An Invitation to Cognitive Science, Volume 4.: Methods, Models, and Conceptual Issues. 2nd Edition

Don Scarborough; Saul Sternberg

ISBN 10: 0262650460 / ISBN 13: 9780262650465

Published by MIT Press, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: An Invitation to Cognitive Science, Volume 4.: Methods, Models, and Conceptual Issues. 2nd Edition
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262650460
• ISBN 13: 9780262650465
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

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.