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Title A companion to cognitive science / edited by William Bechtel and George Graham ; advisory editors, David A. Balota ... [and others]
Published Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 1998

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Description xvii, 791 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Series Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 13 [i.e. 14]
Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 13
Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 14
Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 13
Contents Pt. I. The Life of Cognitive Science / William Bechtel, Adele Abrahamsen and George Graham -- Pt. II. Areas of Study in Cognitive Science. 1. Analogy / Dedre Gentner. 2. Animal cognition / Herbert L. Roitblat. 3. Attention / A. H. C. Van Der Heijden. 4. Brain mapping / Jennifer Mundale. 5. Cognitive anthropology / Charles W. Nuckolls. 6. Cognitive and linguistic development / Adele Abrahamsen. 7. Conceptual change / Nancy J. Nersessian. 8. Conceptual organization / Douglas Medin and Sandra R. Waxman. 9. Consciousness / Owen Flanagan. 10. Decision making / J. Frank Yates and Paul A. Estin. 11. Emotions / Paul E. Griffiths. 12. Imagery and spatial representation / Rita E. Anderson. 13. Language evolution and neuromechanisms / Terrence W. Deacon. 14. Language processing / Kathryn Bock and Susan M. Garnsey. 15. Linguistic theory / D. Terence Langendoen. 16. Machine learning / Paul Thagard. 17. Memory / Henry L. Roediger III and Lyn M. Goff. 18. Perception / Cees Van Leeuwen. 19. Perception: color / Austen Clark. 20. Problem solving / Kevin Dunbar. 21. Reasoning / Lance J. Rips. 22. Social cognition / Alan J. Lambert and Alison L. Chasteen. 23. Unconscious intelligence / Rhianon Allen and Arthur S. Reber. 24. Understanding texts / Art Graesser and Pam Tipping. 25. Word meaning / Barbara C. Malt -- Pt. III. Methodologies of Cognitive Science. 26. Artificial intelligence / Ron Sun. 27. Behavioral experimentation / Alexander Pollatsek and Keith Rayner. 28. Cognitive ethology / Marc Bekoff. 29. Deficits and pathologies / Christopher D. Frith. 30. Ethnomethodology / Barry Saferstein. 31. Functional analysis / Brian MacWhinney. 32. Neuroimaging / Randy L. Buckner and Steven E. Petersen. 33. Protocol analysis / K. Anders Ericsson. 34. Single neuron electrophysiology / B. E. Stein, M. T. Wallace and T. R. Stanford. 35. Structural analysis / Robert Frank -- Pt. IV. Stances in Cognitive Science. 36. Case-based reasoning / David B. Leake. 37. Cognitive linguistics / Michael Tomasello. 38. Connectionism, artificial life, and dynamical systems / Jeffrey L. Elman. 39. Embodied, situated, and distributed cognition / Andy Clark. 40. Mediated action / James V. Wertsch. 41. Neurobiological modeling / P. Read Montague and Peter Dayan. 42. Production systems / Christian D. Schunn and David Klahr -- Pt. V. Controversies in Cognitive Science. 43. The binding problem / Valerie Gray Hardcastle. 44. Heuristics and satisficing / Robert C. Richardson. 45. Innate knowledge / Barbara Landau. 46. Innateness and emergentism / Elizabeth Bates, Jeffrey L. Elman and Mark H. Johnson. 47. Intentionality / Gilbert Harman. 48. Levels of explanation and cognitive architectures / Robert N. McCauley. 49. Modularity / Irene Appelbaum. 50. Representation and computation / Robert S. Stufflebeam. 51. Representations / Dorrit Billman. 52. Rules / Terence Horgan and John Tienson. 53. Stage theories refuted / Donald G. MacKay -- Pt. VI. Cognitive Science in the Real World. 54. Education / John T. Bruer. 55. Ethics / Mark L. Johnson. 56. Everyday life environments / Alex Kirlik. 57. Institutions and economics / Douglass C. North. 58. Legal reasoning / Edwina L. Rissland. 59. Mental retardation / Norman W. Bray, Kevin D. Reilly and Lisa F. Huffman. 60. Science / William F. Brewer and Punyashloke Mishra -- Selective biographies of major contributors to cognitive science / William Bechtel and Tadeusz Zawidzki
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Also available online via the World Wide Web, by subscription to Blackwell Reference Online
Subject Cognitive science.
Cognitive Science.
Genre/Form Aufsatzsammlung
Author Bechtel, William.
Graham, George, 1945-
Balota, D. A.
LC no. 97038757
ISBN 1557865426 hardcover alkaline paper
0631218513 paperback