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Companion to Cognitive Science

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ISBN-10: 0631218513

ISBN-13: 9780631218517

Edition: 1999

Authors: William Bechtel, George Graham, George Graham

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Unmatched in the quality of its world-renowned contributors, this multidisciplinary Companion serves as both a course text and a reference book across the broad spectrum of issues of concern to cognitive science. Cognitive science is one of the most exciting intellectual and scientific developments of the second half of the 20th century, integrating insights from psychology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, philosophy, and other disciplines in an attempt to understand human cognition. It is also a rapidly transforming domain of inquiry. This Companion presents a deep and varied account of what one needs to know about cognitive science, what it has accomplished, and…    
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Book details

List price: $75.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/10/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 810
Size: 6.80" wide x 9.70" long x 2.32" tall
Weight: 3.124
Language: English

George Graham is a Professor of Philosophy and Neuroscience at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Preface
Acknowledgments
The Life of Cognitive Science
Areas of Study in Cognitive Science
Analogy
Animal cognition
Attention
Brain mapping
Cognitive anthropology
Cognitive and linguistic development
Conceptual change
Conceptual organization
Consciousness
Decision making
Emotions
Imagery and spatial representation
Language evolution and neuromechanisms
Language processing
Linguistic theory
Machine learning
Memory
Perception
Perception: color
Problem solving
Reasoning
Social cognition
Unconscious intelligence
Understanding texts
Word meaning
Methodologies of Cognitive Science
Artificial intelligence
Behavioral experimentation
Cognitive ethology
Deficits and pathologies
Ethnomethodology
Functional analysis
Neuroimaging
Protocol analysis
Single neuron electrophysiology
Structural analysis
Stances in Cognitive Science
Case-based reasoning
Cognitive linguistics
Connectionism, artificial life, and dynamical systems
Embodied, situated, and distributed cognition
Mediated action
Neurobiological modeling
Production systems
Controversies in Cognitive Science
The binding problem
Heuristics and satisficing
Innate knowledge
Innateness and emergentism
Intentionality
Levels of explanation and cognitive architectures
Modularity
Representation and computation
Representations
Rules
Stage theories refuted
Cognitive Science in the Real World
Education
Ethics
Everyday life environments
Institutions and economics
Legal reasoning
Mental retardation
Science
Selective biographies of major contributors to cognitive science
Author index
Subject index
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