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The analogical mind :perspectives from cognitive science
Analogy has been the focus of extensive research in cognitive science over the past two decades. Through analogy, novel situations and problems can be understood in terms of familiar ones. Indeed, a case can be made for analogical processing as the very core of cognition. This is the first book to span the full range of disciplines concerned with analogy. Its contributors represent cognitive, d…
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- 0262072068
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- 1 online resource
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Beyond modularity :a developmental perspective on cognitive science
"A Bradford book."Taking a stand midway between Piaget's constructivism and Fodor's nativism, Annette Karmiloff-Smith offers an exciting new theory of developmental change that embraces both approaches. She shows how each can enrich the other and how both are necessary to a fundamental theory of human cognition.Karmiloff-Smith shifts the focus from what cognitive science can offer the study of …
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- 1st MIT Press pbk. ed.
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- 0585020442
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- 1 online resource (xv, 234 pages) :illustrations.
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Language in mind :advances in the study of language and thought
"A Bradford book."The idea that the language we speak influences the way we think has evoked perennial fascination and intense controversy. According to the strong version of this hypothesis, called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis after the American linguists who propounded it, languages vary in their semantic partitioning of the world, and the structure of one's language influences how one understa…
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- 9780262273664
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- 1 online resource (viii, 528 pages) :illustrations
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Language, brain, and cognitive development :essays in honor of Jacques Mehler
"A Bradford book.""Short biography of Jacques Mehler": pages [513]-527.Interdisciplinary essays on central issues in cognitive science. In the early 1960s, the bold project of the emerging field of cognition was to put the human mind under the scrutiny of rational inquiry, through the conjoined efforts of philosophy, linguistics, computer science, psychology, and neuroscience. Forty years later…
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- 9780262272032
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- 1 online resource (xv, 541 pages) :illustrations
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Journey from cognition to brain to gene :perspectives from Williams syndrome
A blueprint for the investigation of neurodevelopmental disorders, this book presents the work of a team of scientists using a multidisciplinary, integrated approach to link genes with human behavior. Using Williams syndrome as a model, leading researchers in neuroanatomy, neurocognition, neurophysiology, and molecular genetics have built bridges between disciplines to link higher cognitive fun…
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- 9780262287395
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- 1 online resource (xx, 189 pages) :illustrations
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Metacognition :knowing about knowing
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262279697
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 334 pages) :illustrations
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Minding minds :evolving a reflexive mind by interpreting others
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262268905
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 215 pages) :illustrations.
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Mind as motion :explorations in the dynamics of cognition
"A Bradford books."Mind as Motion is the first comprehensive presentation of the dynamical approach to cognition. It contains a representative sampling of original, current research on topics such as perception, motor control, speech and language, decision making, and development. Included are chapters by pioneers of the approach, as well as others applying the tools of dynamics to a wide range…
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- 9780262281782
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- 1 online resource (x, 590 pages) :illustrations
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Race in the making :cognition, culture, and the child's construction of human…
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- 9780262275415
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 225 pages) :illustrations.
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The psychology of art and the evolution of the conscious brain
How did the human brain evolve so that consciousness of art could develop? In The Psychology of Art and the Evolution of the Conscious Brain, Robert Solso describes how a consciousness that evolved for other purposes perceives and creates art. Drawing on his earlier book Cognition and the Visual Arts and ten years of new findings in cognitive research (as well as new ideas in anthropology and a…
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- 9780262284059
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- 1 online resource (xv, 278 pages) :illustrations.
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