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Table of Contents Preface Introduction Chapter 1: BEGINNING CONCETPS 1.1 Many Paths to the Same Summit 1.2 The Origins of Cognitive Science 1.2.1 Philosophy and the Mysterious Mind 1.2.2 Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology 1.2.3 The Origins of Experimental Psychology 1.2.4 The Revolution in Linguistics 1.2.5 The Origins of Artificial Intelligence 1.2.6 The Advent of Connectionism 1.2.7 Joining Forces 1.3 Brains vs. Programs 1.3.1 The Priacy of Neuroscience: Reductionism and Eliminativism 1.3.2 The Primacy of Computer Science: the Brain as Computer 1.3.3 The Priacy of Cognitive Psychology: Multiple Realizability 1.3.4 The De Facto Unity of Cognitive Science 1.3.5 The Role of Philosophers in Cognitive Science 1.3.5.1 Separatism 1.3.5.2 Naturalized Philosophy 1.4 The Representational Theory of Mind and Theories of Mental Representation 1.4.1 The Representational Theory of Mind 1.4.2 Theories of Mental Representation 1.4.2.1 A Minimal Analysis of Mental Representation 1.4.2.2 Resemblance Theories of Mental Representation 1.4.2.3 Causal Covariation Theories of Mental Representation 1.4.2.4 Internal Role Theories of Mental Representation 1.5 Conclusion: Seeing the Whole Elephant Chapter 2: WINDOWS ON THE BRAIN AND MIND 2.1 What Are You? 2.2 Inside the Brain 2.2.1 Neuroanatomy 2.2.2 Neurophysiology 2.3 Cognitive Psychology 2.3.1 Reaction Times 2.3.2 Recall Scores 2.3.3 Con trolls and Statistics 2.4 Cognitive Neuroscience 2.4.1 Neuropsychology 2.4.2 Functional Neuroimaging 2.5 Computer Science 2.5.1 Production Systems and Expert Systems 2.5.2 The Return of Connectionism 2.6 The Brain Revisited 2.6.1 Perception/Action Cycles 2.6.2 Localization of Function 2.6.3 Topographic Maps 2.6.4 Neurons and How They Communicate Chapter 3: PERCEPTION 3.0 Introduction 3.1 The Neurophysiology of the Senses 3.1.1 The Neurophysiology of Vision 3.1.2 The Neurophysiology of Hearing 3.2 Sensory Memory in Vision and Audition 3.3 Visual Object Recognition 3.3.1 Viewpoint-Independent Theories of Visual Object Recognition 3.3.2 Viewpoint-Dependent Theories of Object Recognition 3.4 Filling in the Eye¿s Blind Spot 3.5 Classical Philosophical Theories of Perception 3.5.1 Directness and Indirectness 3.5.2 Realism and Idealism 3.5.3 Direct Realism 3.5.4 Indirect Realism 3.5.5 Direct Realism Revisited 3.5.6 Idealism 3.6 Color Perception 3.7 The Theory-Ladenness of Perception 3.8 Perceptual Plasticity 3.9 The Concept of Feedback 3.10 Computational Vision 3.11 Neuropsychology and Perceptual Disorders 3.11.1 Prosopagnosia 3.11.2 Phantom Limbs Chapter 4: THOUGHT: Memory, Reasoning, and Knowledge 4.1 Introduction 4.2 The Science of Memory 4.2.1 Declarative Memory 4.2.1.1 Short-Term Memory 4.2.1.1.1 The Phonological Loop Subsystem 4.2.1.1.2 Short-Term Visuo-Spatial Memory 4.2.1.2 Long-Term Declarative Memory 4.2.1.2.1 Episodic and Semantic Memory 4.2.1.2.2 The Cellular Bases of Information Storage 4.2.1.3 Confabulation About Memory 4.2.1.4 Frames and Other Large Knowledge Structures 4.2.2 Procedural Memory 4.3 Reasoning 4.3.1 Monotonic Reasoning 4.3.1.1 Deduction 4.3.1.2 Imagistic Inference 4.3.2 Non-Monotonic Reasoning 4.3.2.1 Inductive Inference 4.3.2.2 Abductive Inference 4.3.2.3 Analogical Inference 4.4 The Philosophy of Knowledge 4.4.1 Epistemology 4.4.1.1.1 The Senses of ¿Know¿ 4.4.1.1.2 Kinds of Propositional Knowledge: A Priori and A Posteriori 4.4.1.2 What is Knowledge? 4.4.1.3 Skeptical Challenges 4.4.1.4 Justifying Empirical Knowledge: Theories of Justification 4.4.1.4.1 Foundationalism 4.4.1.4.2 Coherentism 4.4.1.4.3 Reliabilism 4.4.2 The Philosophy of Science 4.4.2.1 The Influence of Logical Positivism 4.4.2.1.1 The Hypothetico-Deductive Model of Theory Development 4.4.2.1.2 The D-N Model of Explanation 4.4.2.2 Kuhn: Revolutions and Paradigms Chapter 5: ACTION AND EMOTION 5.0 Action 5.1 Action and the Brain 5.1.1 Motor Areas of the Cortex and Their Connections 5.1.2 Motor Control 5.1.3 The Cerebellum and Basal Ganglia 5.1.4 Neuropsychological Disorders of Action 5.1.4.1 Parkinson¿s and Huntington¿s Diseases 5.1.4.2 Apraxia and Other Motor Disorders 5.1.4.3 Alien Hand Syndrome 5.2 Robotics 5.2.1 Agent Architectures 5.2.2 Braitenberg Vehicles 5.3 Free Will 5.4 Emotion 5.5 The Neurophysiology of Emotion 5.5.1 The Autonomic Nervous System 5.5.2 Measurement of Autonomic Activity 5.6 Disorders of Emotion 5.7 The Relation of Emotion and Reason 5.8 Emotion, Cognitive Modeling and Computation 5.9 The Philosophy and Psychology of Emotion Chapter 6: LANGUAGE 6.1 Introduction 6.2 The Philosophy of Language 6.2.1 Truth, Reference, and Sense 6.2.2 Indexicals 6.2.3 Theories of Reference 6.2.4 Quine and Radical Interpretation 6.3 The Neurophysiology of Language 6.3.1 Wernicke¿s and Broca¿s Areas 6.3.2 The Neuropsychology of Language 6.3.3 Disorders of Language 6.4 Language Acquisition 6.4.1 Linguistics 6.4.2 Language Use by Nonhumans 6.4.3 The Connectionist Challenge 6.4.4 Cognitive Linguistics 6.4.4.1 Connectionism and Syntax/Semantics Mappings Chapter 7: CONSCIOUSNESS 7.0 Introduction 7.1 Kinds of Consciousness, Aspects of Consciousness 7.1.1 Creature Consciousness, Transitive Consciousness, State Consciousness 7.1.2 Phenomenal Consciousness: Qualia and ¿What It Is Like¿ 7.1.3 Subjectivity and Points of View 7.2 Is Consciousness Physical? 7.2.1 Leibniz¿s Fnatastic Voyage 7.2.2 Subjectivity and the Knowledge Argument 7.2.3 Attack of the Zombies 7.2.4 Kripke¿s Argument Against Physicalism 7.2.5 Does Consciousness Do Anything? 7.3 Consciousness and the Brain 7.3.1 Binocular Rivalry 7.3.2 Blindsight 7.4 Consciousness and the Representational Theory of Mind
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Cognition.
Cognitive science.
Brain.
Psychology.