Cognitive Science : An Introduction to the Study of Mind
by Jay FriedenbergEdition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-07-01
Publisher(s): SAGE Publications, Inc
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Summary
In this Second Edition of their landmark text, Authors Jay Friedenberg and Gordon Silverman survey significant theoretical models of the human mind from an interdisciplinary perspective. Unlike other texts for this course which focus solely on classic experiments to illustrate major phenomena, Cognitive Science introduces students to the theoretical models and ideas underlying such empirical work. While experiments are discussed, they are used primarily to illustrate the specific characteristics of a model. This edition includes two new chapters on emotional cognition and social cognition.
Table of Contents
| Introduction: Exploring Inner Space | |
| a Brave New World | |
| What Is Cognitive Science? | |
| Representation | |
| Computation | |
| The Interdisciplinary Perspective | |
| Interdisciplinary Crossroads: The Philosophy and Psychology of Mental Representation | |
| Summing Up: Review of Chapter 1 | |
| The Philosophical Approach: Enduring Questions | |
| What Is Philosophy? | |
| The Mind-Body Problem | |
| Monism | |
| Dualism | |
| Functionalism | |
| The Knowledge Acquisition Problem | |
| The Mystery of Consciousness | |
| Overall Evaluation of the Philosophical Approach | |
| Interdisciplinary Crossroads: Philosophy, Neuroscience and Binocular Rivalry | |
| Summing Up: Review of Chapter 2 | |
| The Psychological Approach: a Profusion of Theories | |
| What Is Psychology? | |
| Psychology and the Scientific Method | |
| Mental Atoms, Mental Molecules, and a Periodic Table of the Mind: The Voluntarist Movement | |
| Structuralism: What the Mind Is | |
| Functionalism: What the Mind Does | |
| The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts: Mental Physics and the Gestalt Movement | |
| Mini-Minds: Mechanism and Psychoanalytic Psychology | |
| Mind as a Black Box: The Behaviorist Approach | |
| Overall Evaluation of the Psychological Approach | |
| Interdisciplinary Crossroads: Gestalt Phenomenology, Experimental Psychology and Perceptual Grouping | |
| Summing Up: a Review of Chapter 3 | |
| The Cognitive Approach I: Vision, Pattern Recognition and Attention | |
| Some History First: The Rise of Cognitive Psychology | |
| The Cognitive Approach: Mind as an Information Processor | |
| Modularity of Mind | |
| Theories of Vision and Pattern Recognition | |
| Theories of Attention | |
| Evaluating the Model-Building Approach | |
| Interdisciplinary Crossroads: Computational Vision and Pattern Recognition | |
| Summing Up: a Review of Chapter 4 | |
| The Cognitive Approach II: Memory, Imagery, and Problem Solving | |
| Types of Memory | |
| Memory Models | |
| Visual Imagery | |
| Problem Solving | |
| Overall Evaluation of the Cognitive Approach | |
| Interdisciplinary Crossroads: Artificial Intelligence, Problem Solving and the SOAR Model | |
| Summing Up: a Review of Chapter 5 | |
| The Neuroscience Approach: Mind As Brain | |
| The Neuroscience Perspective | |
| Methodology in Neuroscience | |
| Modern Brain Imaging Methods | |
| Brain Stimulation Techniques | |
| The Small Picture: Neuron Anatomy and Physiology | |
| The Big Picture: Brain Anatomy | |
| The Neuroscience of Visual Object Recognition | |
| The Neuroscience of Attention | |
| Disorders of Attention | |
| The Neuroscience of Memory | |
| Neural Substrates of Working Memory | |
| Neural Substrates of Long-Term Memories | |
| The Neuroscience of Executive Function and Problem Solving | |
| Overall Evaluation of the Neuroscience Approach | |
| Interdisciplinary Crossroads: Perceptual Binding and Neural Synchrony | |
| Summing Up: a Review of Chapter 6 | |
| The Network Approach: Mind as a Web | |
| The Network Perspective | |
| Artificial Neural Networks | |
| Semantic Networks: Meaning in the Web | |
| Network Science | |
| Overall Evaluation of the Network Approach | |
| Interdisciplinary Crossroads: Emotions and Networks | |
| Summing Up: a Review of Chapter 7 | |
| The Evolutionary Approach: Change Over Time | |
| The Evolutionary View | |
| a Little Background: Natural Selection and Genetics | |
| Comparative Cognition | |
| Evolutionary Psychology | |
| Overall Evaluation of the Evolutionary Approach | |
| Interdisciplinary Crossroads: Evolutionary Processes and Artificial Life | |
| Summing Up: a Review of Chapter 8 | |
| The Linguistic Approach: Language and Cognitive Science | |
| The Linguistic Approach: The Importance of Language | |
| The Nature of Language | |
| Language Use in Primates | |
| Language Acquisition | |
| Language Deprivation | |
| Cognition and Linguistics: The Role of Grammar | |
| Neuroscience and Linguistics: The Wernicke-Geschwind Model | |
| Artificial Intelligence and Linguistics: Natural Language Processing | |
| Overall Evaluation of the Linguistic Approach | |
| Interdisciplinary Crossroads: Language, Philosophy and the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis | |
| Summing Up: a Review of Chapter 9 | |
| The Emotional Approach: Mind as Emotion | |
| What is Emotion? | |
| Basic Emotions | |
| Theories of Emotion | |
| Hot and Cold: Emotion-Cognition Interactions | |
| Emotions and Neuroscience | |
| Emotions, Evolution and Psychological Disorders | |
| Emotions and Artificial Intelligence: Affective Computing | |
| Overall Evaluation of the Emotional Approach | |
| Interdisciplinary Crossroads: Emotion, Robotics and the Kisment Project | |
| Summing Up: a Review of Chapter 10 | |
| The Social Approach: Mind as Society | |
| Social Cognition | |
| Evolution and Social Cognition | |
| Attention and Social Cognition | |
| Social Cognitive Neuroscience | |
| Theory of Mind | |
| Other Social Cognitive Disorders | |
| Attitudes | |
| Impressions | |
| Attribution | |
| Stereotypes | |
| Prejudice | |
| Overall Evaluation of the Social Approach | |
| Interdisciplinary Crossroads: Game Theory and PrisonerâÇÖs Dilemma | |
| Summing Up: a Review of Chapter 11 | |
| The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Approach I: The Mind As Machine | |
| Cognitive Science from the AI Perspective | |
| Historical Precursors | |
| Universal Computation and TuringâÇÖs Contribution | |
| The Turing Test | |
| Evaluating the Work of TuringâÇÖs Universal Computing Machine | |
| Predictive Architectures and Their Physical Challenges | |
| Evaluating Machine Computational Limitations | |
| Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) | |
| Evolutionary Computing | |
| Evaluation of Evolutionary Computing and Artificial General Intelligence | |
| Agent-Based Architectures | |
| Multiagent Systems | |
| Overall Evaluation of the Computer as a Model of Brain Organization | |
| Interdisciplinary Cross-Roads*fill in later | |
| Artificial Intelligence II: Embodiments and Robotics | |
| Introduction | |
| The IA Paradigm | |
| Why Biology is Important | |
| Modeling Aspects of Biological Systems | |
| Abstracting General Principles of IAs | |
| Embodiment and situational aspects of intelligent behavior | |
| Relationships between elements of the IA system (structure) and the environment | |
| Applying the principles to the design of IAs | |
| Cognitive Models of IAs | |
| Deep Blue and the Chess Master | |
| Can an IA âÇ£learnâÇ to play a winning game without knowing anything about the game? | |
| Expert Systems âÇô a culminating âÇ£top-downâÇ example | |
| Why Not Build a Brain âÇô the Blue Brain Project | |
| Robotic Embodiments âÇô Ultimate IAs | |
| Defining a robotic embodiment | |
| The IA Embodiment Paradigm Explored | |
| Robotic Architectures | |
| Hierarchical Architectures | |
| Reactive Architectures | |
| The Hybrid Deliberative/Reactive Paradigm | |
| Biological and Social Influences on Robots | |
| Swarming âÇô what animals can teach us. | |
| Robotic Simulation | |
| Overall Evaluation of an IA Embodiment | |
| Interdisciplinary Cross-Roads: Where Biology Meets Technology | |
| Summing Up: a Review of Chapter 13 | |
| Conclusion: Where We Go From Here | |
| The Benefits of Cognitive Science | |
| Issues in Cognitive Science | |
| The Dynamical Systems Approach | |
| Dynamical Representation | |
| Dynamical vs. Classical Cognitive Science | |
| Evaluating the Dynamical Perspective | |
| Integrating Cognitive Science | |
| The Future | |
| Interdisciplinary Crossroads: Multiple Approaches to Levels of Explanation in Cognitive Science | |
| Summing Up: a Review of Chapter 14 | |
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