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This engagingly written introduction to the cognitive sciences examines the historical and contemporary issues and research findings of the core cognitive science disciplines, including cognitive psychology, neuroscience, language, philosophy, and artificial intelligence. For each of the core disciplines of cognitive science, the historical development and classic research studies are presented in one chapter and current research development and issues follow in a second chapter. The student is given insight into the way each discipline has contributed to the growth of cognitive science and what directions research is taking in the future. This text assumes no background on the part of the reader.
The Approach of Cognitive Science
The Approach of Cognitive Science
- Concepts and Categories 29
- Mental Representation 44
- Propositional Networks 48
- The Notion of Scripts 52
- Mental Imagery 54
- Problem Solving 60
- Memory 65
Sitting near me the other day was my friend Amy. We were companionably working at our computers, and Amy's fingers were going a mile a minute on the keyboard. I was for the moment just thinking—thinking, in fact, about thinking, which is essentially the subject of this chapter. Then ...
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