human cognitive systems.  It also makes an argument for the
practicality and utility  (and  enjoyment)  of  investigations  of  non-
artificial intelligence.

                       Thursday, December 7, 1989
                               4:00 P.M.
                      280 Park Hall, Amherst Campus

For further information, contact Erwin Segal, Department of  Psychology,
716-636-3675, segal@cs.buffalo.edu, or William J. Rapaport, Department of
Computer Science, 716-636-3193, rapaport@cs.buffalo.edu