APA Dictionary of Psychology
central processor
- the part of a computer that controls and executes operations on data.
- in models of cognition based on analogies to information processing in a computer, that part of the system that carries out operations on stored representations. The idea of a single central processor in the human cognitive system has been challenged by models based on distributed processing, parallel distributed processing, and parallel processing.
Updated on 04/19/2018
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