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William Bechtel

A companion to cognitive science / edited by William Bechtel and George Graham ; advisory editors, David A. Balota ... [et al.]. - Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 1998. - xvii, 791 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. - Blackwell companions to philosophy ; .

Includes bibliographical references and index

Part I: The Life of Cognitive Science. --
Part II. Areas of Study in Cognitive Science. --
1. Analogy. --
2. Animal Cognition. --
3. Attention. --
4. Brain Mapping. --
5. Cognitive Anthropology. --
6. Cognitive and Linguistic Development. --
7. Conceptual Change. --
8. Conceptual Organization. --
9. Consciousness. --
10. Decision Making. --
11. Emotions. --
12. Imagery and Spatial Representation. 13. Language Evolution and Neuromechanisms. --
14. Language Processing. --
15. Linguistic Theory. --
16. Machine Learning. --
17. Memory. --
18. Perception. --
19. Perception: Color. --
20. Problem Solving. --
21. Reasoning. --
22. Social Cognition. --
23. Unconscious Intelligence. --
24. Understanding Texts. --
25. Word Meaning. --
Part III: Methodologies of Cognitive Science. --
26. Artificial Intelligence. --
27. Behavioral Experimentation. --
28. Cognitive Ethology. --
29. Deficits and Pathologies. --
30. Ethnomethodology. --
31. Functional Analysis. --
32. Neuroimaging. --
33. Protocol Analysis. --
34. Single Neuron Electrophysiology. --
35. Structural Analysis. Part IV: Stance in Cognitive Science. --
36. Case-based Reasoning. --
37. Cognitive Linguistics. --
38. Connectionism, Artificial Life, and Dynamical Systems. --
39. Embodied, Situated, and Distributed Cognition. --
40. Mediated Action. --
41. Neurobiolobical modeling. --
42. Production Systems. --
Part V. Controversies in Cognitive Science. --
43. Binding Problem.- 44. Heuristics and Satisficing. --
45. Innate Knowledge. --
46. Innateness and Emergentism. --
47. Intentionality. --
48 . Levels of Explanation and Cognitive Architectures. --
49. Modularity. --
50. Representation and Computation. --
51. Representations. --
52. Rules. --
53. Stage theories refuted. --
Part VI: Cognitive Science in the Real World. -54. Education. --
55. Ethics. --
56. Everyday Life Environments. --
57. Institutions and Economics. --
58. Legal Reasoning. --
59. Mental Retardation. --
60. Science.

ISBN: 1557865426 (hardcover : alk. paper)

ISSN: 9781557865427

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Cognitive science.

LC Class. No.: BF311 / .C578