Perspectives on Cognitive Science, Volume 2

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Perspectives on Cognitive Science, Volume 2 Theories, Experiments, and Foundations

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Janet Wiles, Terry Dartnall

Book Code: ABP3837

ISBN: 1-56750-383-7

ISBN-13: 978-1-56750-383-8

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Ablex Publishing

Publication: 3/23/1999

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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. Written in clear and accessible language, this is an essential text for courses in Cognitive Science.

Table of Contents:

PART I: FOUNDATIONS.
ntroduction: 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 Renée 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
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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
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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
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