1st Edition

The Mind in Action A Personal View of Cognitive Science

By Alan Garnham Copyright 1991
142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

Cognitive science – which draws on ideas from psychology, philosophy, linguistics and artificial intelligence (AI) – attempts to explain our mental life within a scientific framework. Its goal is, thus, to remove the last major obstacle to a unified scientific account of the natural world. In this title, originally published in 1991, Alan Garnham provides an invaluable introduction to this... Read more

Acknowledgements.  Preface  1. Introduction  2. The Senses  3. Memory – The Storehouse of Knowledge  4. Language  5. Thinking  6. Learning  7. Action  8. Understanding Ourselves  9. Final Word.  Index

Biography

Alan Garnham is Lecturer in Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex, and author of Psycholinguistics: Central Topics and Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction.