ISBN-13: 9780805842531 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 174 str.
ISBN-13: 9780805842531 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 174 str.
Understanding cognition is a central goal for psychology. It is also studied in computer science, where the goal is to develop design principles for artificial intelligence agents. Finally, many researchers in the neurosciences seek to understand how the brain produces the mind. Exploring human cognition, this work is an attempt to state what is now understood and not understood about the mind as a result of efforts in all three of these disciplines.
This is an introduction to cognitive science intended for use as a textbook for advanced undergraduate and/or graduate-level courses. In it, the author presents the major experiments and theoretical arguments in cognitive psychology in some detail. Where appropriate, alternative theoretical arguments are offered, and in some cases the author explains that there are interesting questions to which psychologists do not yet have the answers.
This book is packaged in an innovative manner. The 170-page printed textbook is actually a précis of a much longer manuscript, which is produced in the form of a CD-ROM bound into the back of the book. Each chapter of the précis references the more detailed coverage and full-color illustrations which are contained on the CD-ROM, which is provided for readers who wish to delve more deeply into the material.