Review
"This is the first introductory text in cognitive science that provides comprehensive coverage of the field. . .[it] provides a solid foundation for the beginning student."
—Arthur C. Graesser, Contemporary Psychology --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author
Neil Stillings is Professor of Psychology in the School of Communications and Cognitive Science at Hampshire College.
Steven Weisler is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the School of Communications and Cognitive Science at Hampshire College.
Christopher Chase is Associate Professor of Cognitive Science in the School of Communications and Cognitive Science at Hampshire College.
Mark Feinstein is Professor of Linguistics in the School of Communications and Cognitive Science at Hampshire College.
Jay Garfield is Professor of Philosophy in the School of Communications and Cognitive Science at Hampshire College.
Edwina Rissland is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Lecturer on Law at Harvard University Law School.

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Product Details
Paperback: 544 pages
Publisher: The MIT Press; 2 edition (March 17, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0262691752
ISBN-13: 978-0262691758
Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.5 x 1.2 inches 
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Cognitive Science is a single-source undergraduate text that broadly surveys the theories and empirical results of cognitive science within a consistent computational perspective. In addition to covering the individual contributions of psychology, philosophy, linguistics, and artificial intelligence to cognitive science, the book has been revised to introduce the connectionist approach as well as the classical symbolic approach and adds a new chapter on cognitively related advances in neuroscience.

Cognitive science is a rapidly evolving field that is characterized by considerable contention among different views and approaches. Cognitive Science presents these in a relatively neutral manner. It covers many new orientations theories and findings, embedding them in an integrated computational perspective and establishing a sense of continuity and contrast with more traditional work in cognitive science. The text assumes no prerequisite knowledge, introducing all topics in a uniform, accessible style. Many topics, such as natural language processing and vision, however, are developed in considerable depth, which allows the book to be used with more advanced undergraduates or even in beginning graduate settings.
 
Table of Contents
   List of Authors
   Preface to the Second Edition
   Preface to the First Edition
   Note to the Teacher
1   What Is Cognitive Science?
2   Cognitive Psychology: The Architecture of the Mind
3   Cognitive Psychology: Further Explorations
4   Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge Representation
5   Artificial Intelligence: Search, Control, and Learning
6   Linguistics: The Representation of Language
7   Neuroscience: Brain and Cognition
8   Philosophy: Foundations of Cognitive Science
9   Language Acquisition
10   Semantics
11   Natural Language Processing
12   Vision
   Index