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Autor:
Steven Pinker
When children learn a language, they soon are able to make surprisingly subtle distinctions:'donate them a book'sounds odd, for example, even though'give them a book'is perfectly natural. How can this happen, given that children do not confine themse
New research on different areas of cognition, focusing on language, with contributions that treat topics explored in Ray Jackendoff's pioneering research.This volume offers new research in cognitive science by leading scholars, exploring different ar
Leaders in the cognitive neurosciences address a variety of topics in the field and reflect on Michael Gazzaniga's pioneering work and enduring influence.These essays on a range of topics in the cognitive neurosciences report on the progress in the f
Sensory Experiences: Exploring meaning and the senses describes the collective elaboration of a situated cognitive approach with an emphasis on the relations between language and cognition within and across different sensory modalities and practices.
Autor:
Michael Fortescue
The main thesis of this book is that abstraction, far from being confined to higher forms of cognition, language and logical reasoning, has actually been a major driving force throughout the evolution of creatures with brains. It is manifest in emoti
Autor:
Ken Richardson
For countless generations people have been told that their potential as humans is limited and fundamentally unequal. The social order, they have been assured, is arranged by powers beyond their control. More recently the appeal has been to biology, s
Autor:
Riccardo Manzotti
What is the conscious mind? What is experience? In 1968, David Armstrong asked “What is a man?” and replied that a man is “a certain sort of material object”. This book starts from his question but proceeds along a different path. The traditi
Originally published in 1982, the editors felt that their field was clearly in need of explanatory accounts for many different areas. This volume presents statements of the status of research in several areas by scholars at the forefront of the disci
Autor:
Timothy J. O'Donnell
A proposal for a formal model, Fragment Grammars, that treats productivity and reuse as the target of inference in a probabilistic framework.Language allows us to express and comprehend an unbounded number of thoughts. This fundamental and much-celeb
Autor:
Steven A Sloman, Lance J. Rips
Much of current cognitive science is a debate between two views of thinking—thinking as governed by mental rules and thinking as governed by similarity among ideas. Contributors to this volume explore these contrasting views.Much of current cogniti