Cognitive Science is a new interdisciplinary area including cognitive psychology, neuroscience, computer science, linguistics and philosophy.
In Frontiers of Cognitive Science authors from a range of backgrounds have been encouraged to present up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of a central area of current research interest.
New applied areas and emerging topics showing special promise will be particularly useful to researchers and graduate students wishing to access a new topic in this exciting field.
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By Scott Freundschuh, NATIONAL UNIV OF IRELAND
October 12, 2015
This important work brings together international academics from a variety of disciplines to explore the topic of spatial cognition on a 'geographic' scale. It provides an overview of the historical origins of the subject, a description of current debates and suggests directions for future research....
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By Axel Cleeremans, Robert French
June 23, 2015
Can you learn without knowing it? This controversial and much debated question forms the basis of this collection of essays as the authors discuss whether the measurable changes in behaviour that result from learning can ever remain entirely unconscious. Three issues central to the topic of ...
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By Philip Van Loocke
December 01, 2014
The Nature of Concepts examines a central issue for all the main disciplines in cognitive science: how the human mind creates and passes on to other human minds a concept. An excellent cross-disciplinary collection with contributors including Steven Pinker, Andy Clarke and Henry Plotkin....
By Jean-Pierre Malrieu
May 01, 2013
Evaluation, from connotations to complex judgements of value, is probably the most neglected dimension of meaning. Calling for a new understanding of truth and value, this book is a comprehensive study of evaluation in natural language, at lexical, syntactic and discursive levels. Jean Pierre ...
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By Ray Crozier, Joseph G. Johnson, Ola Svenson
December 08, 2012
This book offers an exciting new collection of recent research on the actual processes that humans use when making decisions in their everyday lives and in business situations. The contributors use cognitive psychological techniques to break down the constituent processes and set them in their ...