What is cognitive science?
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What is cognitive science?
Blackwell, 1999
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Written by an assembly of leading researchers in the field, this volume provides an innovative and non-technical introduction to cognitive science, and the key issues that animate the field.
Table of Contents
Preface vii
Acknowledgements ix
1 What's in your mind? 1
Zenon W. Pylyshyn
2 Explaining the infant's object concept: Beyond the perception/cognition dichotomy 26
Brian J. Scholl and Alan M. Leslie
3 Rethinking rationality: From bleak implications to Darwinian modules 74
Richard Samuels, Stephen Stich, and Patrice D. Tremoulet
4 New foundations for perception 121
Michael Leyton
5 Object representation and recognition 172
Sven J. Dickinson
6 Does vision work? Towards a semantics of perception 208
Jacob Feldman
7 The brain as a hypothesis-constructing-and-testing agent 230
Thomas V. Papathomas
8 What movements of the eye tell us about the mind 248
Eileen Kowler
9 Visual dilemmas: Competition between eyes and between percepts in binocular rivalry 263
Thomas V. Papathomas, Ilona Kovacs, Akos Feher, and Bela Julesz
10 Linguistic and cognitive explanation in optimality theory 295
Bruce Tesar, Jane Grimshaw, and Alan Prince
11 Impossible words? 327
Jerry Fodor and Ernest Lepore
12 Bridging the symbolic-connectionist gap in language comprehension 336
Suzanne Stevenson
13 Cognitive and neural aspects of language acquisitions 356
Karin Stromswold
14 Connectionist neuroscience: representational and learning issues for neuroscience 401
Stephen Jose Hanson
Index 429
by "Nielsen BookData"