Foundations of Cognitive Psychology : Core Readings

by Daniel J. Levitin (Ed.)

• ISBN13: 9780262621595
• ISBN10: 0262621592
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: MIT PRESS

Summary

Scientists from many disciplines, including physics, chemistry, biology, and neuroscience, contribute to the study of cognition. Cognitive psychology, the science of the human mind and of how people process information, is at the core of empirical investigations into the nature of mind and thought. This anthology is based on the assumption that cognitive psychology is at heart empirical philosophy. Many of the core questions about thought, language, perception, memory, and knowledge of other people's minds were for centuries the domain of philosophy. The book begins with the philosophical foundations of inquiry into the nature of mind and thought, in particular the writings of Descartes, and then covers the principal topics of cognitive psychology including memory, attention, and decision making. The book organizes a daunting amount of information, underlining the essentials, while also introducing readers to the ambiguities and controversies of research. It is arranged thematically and includes many topics not typically taught in cognition courses, including human factors and ergonomics, evolutionary psychology, music cognition, and experimental design. The contributors include Daniel Dennett, Daniel Kahneman, Jay McClelland, Donald Norman, Michael Posner, Stephen Palmer, Eleanor Rosch, John Searle, Roger Shepard, and Anne Treisman.

Table of Contents

Preface
Foundations - Philosophical Basis, The Mind/Body Problem	p. 1
Visual Awareness	p. 3
When Am I?	p. 23
Can Machines Think?	p. 35
Neural Networks	p. 55
The Appeal of Parallel Distributed Processing	p. 57
Objections	p. 93
Minds, Brains, and Programs	p. 95
Experimental Design	p. 113
Experimental Design in Psychological Research	p. 115
Perception	p. 131
Perception	p. 133
Organizing Objects and Scenes	p. 189
The Auditory Scene	p. 213
Categories and Concepts	p. 249
Principles of Categorization	p. 251
Philosophical Investigations, Sections 65-78	p. 271
The Exemplar View	p. 277
Memory	p. 293
Memory for Musical Attributes	p. 295
Memory	p. 311
Attention	p. 361
Attention and Performance Limitations	p. 363
Features and Objects in Visual Processing	p. 399
Human-Computer Interaction	p. 415
The Psychopathology of Everyday Things	p. 417
Distributed Cognition	p. 443
Music Cognition	p. 453
Neural Nets, Temporal Composites, and Tonality	p. 455
The Development of Music Perception and Cognition	p. 481
Cognitive Psychology and Music	p. 503
Expertise	p. 515
Prospects and Limits of the Empirical Study of Expertise: An Introduction	p. 517
Three Problems in Teaching General Skills	p. 551
Musical Expertise	p. 565
Decision Making	p. 583
Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases	p. 585
Decision Making	p. 601
For Those Condermned to Study the Past: Heuristics and Biases in Hindsight	p. 621
Evolutionary Approaches	p. 637
Adaptations, Exaptations, and Spandrels	p. 639
Toward Mapping the Evolved Functional Organization of Mind and Brain	p. 665
Language 1 - Language Acquisition	p. 683
The Invention of Language by Children: Environmental and Biological Influences	p. 685
Language 2 - Language and Thought	p. 705
Languages and Logic	p. 707
Language 3 - Pragmatics	p. 717
Logic and Conversation	p. 719
Idiomaticity and Human Cognition	p. 733
Intelligence	p. 751
In a Nutshell	p. 753
A Rounded Version	p. 761
Individual Differences in Cognition	p. 779
Cognitive Neuroscience	p. 817
Localization of Cognitive Operations in the Human Brain	p. 819
The Mind and Donald O. Hebb	p. 831
Imaging the Future	p. 841
Index	p. 855
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