Cognition and perception : How do psychology and neural science inform philos…

An argument that there are perceptual mechanisms that retrieve information in cognitively and conceptually unmediated ways and that this sheds light on various philosophical issues. In Cognition and Perception, Athanassios Raftopoulos discusses the cognitive penetrability of perception and claims that there is a part of visual processes (which he calls “perception”) that results in repre…

Perception, cognition, and language :essays in honor of Henry and Lila Gleitman

"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Dolphin communication and cognition : past, present, and future

"Dolphin researchers have collected an impressive amount of data over the last twenty years, thanks to advances in technology for monitoring, recording, and analyzing dolphin behavior as well as increasing interest in exploring and modeling dolphins' cognitive capacities. This volume offers a comprehensive reference to the latest research on dolphin communication and cognition, reporting on fin…

An invitation to cognitive science Volume 2 : Visual Cognition

An Invitation to Cognitive Science provides a point of entry into the vast realm of cognitive science, offering selected examples of issues and theories from many of its subfields. All of the volumes in the second edition contain substantially revised and as well as entirely new chapters.Rather than surveying theories and data in the manner characteristic of many introductory textbooks in the f…

The Feeling Body: Affective Science Meets the Enactive Mind

In The Feeling Body, Giovanna Colombetti takes ideas from the enactive approach developed over the last twenty years in cognitive science and philosophy of mind and applies them for the first time to affective science -- the study of emotions, moods, and feelings. She argues that enactivism entails a view of cognition as not just embodied but also intrinsically affective, and she elaborates on …

The Brain's Representational Power: On Consciousness and the Integration of M…

Although science has made considerable progress in discovering the neural basis of cognition, how consciousness arises remains elusive. In this book, Pennartz analyzes which aspects of conscious experience can be peeled away to access its core: the relationship between brain processes and the qualitative nature of consciousness. Pennartz traces the problem back to its historical foundations and…

Brainstorms :philosophical essays on mind and psychology

"A Bradford book."This collection of 17 essays by the author offers a comprehensive theory of mind, encompassing traditional issues of consciousness and free will. Using careful arguments and ingenious thought-experiments, the author exposes familiar preconceptions and hobbling institutions.This collection of 17 essays by the author offers a comprehensive theory of mind, encompassing traditiona…

Metacognition: Knowing about Knowing

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Embodiment enaction and culture investigating the constitution of the shared …

The first interdisciplinary investigation of the cultural context of enactive embodiment, offering perspectives that range from the neurophilosophical to the anthropological."The book brings together new contributions by some of the most renowned scholars in the field and the latest results from up-and-coming researchers. The contributors explore conceptual foundations, drawing on work by Husse…

Feeling extended : sociality as extended body-becoming-mind

Within the Extended Mind Thesis (EMT) debate Robinson explores the world of affect and conation as intermediate realms of human being between the physical movements of 'body' and the qualitative movements of 'mind', and shows that affect is not only always in the process of becoming conation, but that affect is transcranial, and tends to become interpersonal conation. Affective-becoming-conativ…