Cognitive Science: An Introduction
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Cognitive Science: An Introduction
This book is intended to be an introductory undergraduate text for the field of cognitive science, the interdicipline that endeavors to understand cognition at a computational level from a variety of methodological viewpoints.
About This Book
What Cognitive Science Is
The Architecture of the Mind
The Evolution of Intelligence
- Methodology: How Can We Understand the Evolution of Intelligence?
- A Brief History of Human Evolution
- Explanations For How Humans Got So Smart
Perception
- Perception's Role in Cognition
- Vision
- Audition
- Haptics
- Olfaction
- Gustation
- Proprioception
- Interoception
- Senses In Non-human Animals and Robots
- What the Senses Have in Common
Classification and Categorization
Memory, Representation, and Learning
- Human Memory
- Computer and Software Memory
- Memory In Distributed Cognitive Systems
- Kinds of Learning
- Learning At Different Levels of Analysis
- How Cognitive Science Can Help You Get Through School
Reasoning and Inference
Language and Communication
- Kinds of Language
- Non-Human Animal Communication
- Human Language
- Logic
- The Language of Thought and Intra-brain Communication
Executive Control and Consciousness
Methods
- Artificial Intelligence Methods
- Psychology Methods
- Philosophy Methods
- Linguistics Methods
- Anthropology Methods
""Cognitive Science and The Real World""
