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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 ; 13 . - Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 13. .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The Life of Cognitive Science / Areas of Study in Cognitive Science. Analogy / Animal cognition / Attention / Brain mapping / Cognitive anthropology / Cognitive and linguistic development / Conceptual change / Conceptual organization / Consciousness / Decision making / Emotions / Imagery and spatial representation / Language evolution and neuromechanisms / Language processing / Linguistic theory / Machine learning / Memory / William Bechtel, Adele Abrahamsen and George Graham -- Dedre Gentner. Herbert L. Roitblat. A. H. C. Van Der Heijden. Jennifer Mundale. Charles W. Nuckolls. Adele Abrahamsen. Nancy J. Nersessian. Douglas Medin and Sandra R. Waxman. Owen Flanagan. J. Frank Yates and Paul A. Estin. Paul E. Griffiths. Rita E. Anderson. Terrence W. Deacon. Kathryn Bock and Susan M. Garnsey. D. Terence Langendoen. Paul Thagard. Henry L. Roediger III and Lyn M. Goff. Pt. I. Pt. II. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. Perception / Perception: color / Problem solving / Reasoning / Social cognition / Unconscious intelligence / Understanding texts / Word meaning / Methodologies of Cognitive Science. Artificial intelligence / Behavioral experimentation / Cognitive ethology / Deficits and pathologies / Ethnomethodology / Functional analysis / Neuroimaging / Protocol analysis / Single neuron electrophysiology / Structural analysis / Stances in Cognitive Science. Cees Van Leeuwen. Austen Clark. Kevin Dunbar. Lance J. Rips. Alan J. Lambert and Alison L. Chasteen. Rhianon Allen and Arthur S. Reber. Art Graesser and Pam Tipping. Barbara C. Malt -- Ron Sun. Alexander Pollatsek and Keith Rayner. Marc Bekoff. Christopher D. Frith. Barry Saferstein. Brian MacWhinney. Randy L. Buckner and Steven E. Petersen. K. Anders Ericsson. B. E. Stein, M. T. Wallace and T. R. Stanford. Robert Frank -- 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. Pt. III. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. Pt. IV. Case-based reasoning / Cognitive linguistics / Connectionism, artificial life, and dynamical systems / Embodied, situated, and distributed cognition / Mediated action / Neurobiological modeling / Production systems / Controversies in Cognitive Science. The binding problem / Heuristics and satisficing / Innate knowledge / Innateness and emergentism / Intentionality / Levels of explanation and cognitive architectures / Modularity / Representation and computation / Representations / David B. Leake. Michael Tomasello. Jeffrey L. Elman. Andy Clark. James V. Wertsch. P. Read Montague and Peter Dayan. Christian D. Schunn and David Klahr -- Valerie Gray Hardcastle. Robert C. Richardson. Barbara Landau. Elizabeth Bates, Jeffrey L. Elman and Mark H. Johnson [et al.]. Gilbert Harman. Robert N. McCauley. Irene Appelbaum. Robert S. Stufflebeam. Dorrit Billman. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. Pt. V. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. Rules / Stage theories refuted / Cognitive Science in the Real World. Education / Ethics / Everyday life environments / Institutions and economics / Legal reasoning / Mental retardation / Science / Selective biographies of major contributors to cognitive science / Terence Horgan and John Tienson. Donald G. MacKay -- John T. Bruer. Mark L. Johnson. Alex Kirlik. Douglass C. North. Edwina L. Rissland. Norman W. Bray, Kevin D. Reilly and Lisa F. Huffman [et al.]. William F. Brewer and Punyashloke Mishra -- William Bechtel and Tadeusz Zawidzki. 52. 53. Pt. VI. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60.

ISBN: 1557865426 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN: 97038757

Nat. Bib. No.: GB98-74491

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Cognitive science.

LC Class. No.: BF311 / .C578 1998

Dewey Class. No.: 153