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What is Cognitive Science?
Ernest Lepore (Edited by), E Lepore (Author), Zenon Pylyshyn (Edited by)
9780631204930, Wiley
Hardback, published 14 August 1999
448 pages
25.5 x 17.8 x 2.8 cm, 0.907 kg
"Many of the authors are major academic figures (e.g., Fodor, Pylyshyn, Stich), and all are authoritative in their fields. The book, taken as a whole, conveys some of the excitement going on today in cognitive science. Recommended." C. Koch, Choice "Having been based on a lecture series that brought together some of the most innovative research in the field, this collection will work superbly as an introductory text. Aimed at a diverse audience, the issues are given a systematic presentation with technical concepts introduced both gradually and precisely. Lepore and Pylyshyn's edition serves as a quite complete and provocative path of entry into the science of the mind." David Kilfoyle, York University, Canada "An excellent collection of chapters by very talented investigators who truly understand the mission of cognitive science." -- Rochel Gelman, Rutgers University
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.
Preface vii Acknowledgements ix 1 What’s in your mind? 1 2 Explaining the infant’s object concept: Beyond the perception/cognition dichotomy 26 3 Rethinking rationality: From bleak implications to Darwinian modules 74 4 New foundations for perception 121 5 Object representation and recognition 172 6 Does vision work? Towards a semantics of perception 208 7 The brain as a hypothesis-constructing-and-testing agent 230 8 What movements of the eye tell us about the mind 248 9 Visual dilemmas: Competition between eyes and between percepts in binocular rivalry 263 10 Linguistic and cognitive explanation in optimality theory 295 11 Impossible words? 327 12 Bridging the symbolic-connectionist gap in language comprehension 336 13 Cognitive and neural aspects of language acquisitions 356 14 Connectionist neuroscience: representational and learning issues for neuroscience 401 Index 429
Zenon W. Pylyshyn
Brian J. Scholl and Alan M. Leslie
Richard Samuels, Stephen Stich, and Patrice D. Tremoulet
Michael Leyton
Sven J. Dickinson
Jacob Feldman
Thomas V. Papathomas
Eileen Kowler
Thomas V. Papathomas, Ilona Kovacs, Akos Feher, and Bela Julesz
Bruce Tesar, Jane Grimshaw, and Alan Prince
Jerry Fodor and Ernest Lepore
Suzanne Stevenson
Karin Stromswold
Stephen Jose Hanson
Subject Areas: Philosophy [HP]
