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computational model

any account of cognitive or psychobiological processes that assumes that the human mind functions like a digital computer, specifically in its ability to form representations of events and objects and to carry out complex sequences of operations on these representations.

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trochlear nerve

trochlear nerve

the fourth cranial nerve, which contains motor fibers supplying the superior oblique muscle of the eyeball.