WORSPACE OF THE COGNITIVE PROCESS AS A SPACE OF MENTAL CONSTRUCTS OF THE COGNITIVE MECHANISM OF THINKING

Abstract

The article is dedicated the workspace of cognitive activities of the individual as a space of mental constructs of the cognitive mechanism of thinking. The relationship between of the mental constructs of cognitive space and the degree of development of cognitive abilities of the individual is studied. Thinking is considered as an unconscious process of constructing a modified model representation. The cognitive mechanism of thinking is represented as a multi-stage process of unconscious construction of the response signal in the form of a model representation of the sensory signal with consideration of information encoded in the cognitive memory space. The workspace of the thought process is considered from the perspective of modern cognitive science on modeling the activity of the neural system in the framework of the concept of neurodynamic organization and functional modes of the cognitive memory space. This approach allows us to understand the relationship between the workspace, mental constructs, the cognitive space of memory and cognitive abilities. The architecture, properties, internal mechanisms, and characteristics of the workspace are discussed. Since the workspace is formed by mental constructs, the analysis of the organization and functioning of internal mechanisms of mental constructs is performed. A dynamic instability of the workspace was found, which is caused by the dynamics of mental constructs. The study of the dynamics of mental spaces is revealed the stages of forming a response by mental constructs to a sensory signal. They can be defined as creating a mental space, creating response signal as the modified model representation, the fading of mental spaces with the display of the generated response in the cognitive memory space. Understanding thinking as a multi-stage process of "unconscious reinterpretation" of the received information can contribute to the improvement of educational technologies for the development of cognitive mechanisms of the cognitive process of the individual.