Combining the study of animal minds, artificial minds, and human evolution, this book examine the advances made by comparative psychologists in explaining the intelligent behaviour of primates, the design of artificial autonomous systems and the cognitive products of language evolution.
Cognitive science is defined as the scientific study either of mind or of intelligence. It is an interdisciplinary study drawing from fields including psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, linguistics, anthropology, computer science, and biology. This book presents the research in the field.
Cognitive psychologists are interested in how people solve problems, concerning themselves with the mental processes which mediate between stimulus and response. This book presents the research in cognitive psychology which is a school of thought in psychology that examines internal mental processes such as problem solving, memory, and language.
Explains and critically reviews the competing ways that a social arena can best be coherently described, explained and understood. This book identifies a set of four mutually exclusive and mutually incompatible social-reality dispositions: naturalist structuralism, naturalist agency, hermeneutic structuralism and hermeneutic agency.
This is a practical resource in print and on the internet for undertaking cognitive behaviour therapy with children and young people. The materials have been developed by the author and trialled extensively in clinical work with children and young people with a range of psychological problems.
This work provides a psychologically plausible notion of rationality that is based on heuristics -- simple rules for making decisions using realistic mental resources. It looks at when and how such simple heuristics work, compares decisions based on single and multiple reasons, and describes benefits in situations of having only limited knowledge.
Presents interdisciplinary research in memory, cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, neurophysiology, neuroscience, and neuropharmacology. This book covers developments and pinpoint directions for research on cognitive sciences and theory.
Cognitive psychology deals with information processing, and includes a variety of thinking processes including perception, attention, memory, knowledge representation, categorisation, language, problem-solving, reasoning, and judgement. This book deals with the advances in cognitive psychology.
The 'theory of mind' framework has been the fastest growing body of empirical research in contemporary psychology. It has given rise to a range of positions on what it takes to relate to others as intentional beings. This book brings together disparate strands of ToM research, lays out historical roots of the idea and indicates better alternatives
Challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human. This book argues that what distinguishes us in the animal kingdom is our capacity for recursion: the ability to embed our thoughts within other thoughts. It shows how the recursive mind was critical to survival in the harsh conditions of the Pleistocene epoch.