Cognitive Science is a single-source undergraduate text that broadly surveys the theories and empirical results of cognitive science within a consistent computational perspective. In addition to covering the individual contributions of psychology, philosophy, linguistics, and artificial intelligence to cognitive science, the book has been revised to introduce the connectionist approach as well as the classical symbolic approach and adds a new chapter on cognitively related advances in neuroscience.
Cognitive science is a rapidly evolving field that is characterized by considerable contention among different views and approaches. Cognitive Science presents these in a relatively neutral manner. It covers many new orientations theories and findings, embedding them in an integrated computational perspective and establishing a sense of continuity and contrast with more traditional work in cognitive science. The text assumes no prerequisite knowledge, introducing all topics in a uniform, accessible style. Many topics, such as natural language processing and vision, however, are developed in considerable depth, which allows the book to be used with more advanced undergraduates or even in beginning graduate settings.
A Bradford Book
- ISBN10 0262691752
- ISBN13 9780262691758
- Publish Date 17 March 1995 (first published 1 May 1987)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 4 May 2017
- Publish Country US
- Publisher MIT Press Ltd
- Imprint MIT Press
- Edition Second Edition,Second
- Format Paperback
- Pages 550
- Language English