Experienced Cognition

ISBN-13: 9780805817331 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 368 str.

Richard A. Carlson; Marilyn Carlson Nelson

Opis

This volume brings together cognitive scientific research on consciousness and on cognitive skills in a carefully-worked out theory of "experienced cognition." For researchers and graduate students in all branches of cognitive science.

Recenzje

"The book is scholarly, insightful, and contributes to the lively current discussion about the nature of consciousness."
—CHOICE

"This book outlines a bold approach for reconciling phenomenological experience with current theories of cognitive psychology. Consciousness is treated as a useful, indeed critical component of cognition, rather than (as is typical) a pernicious thorn in the side of basic science which can be neither explained nor entirely dismissed. This integration of consciousness is accomplished through an ingenious melding of standard cognitive models with Gibson's theory of perception and philosophical analyses of intentionality. The result impressively illuminates how we might proceed to incorporate subjective perspective into scientifically grounded theories of mind."
—Jonathan Schooler
University of Pittsburgh

"Carlson does a very good job of making the case for why it is important for cognitive psychology to consider consciousness, skill acquisition, and the ecological perspective. This is a special accomplishment when writing about consciousness, a topic on which the writing is so often tangled and impenetrable; here, by contrast, the writing is both lucid and pithy. Although readers may not agree with everything the author has to say, they will certainly be better off for having read it."
—Michael Stadler
University of Missouri

Spis treści

Contents: Preface. Part I: Experienced Cognition: Consciousness and Cognitive Skill. Experienced Cognition and the Cospecification Hypothesis. Consciousness and the Information Processing Framework. Phenomena of Cognitive Skill. Part II: The Structure of Consciousness and the Architecture of the Mind. Perceptual and Enactive Awareness. Symbolic and Representational Awareness. Emotion, Bodily Awareness, and the Unity of Consciousness. Awareness and Nonconscious Information Systems. Part III: Consciousness and Skilled Cognitive Activity. Working Memory: Private Speech and Other Performatory Vehicles of Thought. Controlling Cognitive Activity: Goals and Goal Structures. Causal Thinking and Problem Solving. Belief and Reasoning. Expertise, Skill, and Everyday Action. Practice and Conscious Control of Cognitive Activity. Part IV: Implications. Implicit Cognition and Automaticity: A Perspective on the "Cognitive Unconscious." Toward a Cognitive Psychology of Persons.

O autorze

Richard A. Carlson