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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 interdiscipline that endeavors to understand cognition at a computational level from a variety of methodological viewpoints.
THIS BOOK IS A WORK IN PROGRESS AND IS STILL INCOMPLETE
About This Book
/Approach/
/Study Questions/
/Style Guide/
What Cognitive Science Is
/What is Science?/
/A Brief History/
/Cognitive Science Defined/
/Other Cognitive Levels of Explanation/
Approaches to Cognitive Science
/Computational theory of mind/
/Situated Cognition/
/Embodied cognition/
Methods
/Artificial Intelligence Methods/
/Psychology Methods/
/Statistics/
/Philosophy Methods/
/Linguistics Methods/
/Neuroscience Methods/
/Anthropology Methods/
/Serious Games and Crowdsourcing Methods/
The Architecture of the Mind
/What is an Architecture?/
/Modularity vs. General Purpose Functioning/
/Emotion/
/Non-Emotion Feelings/
/Metaphor and Analogy/
/Cognitive Architectures Implemented As Software/
/Brain Architecture and Processing/
The Evolution of Intelligence
/What is evolution?/
/Kinds of Intelligences/
/Methodology: How Can We Understand the Evolution of Intelligence?/
/A Brief History of Human Evolution/
/Explanations For How Humans Got So Smart/
/Evolutionary Psychology/
Perception
/Perception's Role in Cognition/
/Vision/
/Audition/
/Haptics/
/Olfaction/
/Gustation/
/Vestibular Systems/
/Proprioception/
/Interoception/
/Senses In Non-human Animals and Robots/
/What the Senses Have in Common/
/Synesthesia/
Specific Mental Processes
/What Consciousness Is/
/Psychology of Time/
/Psychology of Pain/
/Philosophical Issues of Pain/
/Dreaming/
/Control of the Body/
/Gut brain/
Memory, Representation, and Learning
/Memory Introduction/
/Human Memory/
/Computer and Software Memory/
/Memory In Distributed Cognitive Systems/
/Kinds of Learning/
/Learning At Different Levels of Analysis/
Reasoning and Inference
/The General Function of Reasoning/
/Categorization/
/Creativity, Planning, and Imagination/
/Biases and Reasoning Heuristics/
/Moral Thinking/
Language and Communication
/Kinds of Language/
/Non-Human Communication/
/Human Language/
/Logic/
/The Language of Thought and Intra-brain Communication/
Development Over the Lifespan
/Brain Development/
/The Nature-Nurture Debate/
/Psychology of Play/
/Acting to Learn/
/Cognitive Training in Adults/
Cognitive Science and The Real World
/How Cognitive Science Can Help You Get Through School/
/Myths about Cognition/
/Cognitive Science in the Media/
/Practical Applications of Cognitive Science/
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