HUMAN COGNITION is organised as a four-part, sixteen session, graduate program on human higher brain function. > The Cognitive System Theory introduced here provides the first fully scientific model of how the hominid brain works, and explains how its two masterstrokes of cognitive development are achieved for each and every one of us in childhood. It explains how the mind originates and develops its power, on the way resolving the 'duality' problem. It explains how cognition is modularly structured and how this system is case-managed under endogenous control. It introduces fresh ideas about...

Volume 1 (of 4) is the first part of Peter G Burton's major 2011 work HUMAN COGNITION. >His cybernetic account of the origin of the mind, and logical explanation of the growth of its empowering repertoire, fills in the understanding missing since four centuries ago, Rene Descartes posed the mind, thought and knowledge as the essence of our being: "cogito ergo sum." >For emerging adults, and many whose busy careers are now the subject of reflection, in either case seeking to understand their own humanity, there can be no better starting point. >Reading level is University/College entry.