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The nature of concepts : evolution, structure and representation /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Loocke, Philip R. Van, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Routledge, 1999.
Colección:Routledge frontiers of cognitive science ; 2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The nature of human concepts : evidence from an unusual source / Steven Pinker and Alan Prince
  • The modularity of language : some empirical considerations / Yosef Grodzinsky
  • The perspective of situated and self-organizing cognition in cognitive psychology / Wolfgang Tschacher and Christian Scheier
  • Complex systems methods in cognitive systems and the representation of environmental information / Philip van Loocke
  • Some psychological mechanisms of culture / Henry Plotkin
  • Neural expectations : a possible evolutionary path from manual skills to language / Michael A. Arbib and Giacomo Rizzolatti
  • Is 'mind' a scientific kind? / Andy Clark
  • Evolution and self-evidence / William S. Robinson
  • The development of scientific concepts and their embodiment in the representational activities of cognitive systems : neural representation spaces, theory spaces, and paradigmatic shifts / Markus F. Peschl
  • The concept of disease : structure and change / Paul Thagard.