| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 313 pages) |
| Contents |
Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction: a Fodor's guide to cognitive science / Roberto G. de Almeida & Lila Gleitman -- Language and the modularity of mind -- Two notions of modularity / Noam Chomsky -- Exploring the limits of modularity / Merrill F. Garrett -- The modularity of sentence processing reconsidered / Fernanda Ferreira & James Nye -- The unity of consciousness and the consciousness of unit / Thomas G. Bever -- Semantics for a module / Roberto G. de Almeida & Ernie Lepore -- Center-embedded sentences : what's pronounceable is comprehensible / Janet Dean Fodor, Stefanie Nickels, & Esther Schott -- Getting to the root of the matter : acquisition of morphology / Natalie Batmanian & Karin Stromswold -- Cognitive science and Fodorian exceptionalism / Zenon W. Pylyshyn -- Concepts and the language of thought -- Fodor and the innateness of all (basic) concepts / Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini -- The immediacy of conceptual processing / Mary C. Potter -- On language and thought : a question of formats / David J. Lobina & Jose Garcia-Albea -- The neurobiological bases for the computational theory of mind / Randy C. Gallistel -- Indices |
| Summary |
What are the landmarks of the cognitive revolution? What are the core topics of modern cognitive science? Where is cognitive science heading to? Leading cognitive scientists--Chomsky, Pylyshyn, Gallistel, and others--examine their own work in relation to one of cognitive science's most influential and polemical figures: Jerry Fodor |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 27, 2017) |
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Cognition.
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Cognitive science.
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Semantics (Philosophy)
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Language acquisition.
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Cognition
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Cognitive Science
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Language Development
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cognition.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology.
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SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
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Cognition
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Cognitive science
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Language acquisition
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Semantics (Philosophy)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
De Almeida, Roberto G., editor
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Gleitman, Lila R., editor
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| LC no. |
2017031978 |
| ISBN |
9780190464790 |
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0190464798 |
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9780190464806 |
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0190464801 |
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