UID:
almafu_9960950847802883
Format:
1 online resource (878 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-09982-5
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9786612099823
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0-262-27826-X
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0-585-44653-9
Content:
Scientists from many disciplines, including physics, chemistry, biology, and neuroscience, contribute to the study of cognition. Cognitive psychology, the science of the human mind and of how people process information, is at the core of empirical investigations into the nature of mind and thought. This anthology is based on the assumption that cognitive psychology is at heart empirical philosophy. Many of the core questions about thought, language, perception, memory, and knowledge of other people's minds were for centuries the domain of philosophy. The book begins with the philosophical foundations of inquiry into the nature of mind and thought, in particular the writings of Descartes, and then covers the principal topics of cognitive psychology including memory, attention, and decision making. The book organizes a daunting amount of information, underlining the essentials, while also introducing readers to the ambiguities and controversies of research. It is arranged thematically and includes many topics not typically taught in cognition courses, including human factors and ergonomics, evolutionary psychology, music cognition, and experimental design. The contributors include Daniel Dennett, Daniel Kahneman, Jay McClelland, Donald Norman, Michael Posner, Stephen Palmer, Eleanor Rosch, John Searle, Roger Shepard, and Anne Treisman.
Note:
"A Bradford book."
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Contents ; Preface; Part I - Foundations-Philosophical Basis, The Mind/Body Problem; Chapter 1 Visual Awareness; Chapter 2 Where Am I?; Chapter 3 Can Machines Think?; Part II - Neural Networks; Chapter 4 The Appeal of Parallel Distributed Processing; Part III - Objections; Chapter 5 Minds, Brains, and Programs; Part IV - Experimental Design; Chapter 6 Experimental Design in Psychological Research; Part IV - Perception; Chapter 7 Perception; Chapter 8 Organizing Objects and Scenes; Chapter 9 The Auditory Scene; Part VI - Categories and Concepts
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Chapter 10 Principles of CategorizationChapter 11 Philosophical Investigations, Sections 65-78; Chapter 12 The Exemplar View; Part VII - Memory; Chapter 13 Memory for Musical Attributes; Chapter 14 Memory; Part VIII - Attention; Chapter 15 Attention and Performance Limitations; Chapter 16 Features and Objects in Visual Processing; Part IX - Human-Computer Interaction; Chapter 17 The Psychopathology of Everyday Things; Chapter 18 Distributed Cognition; Part X - Music Cognition; Chapter 19 Neural Nets, Temporal Composites, and Tonality
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Chapter 20 The Development of Music Perception and CognitionChapter 21 Cognitive Psychology and Music; Part XI - Expertise; Chapter 22 Prospects and Limits of the Empirical Study of Expertise: An Introduction; Chapter 23 Three Problems in Teaching General Skills; Chapter 24 Musical Expertise; Part XII - Decision Making; Chapter 25 Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases; Chapter 26 Decision Making; Chapter 27 For Those Condermned to Study the Past: Heuristics and Biases in Hindsight; Part XIII - Evolutionary Approaches; Chapter 28 Adaptations, Exaptations, and Spandrels
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Chapter 29 Toward Mapping the Evolved Functional Organization of Mind and BrainPart XIV - Language 1-Language Acquisition; Chapter 30 The Invention of Language by Children: Environmental and Biological Influences; Part XV - Language 2-Language and Thought; Chapter 31 Languages and Logic; Part XVI - Language 3-Pragmatics; Chapter 32 Logic and Conversation; Chapter 33 Idiomaticity and Human Cognition; Part XVII - Intelligence; Chapter 34 In a Nutshell; Chapter 35 A Rounded Version; Chapter 36 Individual Differences in Cognition; Part XVIII - Cognitive Neuroscience
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Chapter 37 Localization of Cognitive Operations in the Human BrainChapter 38 The Mind and Donald O. Hebb; Chapter 39 Imaging the Future; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-262-62159-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-262-12247-2
Language:
English
URL:
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