Perspectives on Cognitive Science, Volume 2
Theories, Experiments, and Foundations
Published on 28. April 1999
Book
Hardback
362 pages
978-1-56750-382-1 (ISBN)
Description
The papers in this collection, and the editors' introductions, illustrate the ferment of ideas, the wide range of theories, methods and approaches, and the rich fruits of the cognitive revolution.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
692 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56750-382-1 (9781567503821)
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JANET WILES is senior lecturer in the Psychology and Computer Science Departments at the University of Queensland. Her research interests include Neural networks, cognitive models of human vision, memory and cognition.
tERRY DARTNALL is senior lecturer in the School of Computing and Information Technology at Griffith University, Brisbane, where he teaches Artificial Intelligence and logic. His main research is in the foundations of Artificial Intelligence and cognitive science, and the related areas of philosophy.
tERRY DARTNALL is senior lecturer in the School of Computing and Information Technology at Griffith University, Brisbane, where he teaches Artificial Intelligence and logic. His main research is in the foundations of Artificial Intelligence and cognitive science, and the related areas of philosophy.
Content
PART I: FOUNDATIONS Introduction: Cognitive Science at the Crossraods- Foundational Issues in Cognitive Science, Terry Dartnall From Simple Processes Does Complex Behavior Emerge: A Methodology for Cognitive Research Based on Nonlinear System Theory, Richard A. Heath Real-world Embedding and Traditional Artificial Intilligence, Steve Torrance Situated Cognition: Empirical Issue, "Paradigm Shift" or Conceptual Confusion? Peter Slezak Cognition, Content, and the Inner Code, Terry Dartnall Subtractive Reasoning, Representationism and False Belief Tasks, Donald M. Peterson and Kevin J. Riggs A Study of Belief Revision Theories, Francis Jeffry Pelletier, and Renee Elio Kantian Errors in "Classical" Cognitive Science, Hugh Clapin PART II. LEARNING, MEMORY, AND COGNITION Introduction: Computational Methods and Cognitive Phenomena, Janet Wiles Is Skill Acquisition General or Specific? David Grieg and Craig P. Speelman Tensor Product Model of Exemplar-based Category Learning, Yoshihisa Kashmina Modeling the Effects of Arousal on Recognition Performance, Zoltan Schreter and Matthew Kirkcaldie A Connectionist Model of Short-term Cued Recall, Gerald Tehan and Anthony Fallon The Integration of Cognitive Knowledge into a Perceptual Representation: Lessons from Human and Computer Go, Jay Burmeister, Janet Wiles, and Helen Purchase PART III. COMMUNICATIONS, SPEECH, AND LANGUAGE Introduction: Communication, Speech and Language, Janet Wiles Word Prosody, Lexical Access and the Perception of Foreign Loan Words, John Ingram A Case Study in Information Processing: Sentence Processing, Bruce Stevenson Syntactic Recovery and Spelling Correction of Ill-formed Sentences, Kyongho Min and William H. Wilson Speech Intelligibility and Noise: The Auditory Interface, Roger Wales and Peter Kremer Informationally Equivalent Representations: An Architecture and Applications, Helen Purchase Author Index Subject Index