Thomas Hardy Leahey

Fundamentals of Cognitive Science

Minds, Brain, Magic, and Evolution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Fundamentals of Cognitive Science draws on research from psychology, philosophy, artificial intelligence, linguistics, and neuroscience to provide an engaging and student-friendly introduction to this interdisciplinary field. Whilst structured around traditional cognitive psychology, the book also looks at cognitive neuroscience, and magic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 172mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 760g
• ISBN-13: 9780367339166
• ISBN-10: 0367339161
• Artikelnr.: 63657571

Autorenporträt

Thomas Hardy Leahey is Professor Emeritus at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA. He has been President of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology and the Society for the History of Psychology. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and a founding fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.

Inhaltsangabe

1. What Is a Mind?
2. Mind Design
3. Architectures of Cognition
4. Learning
5. Early Information Processing
6. Memory
7. The Higher Mental Processes: Thinking and Deciding: Are People Rational?
8. Cognitive Neuroscience
9. Evolution of Cognition: Human Minds as Adaptations