An Invitation to Cognitive Science

Methods, Models, and Conceptual Issues

Buch | Softcover

964 Seiten

1998 | second edition
MIT Press (Verlag)
9780262650465 (ISBN)

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The chapters in this volume span many areas of cognitive science-including artificial intelligence, neural network models, animal cognition, signal detection theory, computational models, reaction-time methods, and cognitive neuroscience.An Invitation to Cognitive Science provides a point of entry into the vast realm of cognitive science by treating in depth examples of issues and theories from many subfields. The first three volumes of the series cover Language, Visual Cognition, and Thinking.Volume 4, Methods, Models, and Conceptual Issues, expands the series in new directions. The chapters span many areas of cognitive science-including artificial intelligence, neural network models, animal cognition, signal detection theory, computational models, reaction-time methods, and cognitive neuroscience. The volume also offers introductions to several general methods and theoretical approaches for analyzing the mind, and shows how some of these approaches are applied in the development of quantitative models.Rather than general and inevitably superficial surveys of areas, the contributors present "case studies"-detailed accounts of one or two achievements within an area. The goal is to tell a good story, challenging the reader to embark on an intellectual adventure.

Daniel N. Osherson is at MIT. Saul Sternberg is Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Charles R. Gallistel is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Owen Flanagan is James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. He is the author of Consciousness Reconsidered and The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World, both published by the MIT Press, and other books. Mark Steedman is Professor of Cognitive Science in the Division of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Surface Structure and Interpretation (1996) and The Syntactic Process (2000), both published by the MIT Press. John E. Laird is John L. Tishman Professor of Engineering in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. Paul S. Rosenbloom is Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California and Project Leader at USC's Institute for Creative Technologies. James A. Anderson is Professor in the Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at Brown University. Barbara Dosher is Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. She is coauthor of Visual Psychophysics: From Laboratory to Theory (MIT Press).

Symbolic processes in the brain - the case of insect navigation, Charles R. Gallistel; The mental representation of time - uncovering a biological clock, Seth Roberts; The evolution of cognition - questions we will never answer, Richard C. Lewontin; Consciousness and the mind - contributions from philosophy, neuroscience, and psychology, Owen Flanagan, Donald T. Dryden; Cognitive algorithms - questions of representation and computation in building a theory, Mark Steedman; A gentle introduction to Soar - an architecture for human cognition, Jill Fain Lehman et al; Learning arithmetic with a neural network -seven times seven is about 50, James a. anderson; Models for reading letters and words, dominic W. Massaro; Inferring mental operations from reaction-time data - how we compare objects, Saul Sternberg; Models of visual search - finding a face in the crowd, Barbara Anne Dosher; Skill acquisition and plans for actions - learning to write with your other hand, Patricia G. Lindenmann, Charles E. Wright; Drawing conclusions from data - statistical methods for coping with uncertainty, Thomas D. Wickens; Separating discrimination and decision in detection, recognition, and matters of life and death, John A. Swets; Discovering mental processing stages - the method of additive factors, Saul Sternberg; Brainwaves and mental processes - electrical evidence of attention, perception, and intention, Allen Osman.

Reihe/Serie	A Bradford Book
Co-Autor	Saul Sternberg, Don Scarborough, Charles R. Gallistel, Seth Roberts
Verlagsort	Cambridge, Mass.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 226 mm
Gewicht	1270 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
ISBN-13	9780262650465 / 9780262650465
Zustand	Neuware